§ RESOURCES / FILMMAKER INDEX
Jane Campion
Writer / Director
Films Discussed 2
- · Bright Star (2009) (d/w)
- · The Power of the Dog (2021) (d/w)
Draft Zero Episodes 2
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.
DZ-88: Drama in Genre clothing
How can dramas use genre elements to hook their audiences?
Stu and Chas reunite with TV writer & director Kodie Bedford to look at how some films start out as genre but gradually become character dramas. Or, as Stu never said on the episode “Genre in the streets, Drama in the sheets”.… →
Listen if you're writing a genre film but sense your story wants to become something else entirely.