#[FOURTH WALL]

[atimesfeeler]

Do you think that Deadpool knows that ppl adore him sm that they draw his scars with little hearts

I feel like someone should tell him that

[literaryvein-reblogs]

hii!!! i dont know if this questions goes with your blog's usual tips, if it's not, dw, just ignore this ask. but do you have any tips to write 4th wall breaks in theather plays, aka for live public? thank you!!!!

Writing Notes: Breaking the Fourth Wall

Fourth Wall - An imaginary wall that separates the story from the real world.

This term comes from the theatre, where the 3 surrounding walls enclose the stage while an invisible “4th wall” is left out for the sake of the viewer.

The 4th wall does not exist in such a set but is suggested by the proscenium—the implied plane that marks the “edge” of the onstage action.

The audience sits just beyond that 4th wall.

The 4th wall is the screen we’re watching.

We treat this wall like a one-way mirror.

The audience can see and comprehend the story, but the story cannot comprehend the existence of the audience.

In a Hollywood film or TV show, the 4th wall is where the camera stands. Most of the time, the actors in a scene do not acknowledge the camera or audience; they carry on as though the scene were real life, and they treat the missing wall as if it were there.

If you break that wall, you break that accord. This is called “Breaking The 4th Wall.” It can also be described as the story becoming aware of itself.

Breaking the Fourth Wall - Typically, theatre productions, films, and television shows allow audiences to follow the action of a story with a degree of remove. Viewers drop in on fictional worlds as voyeurs, observing characters from “outside” the story. Yet sometimes playwrights, screenwriters, and directors will upend this suspended reality by having characters address the audience.

When plays, television shows, and movies break the fourth wall, they acknowledge the existence of the audience and speak to them directly.

When they do this, the fictional world gives way to the literal reality of the medium: A group of actors is putting on a performance for a live audience or a camera.

The actors may step out of their imagined reality and address the audience watching them.

When this happens, they break the fourth wall.

IN THEATRE PLAYS. How to break the fourth wall & some tips:

Turning and speaking directly to the audience in a play is one way to step over the invisible line to connect with the audience.

Audience participation is another method of breaking the fourth wall. An active relationship between actors and patrons can include an interactive or immersive component that defies the fourth wall. Rather than asking the audience to be passive observers, interactive theatrical experiences give them an active role that impacts the outcome of the narrative.

Establish intimacy by speaking directly to the audience. It adds a level of insight and vulnerability—it sparks an immediate connection beyond the world of the story. It can make the audience feel more sympathetic or empathetic to your character’s plight.

Break the fourth wall for comedic effect. The audience can elevate the joke if they are in on it. Wisecracks, a punchline, or referring to specific conventions (such as advertising) in a knowing or ironic manner gain more laughs. Quick reactions directed toward the camera/audience while the other characters are in the dark also injects levity.

Relay information because extra details always help the story unfold. Briefly stepping outside the world of the performance can break down complicated language in layman’s terms while bringing in more comedy or intimate elements.

Unsettle your viewers. Comedy may be the showcase for breaking the fourth wall, but scary material also taps into this technique to provoke an unnerving effect.

Be extreme. Break the fourth wall all the time, or very rarely. You don’t want the audience to question your decision, or for them to think you were never really sure that wall breaks were the right idea for your story in the first place. Breaking the fourth wall needs to come across as intentional. Anything “middle of the road” will fall into an unwelcome, and frustrating gray area.

Be thoughtful. Consider opportune scenes and moments within the scene for wall breaks. Ask yourself: (a) Should I break the fourth wall before a scene to share key intel? (b) Break it in the middle of a scene as a sort of joke, or aside? (c) Break it at the very end of a scene to punctuate the moment? If you can find a way to break the fourth wall that enhances your scene, you’ll have something special. Can you do it without a word of dialogue? Even better. When you break the fourth wall, you creep into the secret mind of a character. Ever notice how many times it is used with psychopaths?

Be controversial. Don’t waste your big decision with an underwhelming 4th wall break. Controversial doesn’t mean you have to be crass or rude. It means you’re doing something big to get the viewer’s attention. Everyone notices when you break the fourth wall. You cross a line. If you’re going to do it, you need to make it count. Otherwise, why do it?

Sources: 1 2 3 ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

Hi, this is perfectly fine! Here's what I found for you. Such an interesting topic for me. You can find more information in the sources. Hope this helps with your writing!

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Lost in the Fourth Wall.

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୨୧ brewing love ( dorama ) lockscreens.

[ask-ranma-and-ryoga]

RANMA: I kinda feel like I’m due for a new look, to be honest…

[evagelieneinthesky]

Usually, when we talk about the most heartbreaking part of Fleabag finale, we talk about this:

It is incredibly heartbreaking. But we all knew it was coming. And so did Fleabag. Which is why, even with the massive heartbreak, she accepts his decision. She knew he loved God, and no one will come in between that. She knew they could never be together. She had known that from the start. She neither expected nor hoped to be in a relationship. She just wanted to let him know, that she loved him. She wanted to let him know that he was loved. By her. No conditions. No matter what. Which is what makes this scene so heartbreaking.

But I think the most heartbreaking part comes right after:

These four words are enough to break her apart. Fleabag had spent most of her adult life thinking that she was unlovable. And then there comes this man, whom she loved, despite her heartbreak, telling her that he loves her back. Something she almost never hears. And this too is coming from a man, for whom admitting that he loved someone, like romantically loved someone, was a big deal.

And at this point, everything that they have been through, just becomes infinitely more profound. This is the moment, we, the audience and Fleabag, realize, that she was loved. By the man who finds her in moments where she loses herself. By someone who made her feel infinitely better about herself. By the man who made her see life in a brand-new way, who made her see herself with more love. The full realization hits, and that is what makes her (and me) breakdown. She isn't sad because it didn't happen. She mourns, because it did happen. She was loved.

(I don't know if any of this even makes sense)

BONUS:

The Hot Priest will never know that she saw The Fox, and immediately knew it was for him. He will never know, that the woman he loved saw something that apparently only he could see, and KNEW it was for him.

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[averagecygnet-blog]

one thing I absolutely adore about tgwdlm is how completely and irrevocably a stage musical it is. it HAS to be a stage musical - the medium is so deeply baked into the story that it truly would not translate to another medium.

some reasons why:

the musical style is old-fashioned in a way that screams classic broadway. you can't get away from it, especially in songs like "lah dee dah dah day" and "show stoppin number". and it's not just the music, it's the dancing too - have you ever seen a kickline in a movie musical, once, ever? or jazz hands? gimme a break

along similar lines - all the broadway references! hamilton of course, but also wicked and mamma mia and jekyll & hyde

all the attention deliberately brought to the lighting and set! the performers in "la dee dah dah day" loudly saying "lights down!" when it's over; ted, paul, and emma striking the stage after "show stoppin number"; the lighting panels used as sirens, TVs, showcasing hudgins' alexa, and more; ted wheeling the big meteor prop off the stage after "let it out". they don't let you forget that we're in a theater.

all the hokey ass miming and special effects???? charlotte and hudgins having their guts ripped out is flashy and fun onstage because of the intestine props. emma and ted having blood capsules in their mouths. paul, emma, and zoey violently shaking when pantomiming being in a helicopter. ted running in place, moving forward or back to suggest movement across the road. it's all so fun and consistently reminds you that this is a stage

double-casting as intentional obstruction of the truth. we're used to seeing one actor play several roles in a musical, so when a familiar face shows up in a new costume we assume it's a new character. but it was zoey flying the helicopter to clivesdale, and I think it was zoey in the hospital at the end as well. you couldn't pull that shit in a movie because movies don't double-cast.

the role of the audience, the laughter and gasps and reactions and applause, especially the applause at the end when emma is begging the audience members to let her use their phone and demanding to know why they're clapping; sure movies have audiences too but the presence of the audience as part of the story makes a point about societal ideals as something we all have a part in that a movie just couldn't make in the same way

on a related note - emma's sudden awareness of the stage and the audience as the horror trope where the person realizes they're trapped and will imminently die. she knows she can't escape because it's just a fuckin loop. she knows no one will save her because they're all clapping. you couldn't do that in a movie because in a movie there is a fourth wall, whereas on a stage there's nowhere for the characters to run away. on a stage the characters can look you, the audience, directly in the eye, with no camera or screen between you

I will literally never shut up about that curtain call

god damn what I wouldn't give to watch this show performed live

[soupsandwich64]

Deadpool: *looking super hot and cool snd awesome and epic and hot and cute and sexy and powerful and cool and-*

Spider-Man: what are you doing??..

Deadpool: trying to give the reader a good mental image. IS IT WORKING?!

[maybe-im-dark]

Logan comes home and sees Wade sitting on the couch, staring at the wall, yapping away and laughing occasionally. Logan approaches him carefully and watches. It seems Wade is in a conversation with someone that isn't there.

"Wade?"

Wade jumps up. "Huh?"

"Are you...are you hearing voices in your head?"

Wade explains to him he's been hearing voices ever since he underwent the experiment. It's also why he can break the fourth wall and knows about the different realities. Logan doesn't quite understand it but he leans in and kisses him deeply.

"And what about now? Are the voices gone?"

"Yeah. Oh my god, Logan, i am alone in my head! The first time in ages!"

"Then maybe i should kiss you more often."

[seaweedmakesart]

Since Deadpool knows he's in a movie, do you think he remembers senes that didn't make it into the movie or takes that got replaced. Like you know gag reels and stuff, I think he remembers them like it happened but sense he remembers all of them, it's hard for him to remember which ones made it into the movie. Thank you for reading my fever induced Ted-Talk. 

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shop stuff coming down on august 1st!

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Dragon's hoard of ORV books.

for the Ize Press fanart contest! im very excited to enter this and i loved the excuse to draw the chimera dragon's manhwa design ✦ ✦ ✦

[synaspensprungvomdorf]

Regret it or was it worth it?

[6-and-7]

Redraw of that one scene from The Feast of Steven (alt version without old TV effects & text below cut)