Full Metal Jacket

Dialog: moves the story along.

Information = story

Mistakes that often times come up in dialog: 

1. Too much yack yack yack (talking)
2. Monologging: i.e., james bonds where the evil man always monologs before killing james and it ends up bad for evil. 
1. Be careful not to put to many words into your characters mouth. 
3. Make it sound to real: this makes the audience feel like its fake. 

1. Grammar shortcuts and complete information.

1. Don’t use names two often. 
2. Telling me what I all ready know. 

1. Don't use dialog to keep telling what the audience already knows. 

1. Don’t make everyone sound the same. 

1. Education 
2. Culture
3. Accents
4. Age
5. Gender
6. Race.
7. All of these effects the way we sound. 
8. Lingo makes a huge difference in characters. 

Scene:

1. Intro
2. Transfer of information that moves the story forward. 
3. Light bulb: revelation from information. 
4. What’s next: make sure character doesn't say to much at once. Break it up.