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The Nice Guys (2016)
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DZ-105: Establishing Tone through Big Print
How can we teach the reader to find the humour in our darkness?
AI✦Analyzes how Shane Black’s opening pages use camera description not merely to indicate framing but to convey the experience of that framing, embedding tonal information directly into the visual language so readers understand the film’s perspective on its own violence and comedy.✦
Listen if you want to use an unusual tone in your screenplay.
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Chas and Stu finally start their long-mooted exploration of tone with a series that examines films and shows with unusual tones and dives into how the writers establish those tones in the first 5 pages… →
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"He is writing our experience as the audience to us as we’re reading it."
DZ-60: Unfilmables 1 - Engaging imagination
How can unfilmables enhance the experience of your script?
*AKA Why your screenwriting guru is wrong *… →
Listen to discover how *produced* screenplays use unfilmables to shape tone, performance, and humour on the page.
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*AKA Why your screenwriting guru is wrong *… →
Films:
Lethal Weapon (1987)
, Hereditary (2018)
, A Quiet Place (2018)
, Killing Them Softly (2012)
, Spartan (2004)
, The Girl on the Train (2016)
, The Nice Guys (2016)
, Drive (2011)
, Michael Clayton (2007)
, The Tree of Life (2011)
, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
, Killing Eve (2018)
, Fleabag (2016)
, Sharp Objects (2018)
, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
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