Dialogue and Description
The following is an example from an unproduced screenplay which may give the reader an idea of how a scene without camera angles can be descriptive, and perhaps even poetic, so as to convey the proper time frame (1910) and/or ambiance:
A BUNCH OF GARDENIAS makes a sudden burst of BRIGHT RED. A hand removes each petal—one at a time. The petals fall on the ground. Following the petals-- A part of a woman's SHOE is seen. It is strangely ornate with a shabby heel. Giggles erupt, and the extravagantly painted face of a very young prostitute appears. Her hand is at the arm of a man who is older by at least a couple of decades.Read more about this topic: Screenwriting
Famous quotes containing the words dialogue and/or description:
“The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one’s own growing inner self.... The mind’s dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one’s own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one’s confrontation with one’s own mortality.”
—Harold Bloom (b. 1930)
“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”
—Paul Tillich (1886–1965)