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Direct Address
Every episode covering Direct Address.
"She’s deliberately making us question those things. She’s deliberately drawing our attention to the making of this story."
— Chas Fisher | DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience

DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience
What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood?
AI✦Mel, Stu, and Chas spend the episode cataloging how filmmakers communicate directly with audiences through meta-storytelling and structural choices that sit outside the story world.✦
Listen if you want to explore how you can make your creative hand visible through meta-storytelling and structural choices!?!
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In our final (ha!) episode looking at Talking Directly to the Audience, we turn away from character-and-text based craft tools to look at other ways that filmmakers - whether they be directors, writers, editors, or anyone else - can make the audience feel their ‘hand’ more. To that end, Mel, Stu and Chas dive into ADAPTATION, STORIES WE TELL and THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION… →

DZ-109: Talking DIRECTLY to your audience
What are the different ways a filmmaker can ask something of the audience?
AI✦Chas and Stu build a taxonomy of direct audience address by isolating four levers: diagetic to non-diagetic, who is talking, whom they’re talking to, and when in time the communication originates.✦
Listen if you've wondered what a character actually wants when they're talking directly to the audience!?
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What are the different ways a filmmaker can ask something of the audience… →
Films:
Fight Club (1999)
, Fleabag (2016)
, The Big Short (2015)
, F for Fake (1973)
, Star Wars (1977)
