DZ-108: The Emotional Event with Judith Weston

Podcast: Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast · Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis

Opublikowano: 2024-03-31

Listen to understand why a scene's power lives in what shifts between characters, not what happens to them. How and why should every scene have an emotional event? For the first episode of our tenth anniversary year, we are joined by Judith Weston to talk about Emotional Events. What is an emotional event? Well, it’s a way of thinking about scenes through relationships rather than plot. Instead of asking how a scene moves the plot forward, ask how the scene alters the relationship between characters. While emotional events are ostensibly a tool for directors to...