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DRAFT ZERO
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Theodore Melfi

Writer / Director

Films Discussed 1

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…
⏱ 2h 19m
Audience · Structure · Character | 31 AUG 2022
Listen listen if you're writing a biopic or any story where the audience already knows how it ends.
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