User:Bedpanner

My name is Hamish Darby.

I love amateur theatre and like want to develop skills writing dialogue.

I think dialogue scripts can be used for either theatre or film.

Some novelists, like Terry Pratchett, write from a stage point of view so that adaptations of their novels take hardly any adhustment. Virtually complete sets of dialogue appear in the novel form.

CC-BY screenplays are rare, they are easy enough to adapt from good dialogue and make pretty boring reading and poor utilization of wiki space since they tend to use less than a third of the page with speakers lines, while the rest is blank space or cinematic directions.

I hope to collaborate over some comic dialogue.

I have a background in amateur theatre and obseve the following.

DIalogues should be written for one mane for every three women, as this is roughly the proportion in which they are likely to audition. Make sure you have at least eight characters. Amateur groups thrive on production, but you need to introduce enough characters to make a quorum at the theatres committees. epic pieces for few characters like 'waiting for godot' suit roaming buskers but not a thriving committee.

Make it funny.

There needs to be some range of emotions with a happy ending. eg. include a sad bit and a romantic bit.

Optional songs with CC-BY backing tracks and lyrics supplied are the ONLY type to use. Do not force bad reluctant voices to sing if they do not wish. Bands are almost impossible to find and even backing tracks cost money. Take the time to LISTEN to some CC-BY tracks rather than select music you already know, but which is copyright until 2057.

Make several groups of charcters who carry the plot. Dramam which requires the leads to be on stage for every scene will not givethem a break. try and distribute the dialogue across characters, to distribute the load of learning lines.