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Pain & Gain (2013)

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DZ-110: Voiceover

How can you use voiceover without it feeling like a cheat?

How can you use Voiceover without it feeling like a cheat?… →

⏱ 1h 41m

Character · Audience · Words | 31 MAY 2024

Listen to explore how voiceover can set tone, reveal character, enhance empathy, and create tension.

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How can you use Voiceover without it feeling like a cheat?… →

Films: The Emperor's New Groove (2000) , Pain & Gain (2013) , Veronica Mars (2004)

Shows: Veronica Mars 1x1

Character: Character Motivation , Unreliable Narrator

Audience: Audience Sympathy , Tension

Words: Voiceover

"This film would not work without the voiceovers. You would not believe for a second what any of the characters do without the voiceovers. And yet, because of the voiceovers, you are in it the entire time."

— chas | DZ-110: Voiceover

DZ-18: Michael Bay - F*ing the Frame and P*ing the Page

Are there screenwriting lessons to be taken from analysing the work of Michael f-ing Bay?

Of course there are. How could there not be? After all, Michael Bay is the 3rd highest grossing director at the worldwide box office… of all time. Behind, y’know, Spielberg and stuff. How could a man of such credentials not know story? Or, so argues this week’s guest: the author of MICHAEL F-ING BAY: THE UNHERALDED GENIUS IN MICHAEL BAY’S FILMS… [drumroll]… the Bitter Script Reader… →

⏱ 1h 7m

Genre · Character · Process | 22 JAN 2015

Listen to understand how one of the world's highest-grossing directors structures story, makes great villians, controls information flow, and makes visual decisions on the page

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Films: The Rock (1996) , The Island (2005) , Pain & Gain (2013)

Genre: Visual Language , Genre Conventions

Character: Character Function

Process: Craft Tools

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