Screenwriting: Writing Dialogue
This event will take place over Zoom from 1:30pm - 3pm (BST) on 18th September 2022 .
How do you create authentic sounding dialogue?
How do you develop style and character through dialogue?
How do you use dialogue to drive your scene forward?
Content:
• Source material and scene study looking at examples of both naturalistic and stylised dialogue and why they are successful.
• Exercises that will help students tune their ear to the world around them and help them to write authentically for varied characters.
• Exercises on style which encourage writers to use their personal flare to create memorable, quotable lines
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Jessica is a writer represented by The Agency. She is a Royal Court Young Writers and a Bush Theatre Emerging Writer’s alumni. She has an MA in Screenwriting from Goldsmiths University. Her plays are published by Methuen, Oberon and Nick Hern and she is a contributing writer on the Letters to the Earth anthology published by William Collins. She is a visiting lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama and her work has been supported by the Young Vic, National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and The Almeida.
This event will take place over Zoom from 1:30pm - 3pm (BST) on 18th September 2022 .
How do you create authentic sounding dialogue?
How do you develop style and character through dialogue?
How do you use dialogue to drive your scene forward?
Content:
• Source material and scene study looking at examples of both naturalistic and stylised dialogue and why they are successful.
• Exercises that will help students tune their ear to the world around them and help them to write authentically for varied characters.
• Exercises on style which encourage writers to use their personal flare to create memorable, quotable lines
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Jessica is a writer represented by The Agency. She is a Royal Court Young Writers and a Bush Theatre Emerging Writer’s alumni. She has an MA in Screenwriting from Goldsmiths University. Her plays are published by Methuen, Oberon and Nick Hern and she is a contributing writer on the Letters to the Earth anthology published by William Collins. She is a visiting lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama and her work has been supported by the Young Vic, National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and The Almeida.
This event will take place over Zoom from 1:30pm - 3pm (BST) on 18th September 2022 .
How do you create authentic sounding dialogue?
How do you develop style and character through dialogue?
How do you use dialogue to drive your scene forward?
Content:
• Source material and scene study looking at examples of both naturalistic and stylised dialogue and why they are successful.
• Exercises that will help students tune their ear to the world around them and help them to write authentically for varied characters.
• Exercises on style which encourage writers to use their personal flare to create memorable, quotable lines
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Jessica is a writer represented by The Agency. She is a Royal Court Young Writers and a Bush Theatre Emerging Writer’s alumni. She has an MA in Screenwriting from Goldsmiths University. Her plays are published by Methuen, Oberon and Nick Hern and she is a contributing writer on the Letters to the Earth anthology published by William Collins. She is a visiting lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama and her work has been supported by the Young Vic, National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and The Almeida.
We have a limited number of concession tickets available on a first-come-first-serve basis. If you identify as working class, are currently on benefits, or if you consider yourself to be financially disadvantaged in a way that is hindering your progression in your career, these tickets are available to you.
Where does the money go?
Underscore Studios is unfunded and comprised of three volunteers. We believe that upskilling yourself should be affordable, engaging, and transparent. The money towards Workshops such as these means that we can keep them as low as they are, pay our Freelance Workshop leaders, support the organisation to be sustainable, and when we can, make more of our services available for Free.
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We are aware that even the cost of a concession ticket may be a key barrier for many people.
With this in mind, we are pleased to be able to offer 1 Free place on this course.
Bursary places such as these, will be offered on a first come first serve basis.
