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3 Keys to Great Dialogue

If you are going for profound or truly unique dialogue, you’ll love this process. It assists you to get to the essence of the line’s meaning, brainstorm multiple choices, and make the best selection.

In this video, Hal shows the three steps that absolutely must be part of your dialogue process and gives a quick demonstration so you’ll know exactly how to use this on your dialogue.




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How To Get Producers To Love You

Once your script is optioned, you're taking notes, listening to suggestions, and rewriting to fit their needs. How you react to this process either will make you a star or end your career.

M.L. Gimmell has mastered this process as she ghostwrote seven movies, was a staff writer for a hit TV show in Germany, and now has a project set up at Disney...all because of her philosophy of doing business.



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ASK THE READER: How Decisions Are Made

If you've ever wondered how things happen once your script gets inside a production company, this interview will answer those questions.

Hal interviews Victoria Wu - an assistant to a Creative Executive in a major production company in Los Angeles. She shares their process, what makes a script marketable, and what causes her to give a "recommend" to your script.



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Unique Character Dialogue

If each of your characters speak with their own unique voice, producers and actors will love you.

Why? Because unique character dialogue is hardly ever seen by them.

In this video, you'll watch Hal take two bland characters and give them unique voices -- thus elevating the quality of the characters, scene, and the reputation of the writer.



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SCENE ANALYSIS: Character Traits

In this video critique, Hal analyzes a scene by Kevin Miller, whose focus was writing dialogue through Character Traits.

If you want to put more character into your dialogue, this analysis will really help.



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INTERVIEW: Writer / Producer Molly Newman

Writer/producer Molly Newman won an Emmy for her work on "Tracy Takes On" and is currently the Executive Producer of BROTHERS & SISTERS on ABC.

In this interview, Molly tells us the process of writing an episode for B&S. She also shares how to break in as a TV writer, survival strategies for being in a writers room, and the steps to becoming an Executive Producer.

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