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Writing Dialogue for Scripts (Writing Handbooks)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #265578 in Books
- Published on: 2003-03-31
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
This work deals with the media of stage, radio, television and film, giving plenty of practical advice. It includes examples of the most recent scripted dialogue. Chapters deal with how conversation works, naturalistic and stylized dialogue, pace and variation, scripted narration, comic dialogue and presentation. As well as highlighting the ways in which dialogue varies from one medium to another, this work shows how many of the skills of writing dialogue may in fact be applied to all the script media.
Customer Reviews
Gets to the heart of dialogue
This is not a book about screenwriting but a book about dialogue and one which does the job excellently. I heartily recommend this to anyone interested in understanding the way speech works and how to transfer that speech into script dialogue that will come across as dynamic.
Very useful book
This is a great book. It gives great advice on how to write good dialogue dealing with many different styles of dialogue and how it changes between the different mediums of theatre and screen. The writing style is very easy to understand with no jargon being used without being first explained. I started around the same time that I bought this book and can see a clear difference in the quality of dialogue at the beginning and where I am now which shows just how useful this book is. I would reccommend this to anyone wishing to improve their skills at writing good dialogue for scripts.
Really bad
Do not buy this book! It is a waste of money. There are a lot of books on screenwriting. Some are good. Some are bad. This is not a good one. If you are interested in writing film/short films then stay away from this really terrible book. This book is about writing dialouge for PLAYS/not film/not radio. The author writes plays and pretends he writes screenplays. He has only been a script reader. Look, if you want to write plays - then buy this book. But if you want to write for film - do not buy this book!
