Dialogue.
What is the difference between a memory and experiences?
Experience is what actually happened
A memory is a biased point of view of what really happened.
Functions of Dialogue
- To express character’s personality.
- How they communicate their emotions.
- Tells the audience of what has or ad happened.
- Reveals new information to the audience
- It expresses the culture by the way people interact with each other
- Expresses time and place (Shakespearean time)

Elements of Dialogue
Dialogue reveals character
- A character talks about him or her
- Other people talk about the character

Is an established relationship between characters?
Character expresses attitudes and opinions that are in opposition to one another.

Elements of a good dialogue

• - Dialogue communicates faces and information to the audience
• - It conveys essential exposition
• - Characters will talk about what happened, establishing the story line.
• - Dialogue reveals plot based information of why and what is going to happen (the audience needs to understand)
• - It can lead from one scene to the next.
• - Dialogue ties the script together. Connects all the details in the movie
• It doesn’t have to be a voice over to do that; it can just be a mere dialogue.

Negative side of Dialogue
- They tell too much
- They are telling the story instead of showing
- When the dialogue is corny
- The dialogues used are too unrealistic.

Common mistakes

• - Dialogue should be used sparingly never telling the audience what they can see for itself.
• - Dialogue is no substitute for action.
• - Dialogue should not match the conventional spoken dialogue “real talking.

Dialogue Exercise
Sarah: look at your watch! Tell me what is the time now! Just look at it! Today is not the only day that you are back late! First it was some problems with your boss, and now you are giving excuses saying that you went out to have drinks with your friends? What is the meaning of this?

Daniel: sorry Hun, it must have slipped my mind. I am sorry! Let me make it to you.

Sarah: excuses! Excuses! Excuses! How long are you going to lie to me Daniel, we have been married for a year already.

Daniel: I am really sorry, you see it is a Friday and my friends and I wanted to chill and take the stress off our back.

Sarah: which cfriends? Is it Rachel?

Daniel: Rachel and a few others.

Sarah: WHAT?? You stood me up for drinks with that conniving devil and her entourage?

Daniel: its not like that Hun, I honestly forgot about out little dinner, I’ll still eat the food if you want to.

Sarah: HOW DARE YOU!!!

Daniel: yes, I’ll eat the food of you want me to, since it was made for me, so technically I have a state in it, I’ll eat it if it makes you happier.

Sarah: you don’t understand me do you??? YOU RETARD!!

Daniel: wait up lady; you said that you stayed home all evening just to cook for me. And now that I am back shouldn’t you be happy that I still have the stomach to eat your delicious pasta?

Sarah: it is not the food damn it!!! God! Daniel, you spend 5 days a week at work climbing your cooperate ladder, and just when we finally have some time to ourselves, you happily forget about having dinner with me. Your wife. That does it Dan, I’m leaving!

Daniel” BABY, wait up!! LISTEN TO ME!!

geez!!! married couples behave like kids. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————

AND this is what usually happens at home.

Mom: Edwards Lee. Look at the time now! Sometimes I wonder whether you even remember that you have a family? Get your fat ass here now!

Dad: I’m tired. Leave me alone.

Mom: leave me alone? What is the meaning of that? Do you know how long I have been waiting? 3 whole hours! Clearly you have forgotten about dinner today. Sometimes I even wonder why I bother to try. It’s a two-way road Edwards, I am trying and if you are not responding. Maybe I should just give up. You went to have drinks with Rachel is it?
Dad: no!!

Mom: then why did you come back so late? How could you have forgotten about our dinner?

Dad: I just had some drinks with my colleges, and I was summoned a ticket for illegal parking, not today lynx. I need a break!

Mom: have you ever thought about this family? All this years it has been you, you and you. It is always about your own agenda, where do you put the family?

Dad: why are you always making this an issue?

Mom: this is the issue! Our marriage, I have a job too, I have responsibilities at work too, am I always the one that is missing? Where have you been all this while, you never talk to your children, you make empty promises. And when you are back you are always complaining and making a fuss. This is it Edwards, this is the END. DO YOU GET IT???

Dad: you always have your way.

Mom: I’m leaving.
Yeah , this is usually what happens in an argument between my parents. And I have to add ; in a situation like this my mom would probably go HYSTERICAL. I am not kidding , its drama in a whole new level, maybe even greek tragedy for that matter.

Well week 7 we watched a short film titled autograph book.

Blast from the past. I mean seriously.

Yes those were the days where our only worries are “oh my! That stupid girl has the same bag as me” or “oh my she spoiled my autograph book because she tore some pages out! ” or even “that girl is horrible! She stole my colour pencils” (my colour pencils were my most valued possession at that time, kinda like how golum held the ring closely to him). We were young and clueless of the vast complex world. And in our own ‘girl world’ we had rules and decorum. The senseless rules that we followed, and how if you were to break the rules it means social suicide. Thank god I survived all of that.

‘Autograph book ‘ depicts the different personalities we see in our school. We, the audience can see the personalities of these people through their dialogue with the protagonist thought the autograph book. Yes I lived 10 years of my childhood and possibly mid teenage hood without the male species. In another words, like the girls in the show, I was from a single sex school. Imagine 10 whole years without boys thank god I survived it without being gay. Anyhow the short film does show the true essence of the different characters we see in school. We have the politically right teachers, where they would bombard us to believing that lee kuan yew is our best friend, and taught us how to strive for success and be that Frodo in our middle earth. We have the cheerleaders the queen bees that rule the middle bench in the cafeteria, most of the time they would survive on a carrot stick. We have the ‘I don’t give no shit about anything’ girls too; in modern context they are simply the emo girls, where they have the whole Goth and ’screw life!’ mentality. And yes, we do have the honor students, the girls who will fervently submit their homework on time, and the students whom I duplicate my homework from. And ahh not to mention the butches.how can a single sex school be complete without them?

I had a mix of friends, being a prefect in primary school ,you had to be everyone’s friend. I mixed with the butches, the sports girls, the queen bees, the teachers of course and a whole slew of other individuals. Life as a 12 year old at that time? Simply thrilling and entertaining.

I too had an autograph book it was green with feathers around the border and my name tastefully decorated in the middle. Honestly, until now, I am sure as hell that it is the best autograph book a 12 year old can ever have. Yes, blast from the past. I don’t think I asked the genitor to write in my autograph book. That’s just weird, but nevertheless it would be amusing though, she would have wrote “oh my you are the girl who have greenish orange poop!” I guess. Hmmm, Maybe by the end of my third year in this course,I shall keep an autograph book. HOW RETRO!!

ORANGE POOP ROCKS