Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

By Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis

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Episodes: 100

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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.

Episode Date
DZ-109: Talking DIRECTLY to your audience
May 01, 2024
DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston
Mar 31, 2024
DZ-107: Establishing Tone Through Character
Feb 29, 2024
DZ-106: How do you know if you have enough story?
Dec 31, 2023
DZ-105: Establishing Tone Through Big Print
Nov 30, 2023
DZ-104: Characters Alone - Dramatizing the Internal
Nov 01, 2023
DZ-103: Game of the Scene 2 - Triangle of Sadness, The Favourite
Oct 01, 2023
DZ-102: Game of the Scene - Bluey, John Wick 4
Aug 31, 2023
DZ-101 Creating Immediacy & Anchoring Action on the Page
Jul 03, 2023
DZ-100: Scenes through Swords
May 29, 2023
DZ-99: Scene Questions
May 01, 2023
DZ-98: Ensembles 3 - Character Function & Theme
Mar 31, 2023
DZ-97: Ensembles 2 - Servicing Characters
Feb 28, 2023
DZ-96: Ensembles 1 - What do we mean by an ensemble?
Jan 31, 2023
DZ-95: Backmatter - Building and Maintenance
Dec 31, 2022
DZ-94: Talismans (Part 2)
Nov 30, 2022
DZ-93: Talismans (Part 1)
Oct 31, 2022
DZ-92: Insightful recognition in powerful endings
Sep 29, 2022
DZ-91: Raising (different kinds of) Stakes
Aug 31, 2022
DZ-90: Setups & Payoffs in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Jul 27, 2022
DZ-89: Opening Sequences
May 31, 2022
DZ-88: Drama in Genre clothing
Apr 30, 2022
DZ-87: Keeping Genre fresh
Mar 28, 2022
DZ-86: Backmatter - Minimum Viable Product
Feb 01, 2022
DZ-85: Choices & Decisions 2 - The Farewell & Wrath of Man
Nov 17, 2021
DZ-84: Choices & Decisions 1 - Booksmart
Oct 30, 2021
DZ-83: A Very Thematic Stand-up Special!
Sep 08, 2021
DZ-82: Dramatising Given Circumstances in Watchmen
Aug 18, 2021
DZ-81: Pitch Decks & Look Books - Development Tools 4
Jun 30, 2021
DZ-80: Interweaving Timelines 3 - Little Women
May 31, 2021
DZ-79: Interweaving Timelines 2 - The Social Network
Apr 30, 2021
DZ-78: Interweaving Timelines 1 - Destroyer
Apr 01, 2021
DZ-77: Backmatter - Prioritising and choosing projects
Feb 28, 2021
DZ-76: Spotlight on Sofia Coppola
Feb 01, 2021
DZ-75: Fury Road & Visual Storytelling
Dec 31, 2020
DZ-74: Midsommar & Folk Horror
Dec 01, 2020
DZ-73: Selling documents - Development Tools 3
Oct 21, 2020
DZ-72: Theme & The Story Synopsis – Development Tools 2
Sep 28, 2020
DZ-71: Treatments & Loglines - Development Tools 1
Sep 01, 2020
DZ-70: Joker & Melodrama
Jul 23, 2020
DZ-69: Parasite & Audience Questions
Jun 10, 2020
DZ-68: Using POV to structure KNIVES OUT
May 17, 2020
DZ-67: Writing “Passive” Protagonists & Melodrama
Apr 30, 2020
DZ LiVEsolation Annoucement
Apr 07, 2020
DZ-66: The Mandalorian and The Rise of Skywalker - Audience Knowledge vs Character Motivation
Mar 17, 2020
DZ-65: Collaborating with a Director - The Snip
Feb 14, 2020
DZ-64: Backmatter - Controlling your Work, Treatments, and Writing Styles
Jan 30, 2020
DZ-63: Tools for Better Dialogue 2 - Hook and Eye
Dec 31, 2019
DZ-62: Unfilmables and Unscriptables 3 - As Ifs & Emotional context
Dec 02, 2019
DZ-61: Unfilmables and Unscriptables 2 - Moments of Awe
Sep 25, 2019
DZ-60 Unfilmables and Unscriptables 1 - Engaging imagination
Aug 07, 2019
DZ-59: Avengers Endgame - Ending Character Journeys
Jul 01, 2019
DZ-58: Game of Thrones - Character Exposition
May 16, 2019
DZ-57: Backmatter - Aesthetics and Forgiveness in Writing
May 01, 2019
DZ-56: Character Motivations (Part 2)
Mar 30, 2019
DZ-55: Character Motivations (Part 1)
Jan 15, 2019
DZ-54: Thematic Sequences
Oct 10, 2018
DZ-53: Antagonists! 5 - vs Audience
Aug 26, 2018
DZ-52: Antagonists! 4 - vs Systems
Jun 28, 2018
DZ-51: Antagonists! 3 - vs Nature
May 31, 2018
DZ-50: Antagonists! 2 - vs Self
Apr 19, 2018
DZ-49: Antagonists! 1 - vs Humans
Mar 31, 2018
DZ-48: One-Shot - Blade Runner 2049 – Agency vs Choice
Feb 28, 2018
DZ-47: Backmatter - A Lost Jedi, White Knighting, and Writers-On-Set
Jan 11, 2018
DZ-46: Structure & Point of View
Dec 19, 2017
DZ-46: Organising your story around Point of View
Dec 19, 2017
DZ-45: Arguments of the Scene
Oct 27, 2017
DZ-44: Marvel - First Acts and Establishing Characters
Sep 17, 2017
DZ-43: Driving Sequences - Character and Plot Intensity
Jul 08, 2017
DZ-42: One-Shot - Split, Character Worldview & Macro POV
Apr 26, 2017
DZ-41: Theme and Worldview
Mar 24, 2017
DZ-40: Tactics and Scenes
Feb 04, 2017
DZ-39: Backmatter - Hitting LA, Receiving Feedback, and a Roguish One
Jan 15, 2017
DZ-38: Excelling at Exposition (Part 2)
Dec 06, 2016
DZ-37: Excelling at Exposition (Part 1)
Nov 23, 2016
DZ-36: Backmatter - Time Risk and Fixing Movies
Oct 30, 2016
DZ-35: Driving Characters or Character Driven?
Oct 06, 2016
DZ-34: Game of Choices - Decision Making and Character Implications
Aug 14, 2016
DZ-33: Protagonist vs Hero - Dawn of Character Function
Jul 15, 2016
DZ-32: High-Tension Sequences
Jun 12, 2016
DZ-31: Tools for Better Dialogue 1
Apr 10, 2016
DZ-30: Oscars revisited - Spotlight and Carol
Feb 28, 2016
DZ-29: Showdowns & Scene Structure
Jan 25, 2016
DZ-28: Containing Your Script
Dec 21, 2015
DZ-27: Competing views on Screenplay Competitions
Nov 15, 2015
DZ-26: Horror and Collaboration- Wolf Creek 2
Oct 31, 2015
DZ-25: Coincidences, Contrivances & Giant Eagles
Sep 15, 2015
DZ-24: Forging story rules in TV pilots
Aug 03, 2015
DZ-23: LIVE - Starting A Career In Film And Television
Jul 06, 2015
DZ-22: Romantic Comedy, Actually
Jun 11, 2015
DZ-21: Scene Transitions and the Hook
May 07, 2015
DZ-20: Writing Strong Secondary Characters - Trinity, Bechdel and a Bamboo Killer
Apr 02, 2015
DZ-19: Car-Crash Characters
Mar 02, 2015
DZ-18: Michael Bay - F*ing the Frame and P*ing the Page
Jan 22, 2015
DZ-17: Where's my gold-plated ensuite?
Jan 06, 2015
DZ-16: Masters of Time and Whitespace
Dec 16, 2014
DZ-15: World Building Rules, Okay?
Nov 04, 2014
DZ-14: Writing For Actors with Succession's Sarah Snook
Oct 22, 2014
DZ-13: True That - Tips from Tarantino
Oct 05, 2014
DZ-12: Craft, Career and Coffins
Sep 16, 2014