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Writing compelling dialogue for film and TV : the art & craft of raising your voice on screen
- Title
- Writing compelling dialogue for film and TV : the art & craft of raising your voice on screen / Loren-Paul Caplin.
- Author
- Caplin, Loren-Paul, 1948-
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- viii, 213 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides screenwriters with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern conversation at a more complex level, in turn allowing you to create better, more nuanced, complex and compelling dialogue. The process of understanding dialogue writing begins with increasing writers' awareness of what they hear. This book provides writers with an assortment of dialogue and language tools, techniques, and exercises and teaches them how to perceive and understand the function, intent and thematic/psychological elements that dialogue can convey about character, tone, and story. Text, subtext, voice, conflict, exposition, rhythm and style are among the many aspects covered. This book reminds us of the sheer joy of great dialogue and will change and enhance the way writers hear, listen to, and write dialogue, and along the way aide the writers' confidence in their own voice allowing them to become more proficient writers of dialogue. Written by veteran screenwriter, playwright, and screenwriting professor Loren-Paul Caplin, Writing Compelling Dialogue is an invaluable writing tool for any aspiring screenwriter who wants to improve their ability to write dialogue for film and television, as well as students, professionals, and educators"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Fade in: Introduction -- Understanding dialogue -- Illuminating character through dialogue -- Types of dialogue -- Voice-overs & narrations -- Platforms -- Tool kit: Writing dialogue -- Tool kit: Writing singular characters -- Tool kit: Naturalistic dialogue, themes & exposition problems -- Accessing character & application -- Better hearing -- Voice exercises -- Fade out: Conclusion.
- Call Number
- MFLF 21-782
- ISBN
- 9780367256876
- 0367256878
- 9780367256869
- 036725686X
- 9780429289156 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000203196 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000203035 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000203110 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020024712
- OCLC
- 1159648971
- Author
- Caplin, Loren-Paul, 1948- author.
- Title
- Writing compelling dialogue for film and TV : the art & craft of raising your voice on screen / Loren-Paul Caplin.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Caplin, Loren-Paul, 1948- Writing compelling dialogue for film and TV London ; New York : Routledge, 2021 9780429289156 (DLC) 2020024713
- Research Call Number
- MFLF 21-782