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Swiss Army Man (2016)
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DZ-117: Pulling Off Tonal Shifts
How can we teach our audience new storytelling rules in the middle of our story?
AI✦Analyses the film’s use of visual language and dramatic irony to create emotional truth beneath tonal instability, demonstrating how contrast in action-line pacing signals a tonal switch to the reader.✦
Listen if you want to write tonal pivots that land on the page without a director's toolkit.
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Following on from our episodes on establishing tone through action lines and through character, this is what we have been building up to: how to pull off a tonal switch… that does NOT throw the audience out of the film. And, in particular, how to pull that off on the page when writers don’t have framing, lighting, music, editing, etc. at our disposal… →
"Swiss Army Man, written and directed by The Daniels."
— chas | DZ-117: Pulling Off Tonal Shifts