Editing Screenwriting (section)

==Dialogue and description==

===Imagery===
Imagery can be used in many metaphoric ways. In ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)|The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'', the title character talked of wanting to close the door on himself sometime, and then, in the end, he did. [[Pathetic fallacy]] is also frequently used; rain to express a character feeling depressed, sunny days promote a feeling of happiness and calm. Imagery can be used to sway the emotions of the audience and to clue them in to what is happening.

Imagery is well defined in ''[[City of God (2002 film)|City of God]]''. The opening image sequence sets the tone for the entire film. The film opens with the shimmer of a knife's blade on a sharpening stone. A drink is being prepared, The knife's blade shows again, juxtaposed is a shot of a chicken letting loose of its harness on its feet. All symbolising 'The One that got away'. The film is about life in the favelas in Rio - sprinkled with violence and games and ambition.

===Dialogue===
Since the advent of [[sound film]], or "talkies", dialogue has taken a central place in much of mainstream cinema. In the cinematic arts, the audience understands the story only through what they see and hear: action, music, sound effects, and dialogue. For many screenwriters, the only way their audiences can hear the writer's words is through the characters' dialogue. This has led writers such as [[Diablo Cody]], [[Joss Whedon]], and [[Quentin Tarantino]] to become well known for their dialogue—not just their stories.

[[Bollywood]] and other Indian film industries use separate dialogue writers in addition to the [[screenplay writer]]s.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/dialogues-and-screenplay-separated-at-birth-abbas-tyrewala/story-EfS1ol8YDFZ6dTv6XnyqGJ.html |title=Dialogues and screenplay, separated at birth: Abbas Tyrewala |last=Tyrewala |first=Abbas |date=2014-12-11 |work=[[Hindustan Times]] |access-date=2019-08-09 |author-link=Abbas Tyrewala |archive-date=2019-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530160618/https://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/dialogues-and-screenplay-separated-at-birth-abbas-tyrewala/story-EfS1ol8YDFZ6dTv6XnyqGJ.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Plot===
{{See also|Act structure}}
Plot, according to Aristotle's ''[[Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]]'', refers to the sequence events connected by cause and effect in a story. A story is a series of events conveyed in chronological order. A plot is the same series of events deliberately arranged to maximize the story's dramatic, thematic, and emotional significance. [[E.M.Forster]] famously gives the example "The king died and then the queen died" is a story." But "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Forster |first1=E. M. |title=Aspects of the Novel |date=1927 |publisher=Mariner Books |location=UK |isbn=978-0156091800 }}</ref> For [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]] this is best summarized as a series of events connected by either the word "therefore" or the word "however".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2014/03/06/writing-advice-from-south-parks-trey-parker-and-matt-stone/|title=Writing Advice from South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone|last=Studio|first=Aerogramme Writers'|date=2014-03-06|website=Aerogramme Writers' Studio|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-25|archive-date=2019-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915144210/http://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2014/03/06/writing-advice-from-south-parks-trey-parker-and-matt-stone/|url-status=live}}</ref>