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YELLOWJACKETS (2021)

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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✦Examines how the pilot establishes its dark-comedy tone through deliberate tonal signposting–using the “wine lady” scene to telegraph what’s acceptable to laugh at, preventing the audience from taking early moments of violence too seriously for too long.✦

⏱ 2h 6m

Tone · Process · Genre | 30 NOV 2023

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

"They’re using the language of horror. The image system, or the word system, whatever you want to call it, as they’re writing, adds to it."

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