Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast
TV & Film
How can we teach the reader to find the humour in our darkness?
Chas and Stu finally start their long-mooted exploration of tone with a series that examines films and shows with unusual tones and dives into how the writers establish those tones in the first 5 pages.
How does your script want your reader to experience violence in your story? Humour? Sex? Prejudice?
To answer these questions, this episode look at how films with “darker” or “sadder” tones teach the reader what they can laugh at, namely: THE NICE GUYS, THE BANSHEES OF INISHIRIN and the pilot for YELLOWJACKETS.
Together they learn how to better talk about tone, how to frame tone for a scene or sequence, and what levers writers can use on the page to compensate for cinematic tools like music, performance, composition, lighting, design, editing, etc etc etc.
Future episodes plan to explore establishing lighter or quirkier tones, as well as tools in shifting or changing tone on the page.
As always: SPOILERS ABOUND and all copyright material used under fair use for educational purposes.
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DZ-113: Tools for filmmakers to talk to the audience
DZ-112: Breaking the 4th wall
DZ-111: Unreliable Narrators and Fight Club
DZ-110: Voiceover
DZ-109: Talking DIRECTLY to your audience
DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston
DZ-107: Establishing Tone Through Character
DZ-106: How do you know if you have enough story?
DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal
DZ-103: Game of the Scene 2 - Triangle of Sadness, The Favourite
DZ-102: Game of the Scene - Bluey, John Wick 4
DZ-101 Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page
DZ-100: Scenes through Swords
DZ-99: Scene Questions
DZ-98: Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme
DZ-97: Ensembles 2 - Servicing Characters
DZ-96: Ensembles 1 - What do we mean by an ensemble?
DZ-95: Backmatter - Building and Maintenance
DZ-94: Talismans (Part 2)
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