Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis

Two emerging screenwriters – Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis – try to work out what makes great screenplays work. Discovering what it takes by analysing what successful writers put on the page.

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Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

Episodes (131)

May 27th DZ-127: Secrets and Clues 2 - The Cost of Revelation
May 5th DZ-126: Secrets and Clues
Feb 26th DZ-125: Oscars One-shot - BLUE MOON

Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

May 27, 2026
2 hours
90 MB

Listen to learn the emotional impact of revealing secrets vs discovering them. In this episode Stu, Chas and Mel apply the Landmark–Hidden–Secret framework (from DZ-126) across two very different genres: the thriller SIDE EFFECTS (2013) and the tragicomic pilot of SHRINKING. SIDE EFFECTS is a film of two genres. The first half plays as a drama about depression and over-medication; the second half is a 90s thriller. We talk about how every time Dr Jonathan Banks uncovers a new piece of information, it puts him in danger — and that danger motivates him to uncover more.<...

Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast

DZ-127: Secrets and Clues 2 - The Cost of Revelation

Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis

00:00 -01:51:51