§ RESOURCES / FILM INDEX
Adaptation (2002)
Featured In
DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience
What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood?
AI✦Examines how Adaptation uses diegetic communication--dialogue and action occurring within the story world itself--to create meta-commentary, allowing the film to debate its own themes and creative process without breaking the fourth wall.✦
Listen if you want to explore how you can make your creative hand visible through meta-storytelling and structural choices!?!
▶ More Info
In our final (ha!) episode looking at Talking Directly to the Audience, we turn away from character-and-text based craft tools to look at other ways that filmmakers - whether they be directors, writers, editors, or anyone else - can make the audience feel their ‘hand’ more. To that end, Mel, Stu and Chas dive into ADAPTATION, STORIES WE TELL and THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION… →
"You are what you love, not what loves you."