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I’m not dead! Don’t panic! Hah!
I’ve started my Class 5 at Animation Mentor with Eliot Bour as my mentor. This class is short film preproduction, and I’ve been banging away on a couple short film ideas for the last couple weeks. This week, I needed to pitch my ideas to Elliot which was a ton of fun. This weeks lecture was with Mary Coleman – Story Development Director at Pixar.
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Characteristics of a natural born storyteller.
1. Exaggeration
2. Story develops with each telling
3. Juicy details
4. Beginning/ Middle/ End
5. Passionate
6. Commands Attention
7. Takes pleasure in Story
8. Self as a hero
9. Draw from experience
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Hah, and here I’ve been accused of lying and exaggerating to excess for all these years but I’ve actually just been training! Check out my video pitches and if you had feedback, let me know! I’m leaning towards the Bandito, which was a story my mate Dave threw out the bones of during one very heavily rum fueled evening. The BBQ story was something that happened (more or less) to my father.