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Genre Translation
Every episode covering Genre Translation.
DZ-122: Escalating Antagonism Across Genres
How can you apply horror ideas to action and comedy?
AI✦Stu and Chas prove that TOMBS--a horror framework from a tabletop RPG--maps onto action thrillers and comedies, showing how the structure of antagonistic escalation transcends the genre it came from.✦
Listen to learn how thinking of your hero as the horror (for your villains) makes your script dynamic.
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In this episode Chas, Stu and guest Kim Ho continue their exploration into the power(s) of antagonism and how focusing on them can develop story… →
DZ-121: Escalating Antagonism in SINNERS
How do the antagonistic forces in your story escalate distinctly from the protagonists' journey?
AI✦Stu and Chas prove TOMBS isn’t just for horror by applying the cycle to thriller and comedy, showing that transgression, omens, and manifestation work anywhere you need antagonistic forces to drive narrative momentum.✦
Listen to strengthen your story by focusing on the antagonistic forces in your script.
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We often struggle to develop the middle stages of a story. Could this be because we focus on our protagonists’ journeys and plot structure more than on how the antagonistic powers are awakened, wronged, discovered, gathering strength and revealing themselves… →
Films:
Sinners (2025)
DZ-82: Dramatising Given Circumstances in WATCHMEN
How can you elegantly convey given circumstances and exposition?
AI✦Chas, Stu, and Mel analyze how the same source material (Moore and Gibbons’ graphic novel) is adapted across two different mediums and formats, each with distinct narrative and tonal choices that reshape how given circumstances are communicated.✦
Listen if you're drowning your readers in world-building and can't figure out how to make it awesome!
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In this final podcast release of last year’s run of LiveSoLation episodes, Chas and Stu are joined by Uber-geek Mel Killingsworth (who else?) in an epic exploration of how Dave Gibbons’ and Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel WATCHMEN is adapted differently in Zack Snyder’s 2009 film and Damon Lindelof’s 2019 HBO television show… →
Shows:
Watchmen