Blog post #3

I made a short Google Slides presentation on basic rules for writing dialogue. The rules are framed through transcribing a recorded conversation I had with my sister about the Hunger Games movies. This is a very brief little overview and I do not incorporate any rules on dialogue tags or incorporating dialogue into a larger piece of writing. I imagine this may be a nice little beginner exercise for students who are just learning the basic rules of writing dialogue or need a refresher. I regularly see writing from students where they forget to start a new paragraph or drop punctuation, etc. I initially planned to make a short little video, that would have incorporated more sound and animation, a scrolling text that updates as a new guiding principle of writing dialogue is introduced so the viewer can see in real time how the changes to the text appear, but this became a lengthier and more invested project than I knew how to handle, and I made the switch to Google Slides. A video would have been a lot more visually striking, but I am not dissatisfied with the little video I have produced. What is being visualized in this project is the spoken word as text, more so than a non text visual or the silly renderings of my sister, my dog Boots, or I. Visualization in this project deepens the viewer’s understanding of writing dialogue, as they can see the slow progression towards a product that more clearly shows what is being said and communicated than text without any punctuation, formatting, grammatical adherence, etc. I hope that this comes across in the final cut. I feel like the audio component in conjunction with the text was what really set this apart from just reading the text. I feel like it’s one thing to read about the different kinds of pauses, but seeing them applied to a text, where the text did not previously reflect the pauses in the reference speech, and seeing it grow closer and closer to more accurately characterizing tone and delivery I felt would have been an effective visualizer for learning to write dialogue. I hope that you enjoy!