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DZ-99: Scene Questions

Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

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Controlling Character Questions in a Scene

"You can basically control character questions of a spectrum from at their most quote unquote narrative or dramatic plot questions to their most I guess esoteric or abstract thematic questions with character being somewhere in the middle," she says. "What question do I want the audience to be asking that cook or creates the suspense the reason to watch this scene right like there is a fact that they're they're playing fight the power and the power is trying to turn the music off is you know so it's so loaded but yeah."

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