Functions of Dialogue:
- Conveys messages of the story
- Explore characters’ emotions
- Explore characters’ personalities
- Creates moods
- Shows relationship between characters
- Makes the film more interesting
Dialogue reveals character.
- A character talks about himself or herself.
- Other people talk about that character.
Dialogue establishes relationships between characters.
- Characters express attitudes and opinions that are in opposition to one another.
Elements of Dialogue
- Good effective dialogue will move the story forward.
- Dialogue communicates faces and information to the audience.
1. It conveys essential exposition.
2. Characters will talk about what happened, establishing the storyline.
- Dialogue ties the script together.
Bad dialogues:
Wrong sentence structure creates ambiguous meanings
Dialogues that show how they really feel
Common Mistakes
- Dialogue should be used sparingly, never telling the audience what they can see for itself.
1. dialogue is no substitute for action.
