Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
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Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
Most good stories revolve around watching a character struggle outside of his or her comfort zone. Pixar continually figures out what a protagonist wants most—and then throws the exact opposite at them.
Dean Movshovitz • Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
Change always comes with a price.
Dean Movshovitz • Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
What Is Theme? Theme can be an elusive concept that can be approached in many different ways. For this chapter, let’s treat theme as any abstract concept that your story is fundamentally about. What does your story present and explore that is universal and timeless? What is inherently human about it? Finding Nemo is about a clownfish searching for
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Pixar’s films usually offer something more in this struggle. In their movies, conflict tends to expose or change something emotional within the core of their characters.
Dean Movshovitz • Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
But for them to compel an audience, you must also endow them with a deep passion for something…anything. We care because they care.
Dean Movshovitz • Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
In storytelling, the most powerful instance of construction is personal, when a protagonist must change something deep within themselves to achieve their goal.
Dean Movshovitz • Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
What Is Theme? Theme can be an elusive concept that can be approached in many different ways. For this chapter, let’s treat theme as any abstract concept that your story is fundamentally about. What does your story present and explore that is universal and timeless? What is inherently human about it? Finding Nemo is about a clownfish searching for... See more