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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

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DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity

What gives your sequences their intensity?

Chas and Stu are joined for the fourth time by the inestimable Stephen Cleary - this time to take a deep dive into sequences. A real deep dive. A 3+ hour deep dive… →

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8 JUL 2017

Structure · Character · Scenes

Listen to understand how dramatic questions shape audience engagement and pacing through sequences.

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Chas and Stu are joined for the fourth time by the inestimable Stephen Cleary - this time to take a deep dive into sequences. A real deep dive. A 3+ hour deep dive… →

Films: The Bourne Identity (2002) , Naked (1993) , The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) , There Will Be Blood (2007) , Fargo (1996) , Children of Men (2006) , Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

Structure: Sequences , Dramatic Questions , Character Questions , Plot Questions

Character: Character Agency

Scenes: Scene Structure

"In Diving Bell and the Butterfly, this guy’s got locked in syndrome and the opening sequence is him waking up in the hospital, and we can hear him talking to these doctors but we realize they can’t hear him speaking."

— chas | DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity