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Storytelling Process with Chuck Williams and Aaron Blaise


Rodney

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Chuck Williams and Aaron Blaise have launched a kickstarter to fund the initial creation of their current effort; a movie called "Art Story".

But that isn't what I'm posting about here...

 

Previously to this effort Williams and Blaise were working at the ill fated Digital Domain on several other story ideas.

During that process they recorded a TEDx presentation about their creative process in creating their stories.

 

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Some concepts covered:

 

Starting out

Spaghetti Pitches

Inspiration

Capturing Moments

Evoking Emotion (Emotional Experiences)

Research/Reference

Connecting with Real Life

Beat Boards

Non Linear Creativity

 

Characters

Character Cards

Backstory

Actor Types

Traits

 

Plot

Three Act Structure

Principles of Storytelling/Structure

Shaping through Comparisons (to other stories/movies)

Constant exchange of ideas

Stringing the Story together

 

Theme (What you want to say... the most important part of the storytelling process)

Making choices based on the Theme

Illustrating the Beats

Pitching the Ideas

Incorporating Emotion/Acting

Story Evolution

 

Scripting

Breaking Acts down into Scenes

Storyboarding

Emmersive Research

Refinement/Replacement

Re-Storyboarding

 

Presentation

Condensing Millions of ideas into moments of animated magic

 

Those are some of the interesting things I took away from their presentation.

Perhaps the most important take away is that creativity is a process we keep plugging away at every day.

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Previously to this effort Williams and Blaise were working at the ill fated Digital Domain on several other story ideas.

During that process they recorded a TEDx presentation about their creative process in creating their stories.

 

Just wanted to thank you Rodney for posting this I enjoyed it very much.

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