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Direct Address

Every episode covering Direct Address.

"I do think that simply by nature of calling him Charlie Kaufman and even just by getting Nicolas Cage to play him right off the bat, it is talking directly to us in a somewhat removed way, right?"

— Mel Killingsworth  |  DZ-113: Tools For Filmmakers To Talk To The Audience

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

What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood?
AI✦Mel, Stu, and Chas spend the episode cataloging how filmmakers communicate directly with audiences through meta-storytelling and structural choices that sit outside the story world.✦
⏱ 2h 3m
22 SEP 2024
Listen if you want to explore how you can make your creative hand visible through meta-storytelling and structural choices!?!
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In our final (ha!) episode looking at Talking Directly to the Audience, we turn away from character-and-text based craft tools to look at other ways that filmmakers - whether they be directors, writers, editors, or anyone else - can make the audience feel their ‘hand’ more. To that end, Mel, Stu and Chas dive into ADAPTATION, STORIES WE TELL and THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION… →

DZ-109: Talking DIRECTLY to your audience

What are the different ways a filmmaker can ask something of the audience?
AI✦Chas and Stu build a taxonomy of direct audience address by isolating four levers: diagetic to non-diagetic, who is talking, whom they’re talking to, and when in time the communication originates.✦
⏱ 1h 20m
1 MAY 2024
Listen if you've wondered what a character actually wants when they're talking directly to the audience!?
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