The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

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

What tools help ensure that you as the filmmaker are not misunderstood?

AI✦Examines how visual language–color, casting choices including the filmmaker’s real-life brother, and aesthetic decisions–functions as direct address to the audience, operating outside traditional dialogue-based fourth-wall breaking.✦

⏱ 2h 3m

Theme · Words · Structure | 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… →

Films: Adaptation (2002) , Stories We Tell (2012) , The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

Theme: Narrative Aesthetics , Theme

Words: Direct Address , Fourth Wall

Structure: Thematic Question

"She's giving it to us visually. She's giving it to us in color. She's giving it to us sometimes in people who are like her real life brother. I don't think she could be shouting it at us any louder other than like, you know, doing the Woody Allen thing of pausing and walking in as herself and and talking directly to the camera."

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