15 Tips For Writing Better Dialogue [MASTERCLASS]

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  • @filmcourage
    @filmcourage  7 місяців тому +20

    Which chapter was most helpful to you?

    • @ryanhowell4492
      @ryanhowell4492 7 місяців тому +3

      51:42

    • @samphelps856
      @samphelps856 7 місяців тому +7

      That's like asking which Ice Cream flavour do want when there's 50 and you want all of them.

    • @MrEmanuelThomas
      @MrEmanuelThomas 7 місяців тому +1

      Each chapter offers equal and significant insight on the various mechanics of dialogue 🤌🏾

    • @cliffsofmoherfilmreviews
      @cliffsofmoherfilmreviews 7 місяців тому

      Unique characters

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому +1

      @@samphelps856 We'll start with Reese's Peanut Butter Cup

  • @MaxChina3
    @MaxChina3 7 місяців тому +29

    I love how you stitched all these snippets together! Film Courage is such a great resource for creative writers!

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому +3

      Thank you so much Max! This one was long overdue. We’re glad to be able to share it.

  • @wexwuthor1776
    @wexwuthor1776 7 місяців тому +40

    Film Courage, I hope you guys look back with pride at all the years you've been accumulating this wisdom.

    • @GonzPaoli
      @GonzPaoli 4 місяці тому

      YES!! ❤❤❤

  • @TheMightyPika
    @TheMightyPika 7 місяців тому +28

    Whoever edited this deserves a raise.

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому +3

      🙏 🙏 That would be great!

  • @Elassyahmed
    @Elassyahmed 7 місяців тому +12

    Can't imagine the amount of effort it took to put this together. A sincere thank you

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому +3

      We appreciate it. Thank you! It does take a good amount of work to put these together. Some of these interviews go back 10 years, haha. Hope we can help storytellers tell better stories. Cheers!

  • @nortonwedge
    @nortonwedge 6 місяців тому +4

    This is an amazing super cut, thank you! :)

  • @Tom_Roberts
    @Tom_Roberts 3 місяці тому

    I've watched this through twice - some great tips. Great work putting this together - thank you.

  • @michaelott55
    @michaelott55 7 місяців тому +1

    These recent compliation videos are amazing

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому

      Thank you so much Michael! We put a lot of work into these. Here are some of our previous ones - tinyurl.com/4btu2j7b

  • @cliffsofmoherfilmreviews
    @cliffsofmoherfilmreviews 7 місяців тому

    This is litteral the best video on UA-cam about advice on dialogue. It's helped me so much. I didn't know half of this stuff before I watched it . Thank you Film Courage 👍😁. The other videos on UA-cam about it act like you nearly already know how to do dialogue and your watching it for a few little tips. It's so annoying. Thanks for going indepth on it and then doing a bit of a overview at the end. Thanks for giving everything you need to know in just the right amount of detail.

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому +1

      Thank you so much! We appreciate you saying that you didn't know half this stuff. It takes a lot to say that. Our aim is to provide as much value as we can. Can't say this one covers it all as there's always more to learn. Our best to you and your work!

  • @leebishop7591
    @leebishop7591 7 місяців тому +10

    This channel has made me rewrite my characters, scripts and stories so many times...😆 Thank you...🙏🏽

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому +2

      Great that you see that as a positive and that you embrace the work Lee!

    • @thecollective1584
      @thecollective1584 7 місяців тому

      Absolutely.
      I have been writing since I was seven. I decided it was time to get into movies and wrote a 142 page tretise on "How to Write the Crappiest Script Ever".
      I was cruising through UA-cam and FC rolled past.
      A bunch of lessons, six or eight months, and a ton of blood-letting later, I have a script that is 108 pages, more focused, and with more punch that I am willing to show someone. I still have no plans on trying to sell it, but thanks to FC I'm not embarrased to talk about it.

    • @naturalwayfilms
      @naturalwayfilms 7 місяців тому

      @@thecollective1584 A book in film school for screenwriting shorts is "Writing short Films" by Linda J. Cowgill. That tends to be what they give for new writers. It doesn't cost much either.

    • @martaferguson-dun645
      @martaferguson-dun645 3 місяці тому

      I've tweaked my dialogue & parts of feature scripts with your help, FC. Best interviews & interviewer in the biz.

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  3 місяці тому

      @@martaferguson-dun645 Cheers Marta! Love to hear that! Our best to you and your work!

  • @ajish4377
    @ajish4377 7 місяців тому

    Thanks!

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому

      AJ! Thank you so much! We put a lot of work into these videos and we are always humbled to be rewarded. Thank you for giving back.

  • @geoff1391
    @geoff1391 6 місяців тому

    Amazing video. Extremely helpful for my writing process. Thank you so much!

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  6 місяців тому

      Thank you Geoff! Hopefully this video will be here whenever you need it again.

  • @Quantumfuturestrader
    @Quantumfuturestrader 3 місяці тому

    I read so much dialogue that is so static or correct. i have an italian character in one of my scripts I write him how he would speak and why he speaks that way. Its his second language.. I also like in dialogue when someone is thinking or making grammatical mistakes, stuttering. or correcting themselves as we do has humans. I love writing dialogue . Oh and subtext is key in my opinion as I am an actor as well, I am always constructing that in my analysis.

  • @sasikanthjeyapal
    @sasikanthjeyapal 6 місяців тому +3

    The film channel which I LOVE most....... ❤️from INDIA

  • @Quantumfuturestrader
    @Quantumfuturestrader 3 місяці тому

    Great dialogue is great engagement finding that exreme self in a piece of dialogue my pet peeve if its not there

  • @DoublewideCinema
    @DoublewideCinema 2 місяці тому

    So grateful for this, awesome🌞

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  2 місяці тому

      Thanks! We are grateful to have you watch this one!

  • @NancyMillerIllustration
    @NancyMillerIllustration 6 місяців тому

    So glad I found your channel. Great tips and content ❤

  • @Bat_Boy
    @Bat_Boy 7 місяців тому +1

    I understand Texas Chain Saw Massacre intention SOOOO much better, with all the subtlety, and nuance. 😅

  • @juju10683
    @juju10683 2 місяці тому

    Dialogue is good if your structure and character goals and motivations are known

  • @Khatoon170
    @Khatoon170 7 місяців тому +6

    There are main tips for writing dialogue as I read first should make sound , nature sound like real but polished conversation. Show don’t tell . Use subtext . Use dialogue tags sparingly. Use dialect and accent carefully. Embrace slience avoid exposition very sentences and structures and length. Use contractions . Stay true to characters. Keep it real .

    • @keithg460
      @keithg460 7 місяців тому

      I beg you to rewrite your comment.

  • @samphelps856
    @samphelps856 7 місяців тому +2

    This is exquisite

  • @TumiRoch
    @TumiRoch 6 місяців тому

    Thank you very much.

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  6 місяців тому +1

      Cheers Tumi! You are welcome!

  • @SuperiorPhantom-dx6vh
    @SuperiorPhantom-dx6vh 7 місяців тому +12

    Zack Synder should watch this

    • @wexwuthor1776
      @wexwuthor1776 7 місяців тому +2

      So he can hire a writer? Very good idea.

  • @cliffsofmoherfilmreviews
    @cliffsofmoherfilmreviews 7 місяців тому

    So helpful.

  • @heroireianjo3799
    @heroireianjo3799 26 днів тому

    Ok, I’m going to try to impress anyone who reads this to come read from my Fresh Reads on TVs playlists. I have 4 movies and I’m halfway through releasing my 3 season fantasy project to make after I get the deserving GF. And own the studio and process rbis ok this is my tip. Everything needs to be a reasons to love the product. When your writing dialogue move from one page to the next with one reason to really love the product on EVERY page the culmination of your sitting and then sit back or step aside and plan for what is the next really good reason to love the show. How can I make what happens include a reason to love the product

    • @heroireianjo3799
      @heroireianjo3799 26 днів тому

      I also have sub advice if you are also director… but more so applies to stage direction and set design. Limit your requirements to fill in later during filming and prep your actors to prepare alternate and optional lines for editing stage and the more involvement you have you can write with what’s on the track.

  • @imadivergentandantinormiep7877
    @imadivergentandantinormiep7877 7 місяців тому +4

    English isn't my native language, I'll to be clear.
    In "Yellowstone" there's a scene that I think it's brilliant.
    It's a scene that explains how not to write dialogues on the nose.
    The character Lloyd, an old man, is taking Jimmy to a competition about riding a wild horse. In a few scenes before, Lloyd had said to Jimmy : "You have talent for it" and Lloyd smiled sympathetic.
    Jimmy won the competition and receive as an award a Belt buckle.
    Lloyd amazed and emotional watched the belt buckle, gave a hug with affection to Jimmy and kept watching emotional the belt buckle

    • @keithg460
      @keithg460 7 місяців тому +1

      Please explain. What is so brilliant about it?

  • @ryanhowell4492
    @ryanhowell4492 7 місяців тому +1

    I love it

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому +1

      This one is really good Ryan!

    • @ryanhowell4492
      @ryanhowell4492 7 місяців тому

      @@filmcourage any advice on coming up with a budget before selling my first script

    • @filmcourage
      @filmcourage  7 місяців тому

      Might be best to find someone who has experience with budgets. In regards to budgeting, here are some things to consider - ua-cam.com/video/-8SXQZT0278/v-deo.html and this one you may find helpful as well - ua-cam.com/video/WHUcG8qi6IY/v-deo.html

  • @teletvmoviesethiopia
    @teletvmoviesethiopia Місяць тому

    Thanks From Ethiopia !😂

  • @pascalcooper4518
    @pascalcooper4518 7 місяців тому +3

    What's being said is everything the characters don't say. The dialogue is basically everything EXCEPT what the characters want to say. Unless they're drunk.

  • @hariseldon1977
    @hariseldon1977 7 місяців тому

    In che stato

  • @simonmatuschek
    @simonmatuschek 7 місяців тому

    Billy Wilder wasn't German 😂

  • @ThePaulwarner
    @ThePaulwarner 7 місяців тому

    Sorry but I don’t think the cigarette thing would pass a double blind test, man…. “Filters? None.” Oh wait Tarantino wrote it, so now it’s genius!!!! Sorry I have no filters on this comment. None.

    • @keithg460
      @keithg460 7 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, not the best example. And even if it is, he doesn't explain it well enough.
      The scene is good because of the acting and directing; the writing is secondary.

    • @merkridge8780
      @merkridge8780 6 місяців тому

      The Paulwarner: “Sorry but I don’t think.” Tarantino: “Never?” The Paulwarner: “Ever.” Simple.

  • @HermieMunster
    @HermieMunster 7 місяців тому

    Lots of programs and films could do with following these. Over the years there has been plenty of wooden, stilted, bland, cheesy and generally poor dialogue but recently they have added loads of cringey dialogue as well, I wish they would stop!

  • @PresentFocus
    @PresentFocus 6 місяців тому

    I find listening to screen writers discussing "story" disturbing. To a person, they creep me out. As a doctoral student in a clinical psychology program, I found my professor and his assistant for my human sexuality class were really creepy in the way they looked at us. I have observed the same thing in other individuals. Back to the screen writers. The arrogance and air of superiority is disgusting. Their profession is about jerking peoples emotions around. We are real human beings, not some object to be manupulated.