All Episodes

DZ-126: Secrets and Clues

DZ-125: Oscars One-shot - BLUE MOON

DZ-124: Making the Despicable Compelling

DZ-123: Flawed Characters in Noir

1dZ-01: Arkyvrs - A Mansion Most Vile - Ep1

DZ-122: Escalating Antagonism Across Genres

DZ-121: Escalating Antagonism in SINNERS

DZ-120: Subtext is Overrated!

DZ-119: Final Character Choices & Great Endings

DZ-118: ADOLESCENCE and Tension Through Questions

DZ-117: Pulling Off Tonal Shifts

DZ-116: Writing Physical Comedy

DZ-115: A Christmas Special - Rewatching & Rituals

DZ-114: Climaxes in CHALLENGERS

DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience

DZ-112: Breaking the 4th wall

DZ-111: Unreliable Narrators and FIGHT CLUB

DZ-110: Voiceover

DZ-109: Talking DIRECTLY to your audience

DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston

DZ-107: Establishing Tone through Character

DZ-106: How do you know if you have enough story?

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: Oners - 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

DZ-89: Opening Sequences

DZ-88: Drama in Genre clothing

DZ-87: Keeping Genre Fresh

DZ-86: Backmatter - Minimum Viable Product

DZ-85: Choices & Decisions 2 - The Farewell & Wrath of Man

DZ-84: Choices & Decisions 1 - Booksmart

DZ-83: A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!

DZ-82: Dramatising Given Circumstances in Watchmen

DZ-81: Pitch Decks & Look Books - Development Tools 4

DZ-80: Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women

DZ-79: Interweaving Timelines 2 - The Social Network

DZ-78: Interweaving Timelines 1 - Destroyer

DZ-77: Backmatter - Prioritising and choosing projects

DZ-76: Spotlight on Sofia Coppola

DZ-75: Fury Road & Visual Storytelling

DZ-74: Midsommar & Folk Horror

DZ-73: Selling documents - Development Tools 3

DZ-72: Theme & The Story Synopsis - Development Tools 2

DZ-71: Treatments & Loglines - Development Tools 1

DZ-70: Joker & Melodrama

DZ-69: Parasite & Audience Questions

DZ-68: Using POV to structure KNIVES OUT

DZ-67: Writing Passive Protagonists & Melodrama

DZ LiVEsolation Annoucement

DZ-66: The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker - Audience Knowledge vs Character Motivation

DZ-65: Collaborating with a Director - The Snip

DZ-64: Backmatter - Controlling your Work, Treatments, and Writing Styles

DZ-63: Tools for Better Dialogue 2 - Hook and Eye

DZ-62: Unfilmables 3 - As Ifs & Emotional Context

DZ-61: Unfilmables 2 - Moments of Awe

DZ-60: Unfilmables 1 - Engaging imagination

DZ-59: Avengers Endgame - Ending Character Journeys

DZ-58: Game of Thrones - Character Exposition

DZ-57: Backmatter - Aesthetics and Forgiveness in Writing

DZ-56: Character Motivations (Part 2)

DZ-55: Character Motivations 1

DZ-54: Thematic Sequences

DZ-53: Antagonists! 5 - vs Audience

DZ-52: Antagonists! 4 - vs Systems

DZ-51: Antagonists! 3 - vs Nature

DZ-50: Antagonists! 2 - vs Self

DZ-49: Antagonists! 1 - vs Humans

DZ-48: One-Shot - Blade Runner 2049 - Agency vs Choice

DZ-47: Backmatter - A Lost Jedi, White Knighting, and Writers-On-Set

DZ-46: Structure & Point of View

DZ-46: Structure & Point of View

DZ-45: Arguments of the Scene

DZ-44: Marvel - First Acts and Establishing Characters

DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity

DZ-42: One-Shot - Character Worldview & Macro POV in SPLT

DZ-41: Theme and Worldview

DZ-40: Tactics and Scenes

DZ-39: Backmatter - Hitting LA, Receiving Feedback, and a Roguish One

DZ-38: Excelling at Exposition (Part 2)

DZ-37: Excelling at Exposition (Part 1)

DZ-36: Backmatter - Time Risk and Fixing Movies

DZ-35: Driving Characters or Character Driven?

DZ-34: Game of Choices - Decision Making and Character Implications

DZ-33: Protagonist vs Hero - Dawn of Character Function

DZ-32: High-Tension Sequences

DZ-31: Tools for Better Dialogue 1

DZ-30: Oscars revisited - Spotlight and Carol

DZ-29: Showdowns & Scene Structure

DZ-28: Containing Your Script

DZ-27: Competing views on Screenplay Competitions

DZ-26: Horror and Collaboration- Wolf Creek 2

DZ-25: Coincidences, Contrivances & Giant Eagles

DZ-24: Forging story rules in TV pilots

DZ-23: LIVE - Starting A Career In Film And Television

DZ-22: Romantic Comedy, Actually

DZ-21: Scene Transitions and the Hook

DZ-20: Writing Strong Secondary Characters - Trinity, Bechdel and a Bamboo Killer

DZ-19: Car-Crash Characters

DZ-18: Michael Bay - F*ing the Frame and P*ing the Page

DZ-17: Where's my gold-plated ensuite?

DZ-16: Masters of Time and Whitespace

DZ-15: World Building Rules, Okay?

DZ-14: Writing For Actors with Succession's Sarah Snook

DZ-13: True That - Tips from Tarantino

DZ-12: Craft, Career and Coffins

DZ-11: Adventure for the MacGuffin!

DZ-10: Midpoint Reversals and The Ride

DZ-09: Characterising Introductions

DZ-08: Status Transactions

DZ-07: On Rewriting - How much Bull is left in the Hustle?

DZ-06: Key Scenes and Unlocking the Story

DZ-05: Shifting audience point of view and heightened emotions

DZ-04: Catharsis and the Post-Coital Cigarette

DZ-03: Making Unlikeable Protagonists Compelling

DZ-02: Do the Screenplay Gurus score big at the Box Office?

DZ-01: Do Screenplay Gurus win you Oscars?

DZ-00: Welcome to Draft Zero