- Oh hey Val. How's it goin'?
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- You know what, I'mhavin' a really bad day. What happened? - See what Val's saying whenshe says, 'What happened,' is, tell me a story. And that's actually what this season of Pixar in a Box is all about.
Storytelling-animation workshop. Tehzeeb also educated them about the First Animation Film with sound. The Little Artists were amused to see the Mickey Mouse film ‘ Steamboat Willie” the first film with sound. The sound was given while the film was being played at a theatre. They used drums and vessels to give sound effect.
To make a movie here at Pixar takes years, but it all starts with a story. Humans have been telling stories since we could speak, probably before. We tell stories around the campfire, we write plays, we writenovels, short stories.
We make movies, we takephotographs, tweet to each other, the list goes on. The power of story isthat it has an ability to connect with peopleon an emotional level.
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One of the things you hear all the time, this advice, is write what you know. Now, as a kid I was like, I don't want to write about suburbanMinnesota, that's boring. I wanna write about explosions and monsters and car chases. Well, what that actually means is, yeah go ahead and write about monsters and explosions and carchases, but put something into it that talks about yourown life, how you feel. Do you feel scared?
Do you feel alone? Something from your own life will make that story come alive and not just be a boring car chase. (mumbles) - When I started directingMonsters, Incorporated, the way I would pitch it is, it's about a monster whoscares kids for a living. That's his job. He clocks in, he clocksout, he eats donuts and talks about union dues, and we thought that was a pretty funny idea. And sure enough, when I would tell it to people, they would smile. But when we told the story as a film, people started getting bored and restless and they're like, 'I don't understand 'what this movie's about.'
Well, what I finally figured out was that it's actually not abouta monster who scares kids, it's about a man becoming a father. (laughing) That was what was happening to me. So, why write about what you know?
Well, it's because, probably what happened to you made you feel some particular way. And what you're trying todo really when you tell a story, is to get the audienceto have that same feeling.
One of the big revelationsfor me telling stories, is how much work they are, really. I always thought, you would just tell the story once, and it would be perfect. And geniuses like Walt Disney or Miyazaki, this brilliance comesout of their head once, and there it is. Well the truth is, ourstories don't always come out exactly perfectly the first time, or the second time, or the third time, or the fourth time, up to the 30th time. And so you keep going again and again.
And only after retelling the story many, many times, does it really sparkle. This season of Pixar in a Box is about how we at Pixar tell our stories, in hopes that it willinspire you to tell yours. But, seriously, what happened? - Oh, oh, so the first thing. I get to my desk, right?
It's eight o'clock in the morning.
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