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Adam Mckay
Writer / Director
Films Discussed 2
- · Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) (d/w)
- · The Big Short (2015) (d/w)
Draft Zero Episodes 3
DZ-109: Talking DIRECTLY to your audience
What are the different ways a filmmaker can ask something of the audience?
What are the different ways a filmmaker can ask something of the audience… →
Listen if you've wondered what a character actually wants when they're talking directly to the audience!?
DZ-37: Excelling at Exposition (Part 1)
How can you successfully integrate exposition into your story?
In Draft Zero’s first two part episode, Stu & Chas take an in-depth look at one of screenwriting’s most common challenges: EXPOSITION. For many stories there are pre-existing facts that need to be communicated to the audience — whether those facts be about the rules of the world, the nature of a location, character motivations, character backstories or just character names. So how have great writers made exposition move the story forward, rather than stopping it to tell the audience stuff they need to know… →
Listen if your exposition scenes feel like information dumps disguised as dialogue.
DZ-3: Making Unlikeable Protagonists Compelling
How do you keep an audience watching a character everyone in the film hates?
Stu and Chas tackle the first 20 pages of HOT FUZZ, AS GOOD AS IT GETS and GROUNDHOG DAY and try to work out what stops these a-holes from pushing the audience out of the move… →
Listen if you want to understand how you can make audiences care about deeply flawed protagonists
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