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2024

"I agree with everything that you guys have said that the the complexity of the plot every time I rewatch it it keeps me engaged because I know who the baddie is and I know how everyone ends up at the end but I every time I rewatch I've got no idea how they get it every time that he pees on the corpse I'm like oh fuck."

— Chas Fisher  |  DZ-115: A Christmas Special - Rewatching & Rituals

DZ-115: A Christmas Special - Rewatching & Rituals
What magic do Christmas movies use to make them so rewatchable?
AI✦The entire episode centers on what makes holiday films so rewatchable that they become seasonal rituals, using KISS KISS BANG BANG, RIDERS OF JUSTICE, and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE as case studies.✦
⏱ 1h 56m
Tone · Structure · Theme | 23 DEC 2024
Listen if you want to understand what makes holiday films enduring parts of our seasonal rituals!
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In this “backmatter” episode of Draft Zero, Stu, Chas, and Mel Killingsworth embark on a festive exploration of what makes holiday films so engaging and so re-watchable that they can become part of our rituals. To that end, we breakdown the charm of of Christmas films like KISS KISS BANG BANG, RIDERS OF JUSTICE, and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE… →
DZ-112: Breaking the 4th wall
How is the effect of breaking the 4th wall different to voiceover?
AI✦Chas notes how the physical placement and frequency of fourth-wall breaks–glancing over a shoulder versus barrelling straight at the camera–establishes whether the tone is confessional asides or urgent, immediate intimacy, a choice that flavors the entire show’s personality.✦
⏱ 1h 52m
Character · Words · Tone | 31 JUL 2024
Listen to understand how breaking the 4th wall directly involves the audience in a character's emotional present.
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As part of our series on how filmmakers can directly communicate to the audience, we finally examine the most blatant tool of them all: when character look directly down the barrel of the camera… and thus look directly at us, the viewer. Chas, Stu and Mel take the craft tools/levers they identified in previous episodes and use them to examine the tv-version-of HIGH FIDELITY (“Top Five Breakups”), ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (“Attack Ad)”) and - of course - FLEABAG… →