Two emerging screenwriters – Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis – try to work out what makes great screenplays work. Discovering what it takes by analysing what successful writers put on the page.
DZ-107: Establishing Tone Through Character
Feb. 29, 2024
01:54:19
DZ-106: How do you know if you have enough story?
Dec. 31, 2023
01:36:13
DZ-105: Establishing Tone Through Big Print
Nov. 30, 2023
02:06:09
DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal
Nov. 1, 2023
01:29:43
DZ-103: Game of the Scene 2 - Triangle of Sadness, The Favourite
Oct. 1, 2023
01:42:37
DZ-102: Game of the Scene - Bluey, John Wick 4
Aug. 31, 2023
01:23:30
DZ-101 Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page
July 3, 2023
01:23:01
DZ-100: Scenes through Swords
May 29, 2023
01:00:35
DZ-99: Scene Questions
May 1, 2023
01:34:43
DZ-98: Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme
March 31, 2023
02:02:03
DZ-97: Ensembles 2 - Servicing Characters
Feb. 28, 2023
02:22:28
DZ-96: Ensembles 1 - What do we mean by an ensemble?
Jan. 31, 2023
01:16:26
DZ-95: Backmatter - Building and Maintenance
Dec. 31, 2022
01:16:50
DZ-94: Talismans (Part 2)
Nov. 30, 2022
02:07:34
DZ-93: Talismans (Part 1)
Oct. 31, 2022
01:37:45
DZ-92: Insightful recognition in powerful endings
Sept. 29, 2022
01:26:06
DZ-91: Raising (different kinds of) Stakes
Aug. 31, 2022
02:19:46
DZ-90: Setups & Payoffs in Everything Everywhere All At Once
July 27, 2022
01:30:54
DZ-89: Opening Sequences
May 31, 2022
01:48:09
DZ-88: Drama in Genre clothing
April 30, 2022
02:06:33
DZ-87: Keeping Genre fresh
March 28, 2022
02:13:13
DZ-86: Backmatter - Minimum Viable Product
Feb. 1, 2022
01:29:47
DZ-85: Choices & Decisions 2 - The Farewell & Wrath of Man
Nov. 17, 2021
01:49:23
DZ-84: Choices & Decisions 1 - Booksmart
Oct. 30, 2021
01:12:38
DZ-83: A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!
Sept. 8, 2021
02:31:37
DZ-82: Dramatising Given Circumstances in Watchmen
Aug. 18, 2021
02:06:11
DZ-81: Pitch Decks & Look Books - Development Tools 4
June 30, 2021
01:13:23
DZ-80: Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women
May 31, 2021
02:11:25
DZ-79: Interweaving Timelines 2 - The Social Network
April 30, 2021
01:37:29
DZ-78: Interweaving Timelines 1 - Destroyer
April 1, 2021
01:42:38
DZ-77: Backmatter - Prioritising and choosing projects
Feb. 28, 2021
01:36:41
DZ-76: Spotlight on Sofia Coppola
Feb. 1, 2021
01:54:24
DZ-75: Fury Road & Visual Storytelling
Dec. 31, 2020
01:09:28
DZ-74: Midsommar & Folk Horror
Dec. 1, 2020
02:01:43
DZ-73: Selling documents - Development Tools 3
Oct. 21, 2020
39:10
DZ-72: Theme & The Story Synopsis – Development Tools 2
Sept. 28, 2020
01:00:25
DZ-71: Treatments & Loglines - Development Tools 1
Sept. 1, 2020
01:26:46
DZ-70: Joker & Melodrama
July 23, 2020
01:36:17
DZ-69: Parasite & Audience Questions
June 10, 2020
01:22:53
DZ-68: Using POV to structure KNIVES OUT
May 17, 2020
01:32:42
DZ-67: Writing “Passive” Protagonists & Melodrama
April 30, 2020
02:58:26
DZ LiVEsolation Annoucement
April 7, 2020
05:34
DZ-66: The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker - Audience Knowledge vs Character Motivation
March 17, 2020
01:45:11
DZ-65: Collaborating with a Director - The Snip
Feb. 14, 2020
01:03:10
DZ-64: Backmatter - Controlling your Work, Treatments, and Writing Styles
Jan. 30, 2020
01:42:29
DZ-63: Tools for Better Dialogue 2 - Hook and Eye
Dec. 31, 2019
01:58:25
DZ-62: Unfilmables and Unscriptables 3 - As Ifs & Emotional context
Dec. 2, 2019
02:17:14
DZ-61: Unfilmables and Unscriptables 2 - Moments of Awe
Sept. 25, 2019
02:05:32
DZ-60 Unfilmables and Unscriptables 1 - Engaging imagination
Aug. 7, 2019
02:25:17
DZ-59: Avengers Endgame - Ending Character Journeys
July 1, 2019
01:14:33
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