Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast
TV & Film
How can we use dramatisation to create tone?
In this episode, Chas and Stu continue their deep dive into how to write tone by examining films with “light” (we use the phrase loosely) tones: LADY BIRD, EMILY THE CRIMINAL, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, and SPONTANEOUS. We also talk a surprising amount about DUNE and CRAZY STUPID LOVE.
We focus on the relationship between character & tone and how the writers of these films use dramatisation to create their unique tones. We talk minimalism vs maximalism, dialogue, character actions & reactions, emotional dynamic range, and rules of the world vs given circumstances.
Stu proposes a new triangle to help us understand the dials we as writers have to affect tone: the given circumstances of the story, how that effects character actions & reactions, and how the audience are told about those elements.
Thanks to Chris Walker for his excellent editing this episode.
As always: SPOILERS ABOUND and all copyright material used under fair use for educational purposes.
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DZ-105: Establishing Tone Through Big Print
DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal
DZ-103: Game of the Scene 2 - Triangle of Sadness, The Favourite
DZ-102: Game of the Scene - Bluey, John Wick 4
DZ-101 Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page
DZ-100: Scenes through Swords
DZ-99: Scene Questions
DZ-98: Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme
DZ-97: Ensembles 2 - Servicing Characters
DZ-96: Ensembles 1 - What do we mean by an ensemble?
DZ-95: Backmatter - Building and Maintenance
DZ-94: Talismans (Part 2)
DZ-93: Talismans (Part 1)
DZ-92: Insightful recognition in powerful endings
DZ-91: Raising (different kinds of) Stakes
DZ-90: Setups & Payoffs in Everything Everywhere All At Once
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