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Things I've worked on

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  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
  • 2036: Nexus Dawn
  • 2048: Nowhere to Run

Draft Zero Ep49 - Blade Runner 2049 – Agency vs Choice

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In this episode, Chas & Stu & Catherine take a deep-dive into Blade Runner 2049 — and talk (at length) about character…

  • Captain Phillips
  • Crimson Tide
  • The Hunt for Red October
  • U-571
  • The Ice Pirates

T&C Research

24 films Edit list
  • Dunkirk
  • Get Out
  • Manchester by the Sea
  • The Lives of Others

Macro POV

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  • Hidden Figures
  • Nightcrawler

Unchanging Heroes

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  • Iron Man
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Doctor Strange

Draft Zero Ep44 - First Acts and Establishing Characters

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How can your first act effectively establish your character journey?

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First Acts are hard. They have to set so…

  • Donnie Brasco
  • The Departed
  • Self/less
  • Criminal
  • Infernal Affairs

Undercover Research

15 films Edit list
  • The Bourne Identity
  • Naked
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Fargo

Draft Zero Ep 43: Driving Sequences – Character and Plot Intensity

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What gives your sequences their intensity?

Chas and Stu are ed for the fourth time by the inestimable Stephen Cleary…

  • Air Force One
  • Clear and Present Danger
  • Enemy of the State
  • Executive Decision
  • Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

POTUS Research

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  • Zodiac
  • Training Day
  • Hell or High Water
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Winter's Bone

Draft Zero Ep 40 - Tactics and Scenes

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How do tactics make your characters and scenes more dynamic?

draft-zero.com/2017/dz-40/

In this episode, Stu and Chas turn their gaze…