Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

A podcast by Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis

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111 Episodes

  1. DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston

    Published: 3/31/2024
  2. DZ-107: Establishing Tone Through Character

    Published: 2/29/2024
  3. DZ-106: How do you know if you have enough story?

    Published: 12/31/2023
  4. DZ-105: Establishing Tone Through Big Print

    Published: 11/30/2023
  5. DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal

    Published: 11/1/2023
  6. DZ-103: Game of the Scene 2 - Triangle of Sadness, The Favourite

    Published: 10/1/2023
  7. DZ-102: Game of the Scene - Bluey, John Wick 4

    Published: 8/31/2023
  8. DZ-101 Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page

    Published: 7/3/2023
  9. DZ-100: Scenes through Swords

    Published: 5/29/2023
  10. DZ-99: Scene Questions

    Published: 5/1/2023
  11. DZ-98: Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme

    Published: 3/31/2023
  12. DZ-97: Ensembles 2 - Servicing Characters

    Published: 2/28/2023
  13. DZ-96: Ensembles 1 - What do we mean by an ensemble?

    Published: 1/31/2023
  14. DZ-95: Backmatter - Building and Maintenance

    Published: 12/31/2022
  15. DZ-94: Talismans (Part 2)

    Published: 11/30/2022
  16. DZ-93: Talismans (Part 1)

    Published: 10/31/2022
  17. DZ-92: Insightful recognition in powerful endings

    Published: 9/29/2022
  18. DZ-91: Raising (different kinds of) Stakes

    Published: 8/31/2022
  19. DZ-90: Setups & Payoffs in Everything Everywhere All At Once

    Published: 7/27/2022
  20. DZ-89: Opening Sequences

    Published: 5/31/2022

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Two emerging screenwriters – Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis – try to work out what makes great screenplays work. Discovering what it takes by analysing what successful writers put on the page.