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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-130: Positive Character Arcs

Teaser: Positive Character Arcs

DZ-129: Steadfast Character Arcs - Agents of Change

DZ-128: What even is a Character Arc?

DZ-127: Secrets and Clues 2 - The Cost of Revelation

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

DZ-46: Structure & Point of View

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 -- How Questions Create Dramatic Tension

DZ-117: Pulling Off Tonal Shifts

DZ-116: Writing Physical Comedy

DZ-115: A Christmas Special - Rewatching & Rituals

DZ-114: Climaxes in CHALLENGERS

DZ-18: Michael Bay - Fing the Frame and Ping the Page