The Importance of a Thematic Question in Film

How do audience questions shape scenes?

nspired by our earlier episodes on sequences, Chas and Stu narrow their focus to look at the atomic unit of screen storytelling: the scene. In particular, we breakdown how question and answers prompted in the audience structure individual scenes.

We talk plot, character, and theme questions (and their hybrids) by analysing scenes from LOKI, THE LAST CRUSADE, THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, QUEEN AND SLIM,  and DO THE RIGHT THING. We also briefly discuss SUCCESSION, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOUR AMONG THIEVES, and ANDOR.

As always: SPOILERS ABOUND

CHAPTERS

• 00:00:00 - Cold Open
• 00:01:56 - Intro: Scene Questions
• 00:16:30 - Loki
• 00:23:24 - The Last Crusade
• 00:33:03 - The Bourne Supremacy
• 00:45:50 - Queen and Slim
• 01:03:03 - Do The Right Thing
• 01:15:03 - Key Learnings & Wrap Up
• 01:33:02 - Many thanks to our Patreons

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RELATED EPISODES

• DZ-54: Thematic Sequences: https://draft-zero.com/2018/dz-54/
• DZ-43: Driving Sequences – Character and Plot Intensity: https://draft-zero.com/2017/dz-43/
• DZ-45: Arguments of the Scene: https://draft-zero.com/2017/dz-45/

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