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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.✦

⏱ 2h 6m

30 NOV 2023

Tone · Process · Genre

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… →

Films: The Nice Guys (2016) , The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) , YELLOWJACKETS (2021)

Shows: YELLOWJACKETS 1x1

Tone: Establishing Tone , Dark Comedy , Tonal Shifts

Process: Craft Tools

Genre: Visual Language

"he is using the word to tell us what this tone should be, which is strange. It’s not erotic, it is just strange."

— stu | DZ-105: Establishing Tone through Big Print