12.31.06
Word.
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The matyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraces; the lovers desperately to fuse their insulated ecstacies into a single self-transcendence, in vain. By its very nature, every embodied spririt is doomed to suffer and enjoy solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies – all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”
-The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
12.07.06
Reflections.
We watched “Autograph Book” last week and it kinda reminds me of my wonderful yesteryears and it feels kind of relaxing just looking back and laughing at yourself.
Growing up is kinda sad. Whatever happened to the rainbow-coloured PaddlePops we kids used to love so much. Back then, PaddlePops were such a luxury. Now when I buy ice-cream, I’d choose stuffs like Cornetto or Haagen Daaz or Ben & Jerry’s. Sometimes I do crave for the multicoloured PaddlePop but then when I go to the Co-Op or the minimart, I can’t seem to find them.
Then just now Farhan, Ying Hao, Jue Yi and myself went to take photos at Chinatown and Arab Street and after the session, Farhan purchased a PaddlePop ice-cream! And this is his comment : It kinda tastes like shit now. How sad. Have we grown so accustomed to better tasting things that we look down on things that were such a gem when we were younger?
I guess that has nothing to do with last week’s lesson.
Notes (Dialogue)
Functions of Dialogue (class contribution)
- Convey message of the story
- Explore the character’s emotions
- Explore the character’s personality
- Creates moods
- Shows the relationship between the characters who are engaged in the dialogue
- Make the film more interesting
Functions of a Dialogue (Ryan’s slide)
- Dialogue reveals character
- Character talks about themselves
- 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, sort of adds a momentum; if a dialogue helps to control the story, then its good
- It conveys essential exposition
- Exposition: information to the audience
- Characters will talk about what happened, establishing the story line
- It conveys essential exposition
- Dialogue ties the script together, another way in which it can make the film more interesting
- BAD DIALOGUE?
- Characters expressing exactly how they feel when they speak
- Sentences with ambiguous meanings
- One-person dialogue
- No-point kind of dialogue
- Having too much conflict/drama. Not too realistic
- Too real: then it’s just too boring.
- Therefore, you would want to write a realistic dialogue
- 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 be used sparingly, never telling the audience what they can see for itself
