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Chas Fisher

Host

"She is way more vulnerable with us as the audience than she presents to other people. Right. She does not share what’s happened to her mom, to any other character."

Steadfast Character Arcs - Agents of Change

What even is a Character Arc?

Secrets and Clues 2 - The Cost of Revelation

Secrets and Clues

Oscars One-shot - BLUE MOON

Making the Despicable Compelling

Flawed Characters in Noir

Escalating Antagonism Across Genres

Escalating Antagonism in SINNERS

Subtext is Overrated!

Final Character Choices & Great Endings

ADOLESCENCE -- How Questions Create Dramatic Tension

Pulling Off Tonal Shifts

Writing Physical Comedy

A Christmas Special - Rewatching & Rituals

Climaxes in CHALLENGERS

Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience

Breaking the 4th wall

Voiceover

Talking DIRECTLY to your audience

The Emotional Event with Judith Weston

Establishing Tone through Character

How do you know if you have enough story?

Establishing Tone through Big Print

Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal

Game of the Scene 2 - Triangle of Sadness, The Favourite

Game of the Scene - Bluey, John Wick 4

Oners - Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page

Scenes through Swords

Scene Questions

Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme

Ensembles 2 - Servicing Characters

Ensembles 1 - What do we mean by an ensemble?

Backmatter - Building and Maintenance

Talismans (Part 2)

Talismans (Part 1)

Insightful Recognition in Powerful Endings

Raising (different kinds of) Stakes

Setups & Payoffs in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Opening Sequences

Drama in Genre clothing

Keeping Genre Fresh

Backmatter - Minimum Viable Product

Choices & Decisions 2 - The Farewell & Wrath of Man

Choices & Decisions 1 - Booksmart

A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!

Dramatising Given Circumstances in WATCHMEN

Pitch Decks & Look Books - Development Tools 4

Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women

Interweaving Timelines 2 - The Social Network

Interweaving Timelines 1 - Destroyer

Backmatter - Prioritising and choosing projects

Spotlight on Sofia Coppola

Fury Road & Visual Storytelling

Midsommar & Folk Horror

Selling documents - Development Tools 3

Theme & The Story Synopsis - Development Tools 2

Treatments & Loglines - Development Tools 1

Joker & Melodrama

PARASITE & Audience Questions

Using POV to structure KNIVES OUT

Writing Passive Protagonists & Melodrama

The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker - Audience Knowledge vs Character Motivation

Collaborating with a Director - The Snip

Backmatter - Controlling your Work, Treatments, and Writing Styles

Tools for Better Dialogue 2 - Hook and Eye

Unfilmables 3 - As Ifs & Emotional Context

Unfilmables 2 - Moments of Awe

Unfilmables 1 - Engaging imagination

Avengers Endgame - Ending Character Journeys

Game of Thrones - Character Exposition

Backmatter - Aesthetics and Forgiveness in Writing

Character Motivations 2

Character Motivations 1

Thematic Sequences

Antagonists! 5 - vs Audience

Antagonists! 4 - vs Systems

Antagonists! 3 - vs Nature

Antagonists! 2 - vs Self

Antagonists! 1 - vs Humans

Michael Bay - Fing the Frame and Ping the Page