Exposition is when a character reveals important information to the audience about themselves. But as we all know, just plainly having the protagonist telling us what’s going is boring, so you need to hide it. I find that hiding exposition well in dialogue is a skill that the best screenwriters put a lot of effort into–and so should you! By getting feedback on this assignment you will improve your skill of hiding exposition. And your scripts will certainly get better.
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- After uploading your assignment, expect personal feedback from Mr. McGill within one week.
The Assignment you need to complete to improve from the feedback of Mr. McGill
- Use Final Draft to write a scene where the protagonist orders coffee.
- Think of something you need the audience to know about your protagonist character and write it down.
- Hide that information in a natural way of ordering coffee so that the focus of the scene is the coffee and not the information you really need to convey.
- Send the description of what you wanted the audience to know and the exposition scene
Feedback will at first hand focus on the following features of your assignment
- How well you can hide the information you want in a natural conversation.
About the Tutor
Brian McGill has been a professional scriptwriter for twenty five years and has written for several television series in the UK, including Taggart (Scottish Television), A and E (Thames) and Call Red (Granada) as well as a feature film in France (La Guerre Des Moutons).
He has also been commissioned to write many feature film scripts in the UK, Germany, France, Sweden and the USA (for Phyllis Carlyle – co-producer of Se7en). Amongst several awards, Brian received a Scottish International Education Trust grant (run by Sir Sean Connery) to attend NYU film school in New York. He presently teaches film writing at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and at Örebro University, Sweden.
Reading and external links
Read a film script of your own choice and study exposition!
One Comment
Watch the first episode of Happy Town if you need an example on how bad you can be on hiding exposition.