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The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

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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 visual language--color, casting choices including the filmmaker’s real-life brother, and aesthetic decisions--functions as direct address to the audience, operating outside traditional dialogue-based fourth-wall breaking.✦

⏱ 2h 3m

22 SEP 2024

Theme · Words · Structure

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

"Because I would say this film is actually more talking directly to the audience than Adaptation. Adaptation is more meta in the sense that it’s about the writing process. But I think this is more directly talking to the audience from the filmmaker’s perspective."

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