Week Seven Notes
Notes
Dialogue
-The audio part of the film. Or aardio as some people say it.
Portray emotions(express)
Express thoughts
Monologue
Say things on purpose to lead audience on
Build connection with the audience
Defines the characters
Communicate to other characters (indicates msg)
Moves plot forward relations
Communicates message
Elements of dialogue
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.
Good effective dialogue will move the story forward.
Dialogue communicates faces and information to the audience.
- it conveys essential exposition.
- Characters will talk about what happened, establishing the story line.
- Dialogue ties the script together (voice overs)
Mistakes:
- Dialogue should be used sparingly, never telling the audience what they can see for themselves.
- Dialogue is no substitute for action. (IF not there is no point in it being a movie!!)
- Dialogue that creates ambiguity.
- Unnecessary Dialogue ( no difference whether its there or not)
Week 7
Gosh i am really running out of titles aren’t I? I mean i have been reduced to titling it as Week 7…. How pathetic can it get?
Oh well the title is not as important as the content….
Well we watched Two Short Films today. One titled In Transit and the other “Autograph book.”
I did not really get what the movie is about but the effects in it were awesome. I liked the gloomy,dark and eerie effect and those fast cuts were just keeping me on the edge.After ryan explained to us then only did i get enlightened.:D
Autograph book was not too bad… i mean it wasn’t as exciting as the other one but it made more sense. Maybe because i have watched it too many times in Arts central.
After which we talked about dialogue. I feel that dialogue is not really important in a movie at times. I mean a movie is mainly visual and i think dialogues are mainly used when those screenwriters/directors are just too lazy to figure out a way to show the information to us. Thus they throw in a dumb character who will ask thousand and one questions and let the other main characters explain things to that person. I think sadly in a way, we are the dumb fellow and those guys are explaining to us.
These “talking” movies are quite a new thing right? I mean the transition was not too long ago.Silent movies are not exactly my favourite thing… Watching those black and white Charlie Chaplin movies could be torturous at times. Modern day version would be Mr Bean. Watching them the first few times were alright but after a while it gets so predicatble and even annoying at times. He is bound to do something stupid and/or gross in there and he will end up muttering some inaudible and gibberish rubbish to his Teddy. What’s up with that? I wish channel 5 and some other channels in cable would stop showing them and start showing something useful or at the very least less annoying.
Anyway back to my arugment….
I mean i love dialogues.Don’t get me wrong. Its just like they say “too much of a good thing” …. i just hate it when they just put too much dialogues in some movie instead of showing it to us. I mean if i wanted that, i could read a book instead of wasting $9.50 +++ ( money on snack,fare to get there etc..) on that movie.
Though i would say it depends on the genre of the movies too. Dialogues are good for comedies. One example would be keeping mum. It was what i would say a rather intellectual black comedy as it had a lot of puns in it like the Title itself.
Dialogues in an action movie? Its a No,no… i mean imagine vin disel in XXX talking about what he’s going to do instead of doing the actual thing. It would bore us to death.
Thus i conclude that dialogues can be useless at times.. i would rather have more visuals but then again i really depends on the genre as well. hehe!
P.s For those who want more dialogues go read a book and for those who want depressing endings and gore watch the news and save your moohlah!!
Lastly ill end off with this quote:
On cable TV they have a weather channel – 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
– Dan Spencer
I thought this was rather funny and yet very true. Weather channels are really a waste of space in the network i mean maybe put a one liner somewhere or soemthing not have a whole channel devoted to it. Gosh .Ok im ending now i shall debate about the uselessness of weather Channels next week. Man the media have a lot of crap in them.
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