Dialogue in our Preliminary Task

In this Preliminary Task dialogue was very important, this is because we had a limited amount of time the clip had to last as well as being limited to the amount of speech that could be said. It took us a while to try and think of speech which was funny but also short and snappy so that it did not drag on for ages. The dialogue that we were originally going to get the actors to say ended up being too basic.

Actor one ( Man entering the room) : Are you Jannie? (Whispering in the secret date's ear in a calm voice)

Actor two ( The lady/man sitting at the table) : ( Nods her head delicately)

This then lead to a 180 degrees shot around the room following the footsteps of actor one. This was done so that everyone could see what he was seeing as he approached his date. This worked well allowing suspense and tension as to what he was going to end up seeing.

Actor one: ( Looks vaguely at actor two who is already sitting at the table) Are you Jannie? ( In a curious and very inquizitive tone) The bubbly blonde looking for fun?

We felt that this was funny to watch as the audience can clearly see there has been a mix up, but they are still unsure until it is confirmed.

Actor two: Do I look like a desperate blonde needing love? ( Shoving a name badge in actor one's face, looking very irritated)

There is a close up shot of the name badge showing the name 'Jamie'. This piece of dialogue was said so that a sense of anger could be felt and expressed, as well as embarrassing actor number one.

Actor one: ( Knocks the flowers off the table and stamps them into the ground) And yeah you do look rather desperate! ( Muttering under his breath and storms out feeling stupid )

End of scene.

When we created this dialogue we were unsure of how well it would work in comparison to the acting. When we started filming we realised that is wasn't working very well and didn't sound that good, therefore we let the actors put their own spin on things. In order for them to achieve this we gave them a basis of what sort of dialogue we wanted to include and the type of humour that we wanted to give to our audience. We then told them our speech and let them take it from there, they got into the acting and thought of speech that fitted perfect. The two actors who played roles in this film already had a good sense of humour and naturally knew what to say to make the film appear funny. This made our film a lot more interesting and funny as it fitted in well with the scene.