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Tone

1 episode  ·  Mar 2025

"I think there’s a sort of pressure in Western cinematic storytelling to be monotonal, that if you change tones, that’s somehow a bad thing or doesn’t fit or doesn’t work."

— Chas Fisher  |  DZ-117: Pulling Off Tonal Shifts

DZ-117: Pulling Off Tonal Shifts

How can we teach our audience new storytelling rules in the middle of our story?
Following on from our episodes on establishing tone through action lines and through character, this is what we have been building up to: how to pull off a tonal switch… that does NOT throw the audience out of the film. And, in particular, how to pull that off on the page when writers don’t have framing, lighting, music, editing, etc. at our disposal… →
⏱ 2h 8m
31 MAR 2025
Listen if you want to write tonal pivots that land on the page without a director's toolkit.
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