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Twisting Genre
2 episodes · Mar 2022 – Apr 2022
DZ-87: Keeping Genre Fresh
How do you deliver on the emotional contract of a genre while surprising the audience?
In tackling this enormous topic, Stu and Chads enlist professional TV writer and director Kodie Bedford, someone who has somehow managed to defy genre pigeon-holing by writing mystery, comedy and vampire shows… →
Listen when you're writing within a genre but terrified you'll deliver something your audience has already seen.
DZ-88: Drama in Genre clothing
How can dramas use genre elements to hook their audiences?
Stu and Chas reunite with TV writer & director Kodie Bedford to look at how some films start out as genre but gradually become character dramas. Or, as Stu never said on the episode “Genre in the streets, Drama in the sheets”.… →
Listen if you're writing a genre film but sense your story wants to become something else entirely.