Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast
By Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis
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Description
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.
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DZ-124: Making the despicable compelling
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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DZ-123: Flawed Characters and Noir
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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1dZ-01: Arkyvrs - A Mansion Most Vile - Ep1
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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DZ-122: Escalating Antagonism 2
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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DZ-121: Escalating Antagonism 1: SINNERS
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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DZ-120: Subtext is overrated
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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DZ-119: Final Character Choices & Great Endings
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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DZ-118: Adolescence and tension through questions
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May 01, 2025 |
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DZ-117: Tonal shifts
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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DZ-116: Writing physical comedy
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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DZ-115: A Christmas Special - Rewatching & Rituals
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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DZ-114: Climaxes in Challengers
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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DZ-113: Tools for filmmakers to talk to the audience
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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DZ-112: Breaking the 4th wall
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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DZ-111: Unreliable Narrators and Fight Club
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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DZ-110: Voiceover
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May 31, 2024 |
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DZ-109: Talking DIRECTLY to your audience
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May 01, 2024 |
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DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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DZ-107: Establishing Tone Through Character
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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DZ-106: How do you know if you have enough story?
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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DZ-105: Establishing Tone Through Big Print
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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DZ-103: Game of the Scene 2 - Triangle of Sadness, The Favourite
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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DZ-102: Game of the Scene - Bluey, John Wick 4
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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DZ-101: Oners - Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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DZ-100: Scenes through Swords
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May 29, 2023 |
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DZ-99: Scene Questions
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May 01, 2023 |
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DZ-98: Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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DZ-97: Ensembles 2 - Servicing Characters
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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DZ-96: Ensembles 1 - What do we mean by an ensemble?
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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DZ-95: Backmatter - Building and Maintenance
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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DZ-94: Talismans (Part 2)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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DZ-93: Talismans (Part 1)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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DZ-92: Insightful recognition in powerful endings
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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DZ-91: Raising (different kinds of) Stakes
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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DZ-90: Setups & Payoffs in Everything Everywhere All At Once
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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DZ-89: Opening Sequences
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May 31, 2022 |
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DZ-88: Drama in Genre clothing
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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DZ-87: Keeping Genre fresh
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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DZ-86: Backmatter - Minimum Viable Product
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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DZ-85: Choices & Decisions 2 - The Farewell & Wrath of Man
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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DZ-84: Choices & Decisions 1 - Booksmart
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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DZ-83: A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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DZ-82: Dramatising Given Circumstances in Watchmen
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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DZ-81: Pitch Decks & Look Books - Development Tools 4
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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DZ-80: Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women
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May 31, 2021 |
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DZ-79: Interweaving Timelines 2 - The Social Network
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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DZ-78: Interweaving Timelines 1 - Destroyer
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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DZ-77: Backmatter - Prioritising and choosing projects
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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DZ-76: Spotlight on Sofia Coppola
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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DZ-75: Fury Road & Visual Storytelling
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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DZ-74: Midsommar & Folk Horror
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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DZ-73: Selling documents - Development Tools 3
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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DZ-72: Theme & The Story Synopsis – Development Tools 2
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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DZ-71: Treatments & Loglines - Development Tools 1
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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DZ-70: Joker & Melodrama
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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DZ-69: Parasite & Audience Questions
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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DZ-68: Using POV to structure KNIVES OUT
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May 17, 2020 |
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DZ-67: Writing "Passive" Protagonists & Melodrama
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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DZ LiVEsolation Annoucement
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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DZ-66: The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker - Audience Knowledge vs Character Motivation
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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DZ-65: Collaborating with a Director - The Snip
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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DZ-64: Backmatter - Controlling your Work, Treatments, and Writing Styles
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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DZ-63: Tools for Better Dialogue 2 - Hook and Eye
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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DZ-62: Unfilmables and Unscriptables 3 - As Ifs & Emotional context
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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DZ-61: Unfilmables and Unscriptables 2 - Moments of Awe
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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DZ-60 Unfilmables and Unscriptables 1 - Engaging imagination
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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DZ-59: Avengers Endgame - Ending Character Journeys
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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DZ-58: Game of Thrones - Character Exposition
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May 16, 2019 |
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DZ-57: Backmatter - Aesthetics and Forgiveness in Writing
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May 01, 2019 |
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DZ-56: Character Motivations (Part 2)
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Mar 30, 2019 |
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DZ-55: Character Motivations (Part 1)
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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DZ-54: Thematic Sequences
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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DZ-53: Antagonists! 5 - vs Audience
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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DZ-52: Antagonists! 4 - vs Systems
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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DZ-51: Antagonists! 3 - vs Nature
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May 31, 2018 |
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DZ-50: Antagonists! 2 - vs Self
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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DZ-49: Antagonists! 1 - vs Humans
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Mar 31, 2018 |
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DZ-48: One-Shot - Blade Runner 2049 – Agency vs Choice
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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DZ-47: Backmatter - A Lost Jedi, White Knighting, and Writers-On-Set
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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DZ-46: Structure & Point of View
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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DZ-46: Organising your story around Point of View
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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DZ-45: Arguments of the Scene
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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DZ-44: Marvel - First Acts and Establishing Characters
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Sep 17, 2017 |
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DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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DZ-42: One-Shot - Split, Character Worldview & Macro POV
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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DZ-41: Theme and Worldview
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Mar 24, 2017 |
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DZ-40: Tactics and Scenes
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Feb 04, 2017 |
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DZ-39: Backmatter - Hitting LA, Receiving Feedback, and a Roguish One
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Jan 15, 2017 |
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DZ-38: Excelling at Exposition (Part 2)
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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DZ-37: Excelling at Exposition (Part 1)
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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DZ-36: Backmatter - Time Risk and Fixing Movies
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Oct 30, 2016 |
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DZ-35: Driving Characters or Character Driven?
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Oct 06, 2016 |
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DZ-34: Game of Choices - Decision Making and Character Implications
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Aug 14, 2016 |
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DZ-33: Protagonist vs Hero - Dawn of Character Function
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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DZ-32: High-Tension Sequences
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Jun 12, 2016 |
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DZ-31: Tools for Better Dialogue 1
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Apr 10, 2016 |
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DZ-30: Oscars revisited - Spotlight and Carol
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Feb 28, 2016 |
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DZ-29: Showdowns & Scene Structure
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Jan 25, 2016 |
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DZ-28: Containing Your Script
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Dec 21, 2015 |