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September 22, 2024 5:03 PM
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DZ-113: Tools for filmmakers to talk to the audience
What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood?
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July 31, 2024 12:43 PM
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DZ-112: Breaking the 4th wall
How is the effect of breaking the 4th wall different to VoiceOver?
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July 2, 2024 6:22 PM
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DZ-110: Voiceover
How does the unreliability of a narrator impact the way a story is told?
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May 31, 2024 3:24 PM
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DZ-110: Voiceover
How can you use Voiceover without it feeling like a cheat?
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1:41:22
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May 1, 2024 2:09 PM
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DZ-109 - Talking DIRECTLY to your audience
What are the different ways a filmmaker can ask something of the audience?
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March 31, 2024 10:06 PM
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DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston
How and why should every scene have an emotional event?
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February 29, 2024 11:30 PM
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DZ-107: Establishing Tone through Character
How can we use dramatisation to create tone?
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1:54:18
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December 31, 2023 4:45 PM
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DZ-106: How do you know if you have enough story?
How do you know if you have enough narrative fuel to write a script?
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1:36:12
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November 30, 2023 10:42 PM
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DZ-105: Establishing Tone through Big Print
How can we teach the reader to find the humour in our darkness?
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2:06:08
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November 1, 2023 3:49 PM
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DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the internal
How can scenes where characters are alone increase our connection with them?
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1:29:42
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October 1, 2023 11:35 PM
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DZ-103: Game of the Scene 2 - Triangle of Sadness, The Favourite
How can games elevate dramatic scenes?
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August 31, 2023 3:28 PM
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DZ-102: Game of the Scene - Bluey, John Wick 4
How can ‘games’ help us write better scenes?
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1:23:29
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July 3, 2023 5:29 PM
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DZ-101 Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page
What can we learn by analysing how ‘oners’ are written on the page?
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May 29, 2023 9:02 PM
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DZ-100: Scenes through Swords
What scene work tools can be learned from martial arts?
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1:00:34
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May 1, 2023 12:33 PM
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DZ-99: Scene Questions
How do audience questions shape scenes?
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1:34:42
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March 31, 2023 11:08 PM
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DZ-98: Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme
What effect does adding a ton of characters have on your story?
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2:02:02
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February 28, 2023 11:24 AM
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DZ-97: Ensembles 2 - Servicing Characters
How do you give your audience access to a lot of characters?
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2:22:27
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January 31, 2023 11:26 PM
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DZ-96: Ensembles 1 - What do we mean by an ensemble?
How can the same story feel different when you have more characters?
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1:16:25
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December 31, 2022 6:14 PM
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DZ-95: Backmatter - Building and Maintenance
How do you maintain hope in the face of, er, screenwriting?
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1:16:49
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November 30, 2022 11:23 PM
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DZ-94 Talismans (Part 2)
How can you use physical objects to track character change… wordlessly?
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October 31, 2022 7:22 PM
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DZ-93: Talismans (Part 1)
How can you use physical objects to reveal inner character?
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1:37:44
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September 29, 2022 10:38 PM
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DZ-92: Insightful recognition in powerful endings
How can endings prompt an audience to reflect on your story?
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1:26:05
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August 31, 2022 2:00 PM
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DZ-91: Raising (different kinds of) Stakes
How can you keep your audience hooked when they know the end of the story?
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2:19:44
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July 27, 2022 11:25 AM
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DZ-90: Setups & Payoffs in Everything Everywhere All At Once
How can you use setups and payoffs to stitch your film together?
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1:30:53
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May 31, 2022 2:08 PM
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DZ-89: Opening Sequences
How does your opening sequence set up your audience?
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1:48:08
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May 1, 2022 10:50 AM
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DZ-88: Drama in genre clothing - Hustlers, Pig, and The Power of the Dog
How can dramas use genre elements to hook their audiences?
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2:06:32
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March 28, 2022 1:27 PM
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DZ-87: Keeping genre fresh - Get Out, Promising Young Woman, and The Invisible Man
How do you deliver on the emotional contract of a genre while surprising the audience?
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2:13:12
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February 1, 2022 8:03 PM
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DZ-86: Backmatter – Minimum Viable Product
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1:29:46
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November 17, 2021 11:10 PM
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DZ-85: Choices & Decision 2 - The Farewell & Wrath of Man
What is difference between choice and decision when it comes to audience experience?
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1:49:22
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October 30, 2021 6:33 PM
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DZ-84: Choices & Decision 1 - Booksmart
What is the difference between choice and decision when it comes to characters?
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1:12:37
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September 8, 2021 3:14 PM
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DZ-83: A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!
What can screenwriters learn from the storytelling techniques used by stand-up comedians?
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2:31:36
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August 18, 2021 6:30 PM
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DZ-82: Dramatising Given Circumstances in Watchmen
How can writers dramatise Given Circumstances?
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2:06:10
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June 30, 2021 11:39 PM
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DZ-81: Pitch Decks & Look Books - Development Tools 4
How do you make effective pitch decks and look books for your projects?
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1:13:22
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June 1, 2021 12:46 AM
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DZ-80: Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women
How can interweaving timelines elevate the emotional experience for the audience?
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2:11:24
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May 1, 2021 12:49 AM
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DZ-79: Interweaving Timelines 2 - The Social Network
How can interweaving two timelines change how we feel about a character?
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1:37:28
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April 1, 2021 11:49 PM
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DZ-78: Interweaving Timelines 1 - Destroyer
How does interweaving two timelines change how the audience feel?
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1:42:37
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February 28, 2021 8:10 PM
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DZ-77: Backmatter - Prioritising and choosing projects
How do you choose which project to start next?
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1:36:40
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February 1, 2021 6:05 PM
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DZ-76: Spotlight on Sofia Coppola
What can we learn from Sofia Coppola’s on-the-page skills over her career?
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1:54:23
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December 31, 2020 1:08 PM
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DZ-75: Fury Road & Visual Storytelling
How can you do powerful storytelling... without dialogue?
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1:09:27
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December 1, 2020 2:55 PM
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DZ-74: Midsommar & Folk Horror
What can we learn from folk horror?
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2:01:42
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October 21, 2020 9:41 PM
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DZ-73: Selling documents - Development Tools 3
How do I write selling documents differently to development documents?
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0:39:09
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September 28, 2020 6:49 PM
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DZ-72: Theme & The Story Synopsis – Development Tools 2
How can I develop my theme without writing script pages?
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1:00:24
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September 1, 2020 12:35 PM
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DZ-71: Treatments & Loglines - Development Tools
How can I develop my plot before writing the screenplay?
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1:26:45
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July 23, 2020 8:41 PM
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DZ-70: Joker & Melodrama
How does Joker use melodramatic techniques to elevate its storytelling?
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1:36:16
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June 10, 2020 8:04 PM
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DZ-69: Parasite & Audience Questions
How can you use audience questions to heighten emotional investment?
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1:22:52
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May 18, 2020 12:15 AM
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DZ-68: Using POV to structure KNIVES OUT
How can shifting narrative point of view drive your sequences?
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1:32:41
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April 30, 2020 8:55 PM
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DZ-67: Writing “Passive” Protagonists & Melodrama
How do I tell a powerful story where the protagonist cannot drive the plot?
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2:58:25
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April 7, 2020 9:04 PM
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DZ LiVEsolation Annoucement
How does Draft Zero cope with lockdown?
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March 17, 2020 6:00 PM
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DZ-66: The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker - Audience Knowledge vs Character Motivation
How does audience knowledge affect your character’s motivations?
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1:45:10
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February 14, 2020 5:37 PM
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DZ-65: Collaborating with a Director - The Snip
What changes in your writing and development when collaborating with a director?
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1:03:09
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January 30, 2020 9:39 PM
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DZ-64: Backmatter - Controlling your Work, Treatments, and Writing Styles
What can and should you do next?
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1:42:28
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December 31, 2019 4:54 PM
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DZ-63: Tools for Better Dialogue (Part 2) - Hook and Eye
How can you create flow and contrast in your dialogue?
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1:58:24
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December 2, 2019 10:09 PM
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DZ-62: Unfilmables and Unscriptables (Part 3) - As Ifs & Emotional context
How do you know if your unfilmable is good... or if you’re just being a wanker?
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2:17:13
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September 25, 2019 7:12 PM
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DZ-61: Unfilmables and Unscriptables (Part 2) - Moments of Awe
How can unfilmables help you create those cinematic moments of awe?
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2:05:45
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August 7, 2019 1:42 PM
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DZ-60: Unfilmables and Unscriptables (Part 1) - Engaging imagination
How can unfilmables enhance the experience of your script? AKA Why your screenwriting guru is wrong
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2:25:16
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July 1, 2019 4:07 PM
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DZ-59: Short Shot - Avengers Endgame
Do you want your audience feeling with or for your characters?
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1:14:32
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May 16, 2019 2:59 PM
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DZ-58: Game of Thrones – Character Exposition
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1:47:58
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May 1, 2019 11:45 PM
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DZ-57: Backmatter - Aesthetics and Forgiveness in Writing
How can you best articulate your ideas?
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1:29:00
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March 30, 2019 6:37 PM
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DZ-56: Character Motivations (Part 2)
Workshopping ways to fix character motivations.
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2:16:11
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January 15, 2019 9:35 PM
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DZ-55: Character Motivations (Part 1)
What to do when a reader says “I don’t buy that he/she would do that”?
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2:18:28
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October 10, 2018 2:06 PM
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DZ-54: Thematic Sequences
How does removing character and plot question force your audience to engage with theme?
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2:49:54
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August 26, 2018 2:09 PM
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DZ-53: Antagonists! (Part 5) - vs Audience
What if there is no antagonist?
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June 28, 2018 10:08 PM
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DZ-52: Antagonists! 4 – vs Systems
How do systems pressure your characters to change?
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May 31, 2018 12:48 PM
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DZ-51: Antagonists! (Part 3) - vs Nature
What changes in your story if your antagonistic forces can’t be bargained with?
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April 19, 2018 10:31 PM
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DZ-50: Antagonists! (Part 2) – vs Self
How can characters be their own antagonist?
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March 31, 2018 12:08 PM
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DZ-49: Antagonists! (Part 1) - vs Humans
What makes a strong human antagonist?
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1:20:58
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February 28, 2018 5:59 PM
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DZ-48: One-Shot – Blade Runner 2049 – Agency vs Choice
Can your characters be given choices and yet still be deprived of agency?
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1:53:34
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January 11, 2018 6:49 PM
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DZ-47: Backmatter – A Lost Jedi, White Knighting, and Writers-On-Set
Will Director Stu allow Writer Chas on his set?
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2:21:34
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December 19, 2017 2:52 PM
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DZ-46: Structure & POV – Get Out, Dunkirk, & The Lives of Others
What questions do you want your audience asking at any given time?
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2:25:10
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October 27, 2017 4:13 PM
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DZ-45: Arguments of the Scene
How can you dramatise your theme on a scene level?
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2:21:06
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September 17, 2017 9:46 PM
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DZ-44: Marvel, First Acts and Establishing Characters
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2:07:28
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July 8, 2017 1:44 PM
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DZ-43: Driving Sequences – Character and Plot Intensity
What gives your sequences their intensity?
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April 26, 2017 11:04 PM
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DZ-42: One-Shot -Split, Character Worldview & Macro POV
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1:52:49
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March 24, 2017 7:28 PM
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DZ-41: Theme and Worldview
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2:32:39
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February 4, 2017 3:26 PM
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DZ-40: Tactics and Scenes
How do tactics make your characters and scenes more dynamic?
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2:15:50
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January 15, 2017 4:18 PM
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DZ-39: Backmatter – Hitting LA, Receiving Feedback, and a Roguish One
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December 6, 2016 1:58 PM
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DZ-38: Excelling at Exposition (Part 2)
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1:52:47
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November 23, 2016 2:53 PM
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DZ-37: Excelling at Exposition (Part 1)
How can you successfully integrate exposition into your story?
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October 30, 2016 5:28 PM
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DZ-36: Backmatter – Time Risk and Fixing Movies
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1:07:25
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October 6, 2016 7:02 PM
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DZ-35: Driving Characters or Character Driven?
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1:20:50
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August 14, 2016 9:23 PM
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DZ-34: Game of Choices - Decision Making and Character Implications
How does the experience of a character's decision impact our feelings towards that character?
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1:26:24
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July 15, 2016 10:04 PM
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DZ-33: Protagonist vs Hero – Dawn of Character Function
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1:58:19
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June 12, 2016 4:06 PM
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DZ-32: High-Tension Sequences
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2:23:13
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April 10, 2016 1:24 PM
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DZ-31: Tools for Better Dialogue
How does dialogue serve to reveal character?
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2:04:54
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February 28, 2016 2:26 PM
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DZ-30: Oscars revisited – Spotlight and Carol
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1:43:36
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January 25, 2016 5:44 PM
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DZ-29: Showdowns & Scene Structure
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December 21, 2015 5:52 PM
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DZ-28: Containing Your Script
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November 15, 2015 9:39 PM
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DZ-27: Competing views on Screenplay Competitions
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1:42:12
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October 31, 2015 1:57 PM
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DZ-26: Horror and Collaboration- Wolf Creek 2
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September 15, 2015 1:59 PM
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DZ-25: Coincidences, Contrivances & Giant Eagles
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August 4, 2015 2:18 PM
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DZ-24: Forging story rules in TV pilots
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2:05:36
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July 6, 2015 3:27 PM
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DZ-23: LIVE – Starting A Career In Film And Television
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June 11, 2015 3:37 PM
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Z-22: Romantic Comedy, Actually
How can studying RomCom clichés teach us to subvert them?
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May 8, 2015 12:01 AM
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DZ-21: Scene Transitions and the Hook
How can scene transitions do more than just move from one location to another?
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April 2, 2015 7:38 PM
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DZ-20: Writing Strong Secondary Characters - Trinity, Bechdel and a Bamboo Killer
How can the Trinity Syndrome help you write better secondary characters?
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1:18:03
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March 1, 2015 7:08 PM
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DZ-19: Car-Crash Characters
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1:59:38
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January 22, 2015 6:43 PM
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DZ-18: Michael Bay - F*ing the Frame and P*ing the Page
Are there screenwriting lessons to be taken from analysing the work of Michael f-ing Bay?
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January 6, 2015 10:38 PM
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DZ-17: Where's my gold-plated ensuite?
When you're an emerging filmmaker, what are different ways to tackle a "career"?
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December 16, 2014 7:07 PM
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DZ-16: Masters of Time and Whitespace
Does manipulating time on the page make your script feel more cinematic?
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1:49:26
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November 4, 2014 10:28 PM
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DZ-15: World Building Rules, Okay?
How does setting up rules help you build a world?
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2:00:12
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October 22, 2014 2:19 PM
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DZ-14: Writing For Actors with Succession's Sarah Snook
How can we make our screenwriting more appealing to Actors?
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1:16:36
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October 5, 2014 5:11 PM
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DZ-13: True That – Tips from Tarantino
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September 16, 2014 6:00 PM
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DZ-12: Craft, Career and Coffins
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1:01:58
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July 31, 2014 1:47 AM
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DZ-11: Adventure for the MacGuffin!
Is the MacGuffin truly interchangable, and how does it impact on your character writing?
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1:49:06
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July 8, 2014 10:37 PM
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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?
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1:19:56
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June 23, 2014 8:47 PM
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DZ-09: Characterising Introductions
Can the introduction of a character be so good that the character doesn't need describing?
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1:22:50
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June 10, 2014 11:51 PM
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DZ-08: Status Transactions
How does a shift in status or power reveal character?
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1:32:58
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May 26, 2014 10:54 AM
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DZ-07: On Rewriting - How much Bull is left in the Hustle?
What can be gleamed from the substantial rewrite of a famed spec script?
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May 12, 2014 10:29 AM
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DZ-06: Key Scenes and Unlocking the Story
Can one scene be the key to unlocking the whole story?
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1:18:42
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April 27, 2014 5:02 PM
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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?
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1:29:15
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April 14, 2014 12:58 PM
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DZ-04: Catharsis and the Post-Coital Cigarette
How does the end of certain films make your soul shudder?
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March 31, 2014 10:53 AM
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DZ-03: Making unlikeable protagonists compelling
How do you make obnoxious a-holes compelling?
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1:20:10
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March 17, 2014 11:28 AM
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DZ-02: Do the Screenplay Gurus score big at the Box Office?
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1:33:01
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March 1, 2014 12:26 PM
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DZ-01: Do Screenplay Gurus win you Oscars?
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1:40:38
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February 1, 2014 12:00 PM
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DZ-00: Welcome to Draft Zero
What, exactly, is Draft Zero?
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0:09:15
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