John Lasseter dedicating an exhibit on the movie-making of Pixar.In it, he shares three keys to a great film:–A compelling, but unpredictable, story,–Connectable characters, and–A believable, but not necessarily realistic, world.He also shows one of the tools Pixar developed to help them tell great stories: a “color script”. In it, panels are drawn of key parts in the movie, showing the color tones to be used, which set the emotional tone. I sorta like thinking of it as a “color score”, almost like a musical score that charts the ups and downs of the emotional arc.Bonus videos if you’d like to delve deeper:–A Day in the Life of John Lasseter–Charlie Rose interviews Steve Jobs and John Lasseter a few months after the first Toy Story was released–John Lasseter gives the 2015 SCAD Commencement Address–Ed Catmull talks about his recently published book on creating creative cultures: Creativity, Inc.
