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Adaptation (2002)

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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.✦

⏱ 2h 3m

Theme · Words · Structure | 22 SEP 2024

Listen if you want to explore how you can make your creative hand visible through meta-storytelling and structural choices!?!

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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… →

Films: Adaptation (2002) , Stories We Tell (2012) , The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

Theme: Narrative Aesthetics , Theme

Words: Direct Address , Fourth Wall

Structure: Thematic Question

"It’s a love letter to the horrific process of writing. It’s very Stockholm syndrome. Is terrible and yet I love it and i must continue to do it."

— mel | DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience