Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

DZ-05: Shifting audience point of view and heightened emotions


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Can forcing your audience to ask questions - and then answering them - trigger an emotional response?

Stu and Chas delve into audience point of view - not character point of view! Does your audience know more, less or the same as your characters? And does changing this within a scene trigger or heighten the desired emotional response?

To test this theory, we look to the genre that changes the audience's point of view the most: thrillers. So we analyse scenes and sequences from THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, ZERO DARK THIRTY and ARGO. As usual though, we can't help ourselves and also consider scenes from GROUNDHOG DAY, PHILOMENA and - of course - Stu refers to STAR WARS.

LINKS

  • Reddit: Have you ever rooted for the bad guy? 
  • Youtube: Hitchcock on Mastering Cinematic Tension
  • Lumina: New Thoughts in Screenwriting Prompted by the Thriller by Stephen Cleary 
  • Wordplayer: The Task by Terry Rossio
  • PHILOMENA by Jeff Pope & Steve Coogan
  • THE BOURNE SUPREMACY by Tony Gilroy and Brian Helgeland - We analyse Pages 1 - 14
    • Youtube: Beach and Goa car chase from THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
    • ZERO DARK THIRTY by Mark Boal
      • Youtube: The bomb goes off from ZERO DARK THIRTY
      • ARGO by Chris Terrio
        • Youtube: Third checkpoint from ARGO airport sequence
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