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DZ-99: Scene Questions

Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

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The Importance of Directing in Film

Spike Lee's film starts off with a character question deliberately moves us into why are we watching this what is this saying about everything else and then goes back into who Raheem is. The directing helps raise that question right so yes it goes from like a two shot profiles you see Mookie and Radio Raheem and then the camera unmotivated by action so it's very like our point of view rotates 90 degrees so Radio Raheam is speaking right at camera.

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