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Kodie Bedford
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DZ-88: Drama in Genre clothing
How can dramas use genre elements to hook their audiences?
Listen if you're writing a genre film but sense your story wants to become something else entirely.
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Stu and Chas reunite with TV writer & director Kodie Bedford to look at how some films start out as genre but gradually become character dramas. Or, as Stu never said on the episode “Genre in the streets, Drama in the sheets”.… →
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AI✦The episode's central thesis is how these three films use genre in the streets but deliver character drama in the sheets, making the pivot from genre hook to character-driven story the core craft question.✦
DZ-87: Keeping Genre Fresh
How do you deliver on the emotional contract of a genre while surprising the audience?
Listen when you're writing within a genre but terrified you'll deliver something your audience has already seen.
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In tackling this enormous topic, Stu and Chads enlist professional TV writer and director Kodie Bedford, someone who has somehow managed to defy genre pigeon-holing by writing mystery, comedy and vampire shows… →
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AI✦Each of the films discussed uses thematic depth to transcend genre formula, with Kodie, Stu, and Chas identifying how theme becomes the engine that makes genre storytelling feel necessary rather than obligatory.✦