zzzzz Flashcards

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Real life transcripts

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are dull, directionless and often incoherent - Sol Stein -go to a supermarket, eavesdrop, most of what you hear is 'idiot talk'

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tidy up all the stutters, false starts, hiccups - edited to sound like 'real speech'

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The book's dialogue was 'written for the eye and not the ear' - he had to reinvent the language

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Two kinds of quarrels - one where you speak and one where you both talk at once. overlapping speech. Uses backslash to indicate speech overlapping. CONSTRUCTED to imitate reality

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'superficially at least, of a devastating naturalness... the vocabulary of real conversation' Early stage work applauded for its verisimilitude - appearance of being real or true. Uses Literary devices such as pauses, repetitions, and linguistic confusions. Highly Stylised - 'Pinteresque'.

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Resembling or characteristic of his plays. Pinter's plays are typically characterised by implications of threat and strong feeling produced through colloquial language , apparent triviality and long pauses.

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appearance of being real or true

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informal or everyday language

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One of the amazing parts of really good dialogue is that it gives you the impression of being in the vernacular without being in the vernacular

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structure, time, theme, plot

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Nick - The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald | Nick is on the periphery of the story - a 'witness' narrator - he observes the actions of others

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Jane Eyre -‘…to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon. Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.’ Opinionated and possibly biased - can be unreliable. Used to create tension in a story.

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the significance of the voice passes on to the characters

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A voice has to be established by the way it uses language and also by the actions the character undertakes

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where/when it was said and also how something is said - the intonation

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Characters often speak in half finished sentences, staccaco

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platitudes, over used phrases, statements

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what the conversation beneath the words is communicating (between the characters and to the audience) Jules Feiffer - it's a matter of understanding what's going on and leaving some of the subtext for the audience to work out for themselves'

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what a character says does not necessarily coincide with what he or she means Annie Hall - dialogue accompanied by subtitles on screen which reveal the characters thoughts beneath the dialogue - what they are really thinking. an acknowledgement of subtext and also a parody of subtext

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There are two kinds of silences. One when no words are spoken. The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed A language locked beneath a speech. The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear

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The writer creates the characters but then the script is handed over to directors, actors to interpret them just as readers interpret a book A writer SURRENDERS their voice to the reader Writers have to allow the actors and audience freedom Readers bring their own experiences and prejudices and personalities to a text