Dec 16, 2014
Does manipulating time on the page make your script feel more cinematic?
Chas and Stu are joined by Khrob Edmonds - an award-winning filmmaker and founder of TangoEDIT - to discuss manipulation of time...
... on the page!
Cinema is a time-based art, and one of the primary tools in film editing is manipulation of...
Nov 4, 2014
How does setting up rules help
you build a world?
In our most epic/longest episode yet, Chas and Stu tackle world building in films. Specifically, how the rules make something a world and not just a setting. Starting with world-centric genres like sci-fi and fantasy, we also cover horror, crime drama and - er -...
Oct 22, 2014
How can we make our screenwriting more appealing to Actors?
In this episode, Chas and Stu are joined by a very special guest, SARAH SNOOK - star of Succession, Predestination, Jessabelle, and Oddball, amongst many others - to discuss ACTING and it's relationship with WRITING.
We focus our analysis on two scenes from...
Oct 5, 2014
What is it about Tarantino's writing that elevates his work?
Chapter 1: Of Milk and Men
Tarantino is widely heralded as one of the great writer/directors. Yet new writers are advised to avoid emulating Tarantino because his voice is so strong. Only Tarantino can get away with being Tarantino. Or so the theory goes.
Sep 16, 2014
It's the The Podcast You Used To Know…. After a short hiatus, DRAFT ZERO is back!
Well, half of us is...
Chas (sans Stu) is joined by a very special guest - Natasha Pincus. As a screenwriter, Tash's feature CLIVE was on the 2012 Black List. As a director, her music video for Goyte's Someone I Used To Know was...