Naturally, scripts are less descriptive and more directive. Take a moment and read an excerpt from a film or TV script note the way the scene is set up ( SCENE 1, EXT. Scene changes for TV and film are not the same as for books. Many authors attempt this drama unnecessarily in their fiction, often with words like “suddenly”, “shockingly” and “angrily”. Note the dramatic, weighty pauses in-between lines, or the pause while the camera pans over the actor’s shocked face.
In general, soap opera dialogue is dramatic, quick-paced and not how people talk at all.
“She married her own brother? Never! How could she! Gasp! Splutter!” is the kind of overblown reaction you would come to expect from a soap opera scene, and we’d be kind to say it’s the kind of thing that should generally stay there. Soap operas are melodramatic and over-driven.
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