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I wasn’t sure where to put this, but does anyone have any tips for writing scenes to be acted out? I have been asked to write a script for a five minute scene (I already know what about,) and am wondering if there might be any more experienced people out there. 🙂 Are there any major differences? Must haves? Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
@jess, I have not written anything as far as scripts go, but I do act, so my best advice is to write natural dialogue, just like when you are writing regular storybook characters, allow the personality and humor to come through the lines, that way the actor can easily get a feel for their character and portray them naturally, if that makes any sense. 🙂
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I’ve written some scripts for my siblings and I. With dialogue, try to picture someone saying it. Preferably the people who are going to be acting the part. Some lines sound cool in writing, but when it came time for them to be spoken, it just wouldn’t work. And it depends on the quality of the actors. There were some things I knew my siblings simply wouldn’t be able to say right, so I wrote the lines around what they were able to do.
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@Jess
I’ve never written a script before, but I act. My advice is to create natural dialogue because that’s all you can write. Script writing in some ways is harder than writing a story because you can’t use any descriptions besides stage directions, though, on the other hand, writing dialogue is the easiest thing to write, at least for me…
Oh, and use lots of stage directions since you can’t write any descriptions. That’s the only way you can communicate what the stage and set should look like and where the actors should be on stage and what they should be doing.
Just out of curiosity, what are you writing a script for? 😉Thanks @gretald, @hope, @christi-eaton. I’m writing the script for a home-school dinner theater production that we are putting on. Someone asked if I could write the scene (from a tv show) and I am happy to do so. 🙂
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Cool! That sounds really fun. 🙂 Let me know how it goes!Good luck! @Jess 🙂
Theater kid. Currently depressed because I can't stop listening to sad musicals.
@Jess You might have already written the script if so how’d it go?
For any future script writing tips reading it out loud is the best help! Then you’ll hear how it sounds and if anything feels unnatural. 🙂
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The person I was doing the script for loved it. 🙂 Thanks for the tips! @rolena-hatfield, @christi-eaton, @gretald, @hope
@Jess Awesome! So glad they liked it. 🙂
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