§ RESOURCES / FILMMAKER INDEX
Alfonso Cuarón
Writer / Director
Films Discussed 2
- · Children of Men (2006) (d/w)
- · Gravity (2013) (d/w)
Draft Zero Episodes 3
DZ-101: Oners - Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page
What can we learn by analysing how 'oners' are written on the page?
Chas, Stu and Mel reunite to talk about writing the feel of camerawork in screenplays. We use “oners” — a long-playing continuous take — as a lens to talk about how some writers have “directed” from the page. We talk immediacy, camera positions, handovers, and anchoring action and more… →
Listen to understand how screenwriters direct the camera without calling shots.
DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity
What gives your sequences their intensity?
Chas and Stu are joined for the fourth time by the inestimable Stephen Cleary - this time to take a deep dive into sequences. A real deep dive. A 3+ hour deep dive… →
Listen to understand how dramatic questions shape audience engagement and pacing through sequences.
DZ-2: Do the Screenplay Gurus score big at the Box Office?
Do the biggest original films of 2013 follow more archetypal - or formulaic - structures?
After analysing awards-nominated screenplays, Stu and Chas turn to the original screenplays that struck it biggest at the box office in 2013: GRAVITY and FROZEN. Do bigger films stick more closely to the archetypal story structures espoused by Vogler and Snyder… →
Listen to see how GRAVITY and FROZEN use completely different structural blueprints.
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Referenced In
Shot Zero Deep Dives
Time and space in staging "Oners" by Shot Zero
via Goodfellas, Children of Men, and The Adventures of Tintin
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