DZ-05: Shifting audience point of view and heightened emotions

INT. EPISODE 5 – MIDDAY

Can forcing your audience to ask questions – and then answering them – trigger an emotional response?

Stu and Chas delve into audience point of view – not character point of view! Does your audience know more, less or the same as your characters? And does changing this within a scene trigger or heighten the desired emotional response?

To test this theory, we look to the genre that changes the audience’s point of view the most: thrillers. So we analyse scenes and sequences from THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, ZERO DARK THIRTY and ARGO. As usual though, we can’t help ourselves and also consider scenes from GROUNDHOG DAY, PHILOMENA and – of course – Stu refers to STAR WARS.

LINKS

• Reddit: Have you ever rooted for the bad guy? 
• Youtube: Hitchcock on Mastering Cinematic Tension
• Lumina: New Thoughts in Screenwriting Prompted by the Thriller by Stephen Cleary 
• Wordplayer: The Task by Terry Rossio
• PHILOMENA by Jeff Pope & Steve Coogan
• THE BOURNE SUPREMACY by Tony Gilroy and Brian Helgeland – We analyse Pages 1 – 14
  • Youtube: Beach and Goa car chase from THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
• ZERO DARK THIRTY by Mark Boal
  • Youtube: The bomb goes off from ZERO DARK THIRTY
• ARGO by Chris Terrio
  • Youtube: Third checkpoint from ARGO airport sequence

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