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Certain tropes or stylistic ways of telling a story can get really, really popular and trendy very quickly and it seems like they're everywhere! Suddenly many ...

QUACKCAST 475 - Tropeagedden! overuse of fashionable tropes...
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 21, 2020QUACKCAST 474 - What shows during Quarantine?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 14, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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OMG we're all still stuck inside forever and ever. So what are the shows we're all watching? We all get together to have a bit ...
QUACKCAST 472 - CoVid-19-cast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 31, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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In this strange time of global pandemic it'd be crazy NOT to acknowledge what we're all experiencing together, so that's what we're talking ...
QUACKCAST 444 - 3point landing
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 17, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Endings… getting them right is SO very hard. We've chatted about this before but this time Tantz has a number of good methods to make them ...
QUACKCAST 443 - sticks and stones
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Based on Banes' newspost about the latest Dave Chappelle comedy special, this Quackcast talks about the way audience reception to it has been somewhat divided based on ...
QUACKCAST 441 - Cooperation = cool
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 27, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Cooperation Vs Competition. For decades the mantra was competition is good: it produces progress and makes things better… Well that's actually false. Competition is what you ...
QUACKCAST 440 - Character tropes VS characterisation
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 20, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we compare and contrast two ways of making characters: starting with a pure archetype and building it with tropes, or creating a character organically through circumstance ...
QUACKCAST 438 - You just don't get it
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 6, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Sometimes your audience just doesn't pick up on the clever symbolism, the hints, the metaphor, the underlying themes and all the artistic cleverness in writing and ...
QUACKCAST 437 - Old Warhorse
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 30, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we cover the interesting trope of the “old warrior”. This was based upon a newspost Banes came up with last week. He was thinking of Captain ...
QUACKCAST 431 - Political messages in your work
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 18, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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*Cover-art from the movie poster for METROPOLIS, not Atlas shrugged :)
This Quackcast is about having political agendas in your work and expressing them well!
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