Two emerging screenwriters – Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis – try to work out what makes great screenplays work. Discovering what it takes by analysing what successful writers put on the page.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 days 23 hours 3 minutes
episode 10: DZ-10: Midpoint Reversals and The Ride
How can the middle of your film pivot so much that it pulls the rug out of your audience?
episode 9: DZ-09: Characterising Introductions
Can the introduction of a character be so good that the character doesn't need describing?
episode 8: DZ-08: Status Transactions and the Power of Washing Machines
How does a shift in status or power reveal character?
episode 7: DZ-07: On Rewriting - How much Bull is left in the Hustle?
What can be gleamed from the substantial rewrite of a famed spec?
episode 6: DZ-06: Key Scenes and Unlocking the Story
Can one scene be the key to unlocking the whole story?
episode 5: DZ-05: Shifting audience point of view and heightened emotions
Can forcing your audience to ask questions - and then answering them - trigger an emotional response?
episode 4: DZ-04: Catharsis and the Post-Coital Cigarette
How does the end of certain films make your soul shudder?
episode 3: DZ-03: Making unlikeable protagonists compelling
How do you make obnoxious a-holes compelling?
episode 2: DZ-02: Do the Screenplay Gurus score big at the Box Office?
Do the biggest original films of 2013 follow more archetypal - or formulaic - structures?
episode 1: DZ-01: Do Screenplay Gurus win you Oscars?
Do Oscar-Nominated screenwriters follow the structural formulas prescribed by the “gurus” and books?