Writing Dialogue for Emotional Impact Online Course – Karl Iglesias
Writing Dialogue for Emotional Impact Online Course
There are three kinds of feelings when reading a script – yes, no, and WOW! Your job as a screenwriter is to create that WOW! feeling on as many pages as possible. But writing authentic, sparkling, well-crafted dialogue that individualizes characters and entertains the reader is the ultimate challenge for screenwriters, who otherwise may have solid script elements, and yet are bound to fail because of flawed dialogue.
In Writing Dialogue for Emotional Impact, bestselling author Karl Iglesias will showcase over 50 dialogue techniques and lots of examples from highly successful screenwriters that turn bland, on-the-nose dialogue into striking speech that snaps, crackles and pops off the page.
How-to books and seminars discuss dialogue superficially, and are more often prescriptive than enlightening. They focus on what dialogue must do but neglect discussing specific techniques on how to do it. Expanding on the essential elements of all successful scripts – the reader’s emotional experience – this 4-week course will analyze great dialogue and offer helpful dialogue rewriting exercises.
If you’re looking to raise your dialogue to professional standards, Writing Dialogue for Emotional Impact is the course for you.
What You’ll Learn:
- More than 45 effective dialogue techniques that will help you turn your story’s dialogue from boring to exciting
- The nine requirements of great dialogue
- The most common dialogue problems found in amateur scripts and how to avoid them
- 15 advanced, effective techniques to create emotionally-impactful dialogue
- 10 techniques for dialogue that individualizes your characters
- How to present information through dialogue in a way that engages the reader
- Nine effective ways to create subtle exposition in your script
- How to avoid “on-the-nose” dialogue and 12 techniques to turn “on-the-nose” dialogue into subtext
Who Should Take This Course:
- Writers of all levels who wish to improve their story’s dialogue and hone their writing skills.
- Writers searching for alternative ways to increase their chances of writing a successful script.
- Students looking for the opportunity to put their dialogue writing skills to the test and receive professional feedback.
Lession Plan:
Session One: Freshness
- Turning flat, predictable, and dull dialogue into sparkling and entertaining dialogue
- What makes great dialogue
- The most common amateur dialogue flaws
- Writing dialogue for emotional impact
Session Two: Individuality
- Developing a distinct voice for each character
- Techniques for character-specific dialogue
- Contrasting dialogue with context
- Contrasting emotional tempos
- Sentence structure for heightened emotional impact
Session Three: Subtle Exposition
- Weaving in information without losing the reader’s interest
- Advanced techniques for subtle exposition
- Using dialogue to foreshadow
- Implying information with dialogue
Session Four: Subtext
- Adding depth, emotion and meaning through “off-the-nose” dialogue
- Advanced techniques for “off-the-nose” dialogue
- Using action instead of answering
- Evading the subject
- Mastering metaphor and symoblism
Karl Iglesias
Karl Iglesias teaches at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, where he’s been awarded Outstanding Instructor for 2010. He is the best-selling author of THE 101 HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SCREENWRITERS, and WRITING FOR EMOTIONAL IMPACT. He also contributed chapters to NOW WRITE SCREENWRITING and UCLA’s CUT TO THE CHASE. A graduate of Cornell University, he has worked as a script analyst and development executive for various production companies. As a script consultant passionate about great storytelling, he specializes in reader emotional response. He can be reached through his website at www.karliglesias.com.
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