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Veronica West
Writer / Director
Films Discussed 1
- · High Fidelity (2020) (d/w)
Draft Zero Episodes 1

DZ-112: Breaking the 4th wall
How is the effect of breaking the 4th wall different to voiceover?
As part of our series on how filmmakers can directly communicate to the audience, we finally examine the most blatant tool of them all: when character look directly down the barrel of the camera… and thus look directly at us, the viewer. Chas, Stu and Mel take the craft tools/levers they identified in previous episodes and use them to examine the tv-version-of HIGH FIDELITY (“Top Five Breakups”), ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (“Attack Ad)”) and - of course - FLEABAG… →
Listen to understand how breaking the 4th wall directly involves the audience in a character's emotional present.
