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Andrew Motion
Writer
Films Discussed 1
- · Bright Star (2009) (w)
Draft Zero Episodes 1
DZ-91: Raising (different kinds of) Stakes
How can you keep your audience hooked when they know the end of the story?
Chas, Stu and Mel take a deep dive into stakes, using then lens of biopics to help us think about them. If an audience already knows the “plot” outcome of a story, then how do you create stakes to make a story tense for the audience… →
Listen listen if you're writing a biopic or any story where the audience already knows how it ends.