How to Research Dialogue for Plays

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STEVE CAVERNO: Steve Caverno, on behalf of Expert Village, here to talk to you today about dialogue. One way to learn dialogue is to observe people. Go hang out at different places. Go hang out at a coffee shop and listen to people talk. You might find, in one situation, maybe an older group of people will come in and they'll say, "How are you doing?" and someone will say, "Well." And so that gives us the indication of maybe they're aged. Someone comes in and says "Well." That's very proper grammar, something that maybe--someone who went to grammar school, who is kind of a stickler for grammar. This person could be an English teacher perhaps or something. And then someone comes in and another group says, "How are you doing?" and someone says, "Not bad," or, "Good. I'm doing good," or something like that, then you'll get a clue of who this person is. They're pretty relaxed, they're pretty casual. You'll also get a clue on the basis--on the relationship of these people. Someone says, "I'm not doing bad." That's kind of a casual relationship. If someone says, "I'm doing horrible. I've had the worst day," then this is kind of a friendship. It's a social relationship. It's something where this people feel they can share something with each other; whereas if you're at the office, someone says "How are you doing?" you'll say fine whether you're doing crappy or not. One tool to learn dialogue is--you can carry one of these. If you're sneaky, you can carry one of these in your shirt and kinda record people and then kinda transcribe it later. It's kinda sneaky, I don't advocate that or anything, but if you really want to get some true dialogue, you can always do that. Also, you can kinda talk it out. You can kinda press record on this small tape recorder and you can talk into it and then kinda work out the dialogue that way. These are some of the ways that you can observe people, or you can observe your own voice, and try to learn dialogue that way, try to learn to crack the dialogue.

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