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:
“When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.”
—Ernest Becker (1924–1974)
“As they are not seen on their way down the streams, it is thought by fishermen that they never return, but waste away and die, clinging to rocks and stumps of trees for an indefinite period; a tragic feature in the scenery of the river bottoms worthy to be remembered with Shakespeare’s description of the sea-floor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)