Speaker: Listen Nelson I need that scene today, I don't care how you want it to look; because it won't look like nothing when nobody wants to buy this movie. Now, go f**k yourself and get me that scene.
Speaker: How am I going to fix this in a day? If I knew a thing or two about making dialogue scenes maybe I wouldn't be contemplating scenes likes this right now.
Speaker: If I knew how to come up with good dialogue I'd have something pretty good to say right about now.
Speaker: Yes, if you knew how, which is why I am here.
Speaker: Who are you?
Speaker: I am the 'IF' fairy. Every time someone says the word if, I appear or if they say riff as in guitar riff, I think they are saying if and I usually will appear when that word is said, but that is simply an auditory accident. Much in the way like you are a sexual accident, your birth, you weren't supposed to be born. Did you know that? He didn't know that did he? I probably shouldn't have said that.
Speaker: So you will help me with my dialogue?
Speaker: Well, yes.
Speaker: Hello.
Speaker: I need that scene in four minutes Speed Nelson or I will eat your testicles.
Speaker: There isn't a sexual harassment fairy, is there?
Speaker: Was your script good?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Nobody read it and it was pure garbage, that's a good thing right?
Speaker: No, but you can fix this by making your dialogue more natural, which is to say somewhat unexpected and random. Practice this by secretly tape recording the conversations of others and then transcribing that into dialogue for a script, because what's better than real discussions between people.
Speaker: Isn't that invasion of the privacy? Hello.
Speaker: The government does it all the time plus if they have got nothing to hide, they have got nothing to worry about.
Speaker: No, that's not even logical. I mean everybody has got something to hide. We have the right to privacy.
Speaker: Yeah, well who has got the tape recorder, see how a conversation drifted off there. That's real, people stopping mid sentence, interruptions that change or completely stop conversations; and conversation is the nice trick to harnessing that natural flow for your dialogue. You can improvise the lines while you are writing and make that the script or you can choose to let your actors improvise while they are shooting.
Speaker: Cut.
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Some of us never leave the set.
Speaker: To make your dialogue scenes more interesting add some action on conflict to the scene.
Speaker: You are running out of time Nelson, I have your testicles on 24 hours surveillance.
Speaker: We have no time man, you must teach me quickly for my balls are in danger.
Speaker: Here are some tips for your actors to digest in preparation for engaging in full dialogue.
Speaker: Faster.
Speaker: One, unexpect the expected. Two, become your character, do not just memorize the lines. Three, live in the scene. For every line get a closeup, medium, and a wide shot as well as another various angels. Get the real footage of any action or indication of conflict that might be important for your viewer to see.
Avoid having your actors step on each others lines, but if they must I recommend getting wireless Lavalier microphones. Always record a few minutes of natural sound while on location and before you go in adding any music or sound effects, listen to your entire project all the way through a few times to make sure that everything sounds perfect. If it doesn't you can play with the levels, make sure it's alright, add effects like compression; but if that doesn't work for you and some audio part is just really horrible, you can always redub the dialogue and then add in that natural sound you recorded before to help smoothen everything out.
Now, you can go on to make movies with excellent dialogue. Remember, always keep your mind open and pay attention to the masters. Look at a movie like Dr. Strangelove; the entire movie runs on its quick and strangely ridiculous dialogue. Now, here are tips from the IndyMogul Forum members.
Speaker: Seventh entity says first time writers tend to have every character's dialogue sound the same. Give one of your characters an accent or speech impediment; that way it forces you to write their dialogue differently.
Female Speaker: Observe and listen to your conversation between two or three people, this will help you learn the basics of a normal dialogue and normal speech.
Speaker: If you want to get involved in next week's episode, head over to the forums or submit a video tape through our submit page. We are going to be covering advance lighting. So bring out those books you have on advance lighting. I guess, you know, have a good day.
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