Wall-E and Toy Story Screenwriter Reveals the Clues to a Great Story « Aerogramme Writers' Studio. Warning: this video contains strong language Last week we posted Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling, a list of 22 golden tips first tweeted by Pixar Story Artist Emma Coats.The article received a tremendous response and since then a number of people have mentioned to us this TED talk by Andrew Stanton.
Stanton was the writer for all three Toy Story movies, as well as being the writer/director for Wall-E, Finding Nemo and John Carter. In this captivating lecture Stanton talks about the early days of Pixar, storytelling without dialogue, and capturing a truth from your experiencing it. Stanton also describes being taken at age five to see the Disney’s animated classic Bambi. Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling « Aerogramme Writers' Studio. These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist.
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting: Robert McKee: 9780060391683: Amazon.com. The Start of Storyboard Week. Here’s a storyboard sequence I drew for the “Apprentice” episode from the first season of The Mighty B!
Since it can be a hassle to open up all these individual pages, I also made them into a sweet slideshow player that you can view full-screen. Here’s that groovy slideshow player, but… …This dinky player isn’t big enough to see the storyboards clearly. If you click on the button in the lower right hand corner of the slideshow, it will open up a full-screen window that displays the pages nice and BIG! (note the Play/Pause button and directional arrows at the bottom of the player…those’ll help you go thru them at your own pace) The entire sequence is just below…CLICK on each thumbnail to see the FULL-SIZED storyboard page.
Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass. The Transom Review November 8th, 2011 | Edited by Sydney Lewis Download “Radiolab: An Appreciation” Manifesto (PDF) Artists compete.
From Ira Glass . . . FREE Storytelling Mini-Conference. Next week as you may know is Storytelling’s Biggest Online Conference… We’ve curated some of our favorite bite-size presentations from 7 storytelling experts that are part of next week’s Reinvention Summit. It’s like speed-dating for storytelling ideas and insights. Hope you enjoy the free videos below, a tasty appetizer to what’s happening next week with 20 hours of storytelling lessons and insights (all online). Six Proven Ways to Pitch Your Idea. Leadership involves influence (though it also requires much more).
Whether you’re motivating followers, promoting a new innovation, or gaining buy-in on a new strategy, your path as a leader or aspiring leader will involve having to gain commitment from a variety of stakeholders. In short, leaders often have to sell and sell well. If you’re looking for help pitching your ideas, my friend Daniel Pink’s new book To Sell is Human has some great resources for you. Inside, Dan outlines six proven ways to quickly and easily pique others interest and draw them in to hear more: The One-word Pitch. Gunther Sonnenfeld - Google+ - Gotta say that I'm really encouraged by Jonathan Harris's… The Science of Expectation: Using Humor To Understand Creativity. In his autobiography, The Moon’s A Balloon, British actor David Niven writes about an instance when the American playwright and screenwriter Charles MacArthur approached Charlie Chaplin for advice on how to improve the classic banana peel sequence, in which a person slips on a banana peel and falls to the ground.
MacArthur wondered if his scene should start with a shot of a fat lady and then go to the banana peel or vice versa. Chaplin suggested that MacArthur start the scene with the fat lady, cut to the peel, cut to a wide shot of the fat lady approaching the peel, back to the peel, and then, right before stepping on the peel, she steps over it and falls into an open manhole. Why is this funny?
Despite their surface diversity, most jokes are built using the same set of blueprints: they lead us down a path of expectations, build up tension, and at the end, introduce a twist that teases our initial expectations in a clever way. How to Write Great. Colson Whitehead’s Rules for Writing. Cowbird: An Anti-Facebook For Sharing Stories, Not Just Updates. Cowbird is a new platform for sharing stories online.
Wait, wait! Don’t click away. While it’s true that there are already plenty of other platforms for posting pictures and text to the Internet, the design is in the details. With Cowbird, Jonathan Harris wants to encourage a slower kind of storytelling. In an environment rife with frictionless sharing in the form of tweets, status updates, and reblogs, Cowbird aims to stand out as a place for heartfelt expressions of personal narratives. On the one hand, Cowbird sounds simply like a blogging platform: Users can post pictures, sound clips, and text.
[Stories that involve many participants are labeled as "Sagas. "] Jonah Sachs at Compostmodern '11.