Notes: Then audience wants to work for their meal: 2+2 Stories aren't exact or predictable All well drawn characters have a dominant unconscious goal. Acknowledge what drives you take the wheel and steer it Change must happen in a story Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty An itch they can't scratch Singular goal Truth that deepens understanding of who we are Make me care Make a promise in the beginning Stories have guidelines Like your main character Theme: "who are you?" Invoke a sense of wonder You're welcome
Wow. I was pausing the video to constantly go over to my google doc, to write down the points he raised I felt relevant to help me writing a story. The video finished. I was happy with the work I put in to writing down the key points. Then I went to the comments, always risky on RUclips, only this time it was risky because everything I just spent twice the length of this video writing down, you had written down. Every damn point. Most of them, more succinctly. But what I wanted was to learn something, to write down what I felt was important, and to I guess deep down, feel it was worth the effort. Your comment made me feel it was worth the effort. I wasn't alone in taking note, in note taking.
A Unicorn It means that they want to think a bit for themselves and don't want you to spell *Everything* out for them. Like with the Joke he told in the beginning, it wouldn't have been better if he finished the last sentence, instead he let you do this for yourself.
The same is true in game design (my area). Struggle to overcome obstacles is essential for a game to be fun and satisfying. But the struggle has to be dished out in manageable bites for the experience to be enjoyable...thus the "they just don't want to know that you're making them do that".
For those who want a whole page of notes, here're mine, in case it serves something. Storytelling is joke telling. It’s knowing your punchline. Your ending. Knowing that everything you're saying, from the first sentence to the last, is leading to a singular goal and ideally confirming some truth that deepens our understandings of who we are as human beings. MAKE ME CARE. Emotionally, intellectually, aesthetically. Make a promise: in the beginning, make a promise to your audience, that this story will lead somewhere that’s worth their time. “A well told promise is like a pebble being pulled back in a slingshot that propels you forward through the story to the end.” The audience wants to work for their meal. They just don’t want to know they’re doing that. Meaning, we want to be given the clues to understand the whole story. We want to be told, what is 2 + 2? But we don't want to be told, 2 + 2 = 4. It’s this well organized absence of information that draws us in. make the audience put things together. The elements you provide and the order you place them in is crucial to whether you succeed or fail at engaging the audience. Give your character a main goal to pursue. All well-drawn characters have a spine. The characters have an inner motor, a dominant, unconscious goal that they’re striving for, an itch that they can’t scratch. Change is fundamental in a story. If things go static, stories die, because life is never static. Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty. When you’re telling a story, have you constructed anticipation? In the short term, have you made me wanna know what will happen next? Have you made me wanna know how it will conclude in the long term? Have you constructed honest conflicts with truth that creates doubt in what the outcome might be? Storytelling has guidelines, not hard rules. Like your main character. We all live life conditionally. Characters can be good, but have a fatal flaw in them, that doesn’t come out unless their one condition for being nice and kind isn’t met anymore. We’re all willing to play by the rules and follow things along, as long as certain conditions are met. After that, all bets are off. Theme in storytelling is having a constant, a guideline, a road map, where all roads eventually lead to. Who are you? Can you invoke wonder? “That’s what I think the magic ingredient is, the secret sauce, is can you invoke wonder. Wonder is honest, it’s completely innocent. It can’t be artificially evoked. For me, there’s no greater ability than the gift of another human being giving you that feeling - to hold them still just for a brief moment in their day and have them surrender to wonder. When it’s tapped, the affirmation of being alive, it reaches you almost to a cellular level. And when an artist does that to another artist,it’s like you’re compelled to pass it on. It’s like a dormant command that suddenly is activated in you, like a call to Devil’s Tower. Do unto others what’s been done to you. The best stories infuse wonder.” - Andrew Stanton Sometimes, characters deserve a second chance. Write from what you know. Draw from it. It doesn’t always mean plot or fact, it means capturing a truth from our experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core. “Be wrong as fast as you can. So the lesser in talent you are the greater in tenacity you must be to persevere."
I was completely at tears, sulking and crying by myself when he mentions the second chance he had gotten from birth, and how it inspired the story of Finding Nemo. Because from my mother's own lips I was told that I too was sick and dying from birth according to 99% of all the Doctors I was taken to they said I had no chance. Except for 1 Doctor who believed that he knew what was wrong and he could help. And Here I am today striving towards what I'm good at. Always Loved Pixar. Now, even more!.
I was completely at tears, sulking and crying by myself when he told that plagiarised joke that's so old it can vote at the beginning of the presentation
1. Promise 2. Make viewers work for their meal 3. Characters has inner motor 4. Anticipation with Uncertainty 5. Add Good character arcs for your characters. With certain conditions are met. 6. Underlying theme. 7. Wonder.
When I saw the part where he explained where the inspiration for the finding memo scene came from I cried more than I did when I actually saw the film. From an aspiring storyteller; thank you for explaining the heart that went into your stories. This is what every writer needs to hear and see to be great at what they dream of doing. Thank you.
I cried like a baby, when you come to understand how a writers own story correlates to the stories they tell you, I think its simply beautiful (if that made sense)
Storytelling is a very difficult craft. Trying to put together the puzzle pieces for it to work is part of the journey. That`s why Andrew`s motto is: "Be wrong as fast as you can. So the lesser in talent you are the greater in tenacity you must be to persevere." They make mistakes in their stories over and over again until they get it right or good enough. The process can lead to discovering and learning more about your character, what works and doesn't, what scenes are more significant, the usage of flashback, backstory, the right voice talent etc. It`s an incredible journey faced with its creative obstacles, for the sake of finding that truth in your story. While there`s no such thing as the perfect script or movie I think that they've managed to come as close to perfection that you can get. And I have to tip my imaginary hat to Pixar. They've managed to travel through this journey proving how powerful the animation medium can be through laughter, charm and a deeper emotional level more so than it was before.
@@82pythons85 well if you look at the whole of Pixar’s movies they’re the best at making heartfelt stories and animated films that doesn’t talk down to their viewers. (especially kids who watch their stuff) just because Lightyear isn’t on par with the rest of their films doesn’t mean the whole studio is bad, you know.
Even after almost 10 years of this video being uploaded, I am rewatching this once in a while, when I am stuck with writing stories, to remind me what great storytelling is and clues to them. Also just realized this was uploaded on my bday lol. Amazing timeless video, Thank you Andrew!
This is The First TedTalk ever that makes me burst into tears, when Andrew said he was sick & his parents still believe in the second chance of his survival. Thank you for bring us so many beautiful movies into our lives Andrew!
You write Toy Story they dont call you the writer of Toy Story. You write WALL-E , they don't call you the writer of WALL-E...but you write one John Carter...
Haha, poor guy. But I bet John Carter is a moving story when you put it in the context of "just a story a guy who's told other great stories wanted us to see," instead of the overhyped Disney mega-movie. A movie expected to live up to blockbuster box office status simply by being a Disney production; & MUST achieve a level of Greatness, or it's automatically declared a "dud."
Fantastic insight. I personally love stories that are open for interpretation and don't spoon feed the meaning right from the start. Leaving room for mystery allows the audience to fill in the gaps with their own imagination.
That's the point: When you can share something personal, something that is yours, with other people through storytelling, you've done a good job. Great insight.
I love Pixar just because of their set of rules. My childhood wouldn't be the same if I only saw classic "I want" song while hating the villain and wondering why there isn't a happy village near home.
@@noahfenech8196 It's why stories can come in many forms and as he said, there's only guidelines for good stories, no rulesets. Now Pixar have their "rulesets" and Disney their own, neither are bad if in the end it creates a good story. I remember someone saying that a great storyteller and story doesn't need to break or complicate the dots (or tropes) the story ultimately revolves around or connects to, but instead what happens inbetween the dots, hows its presented and how you get there can be enough to retell the same story a million times.
This has got to be one of the best TEDtalks for aspiring storytellers. I always visit this every once in a while to motivate myself and remind myself of the clues to a great story.
“Use what you know, draw from your experience.” Thanks for confirming this, sometimes I wonder if it’s gonna work or not, but I guess we can only use what we know, and keep learning more things and telling new stories as we experience even more.
OMG, Lawrence of Arabia. THANK YOU. I spent my teenage years getting up at 5am so I could watch that film before school. REPEATEDLY. I knew every line, every scene, every gesture, back to front. And I tell my kids today and they just shrug. Damn them. Such a brilliant piece of work.
The most profound and thoughtful and well constructed class in story writing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen any of the Pixar films but his remarks on story construction are profound and universal. They apply to all story, from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, Or To Kill a Mickingnird, Steinbeck’s East of Eden, from Wuthering Heights and Rebecca to Casablanca, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, The Godfather, All good novels and films have these themes and structure running through them. This is deep and very impactful - a lot to think about and use.
Stumbling upon this talk was like stumbling upon a piece of gold. Story telling told through excellent story telling. Promise, Punchline, Drama, 2+2...
I was almost in tears when I interviewed Andrew about WALL-E when it was getting ready to release, and I asked him a question, and he treated me like I was a moron and he wouldn't answer the rest of my questions without being completely and utterly condescending. It happened almost 12 years ago, and I still feel insecure when I conduct interviews for my job. He is a great storyteller, I will give him that, but he really hurt my feelings in the beginning of my career, and made me feel like I don't matter.
Nathan If you are still feeling the same way, for what happened 12 years ago then he was right. Where is your personal character arc? you need to change. we need People like him to make us change. Use his brief presence in your life for the positive. No one is bad. Only the situations makes him so.
Not to diminish his well-documented successes at Pixar, but ten years on, this video endures as a stark reminder of how such accomplished people who are masters of their craft can still create a debacle like John Carter of Mars. It's a decent movie, mind; I speak more to what went on behind the scenes. You see, Stanton is part of a brain trust of storytellers at Pixar/Disney, whose members when a movie is pitched, come together and try to point out flaws and other problematic things like plot holes, messy structure, bloated scenes, etc. in the hopes of making the work stand taller, stronger. Stanton was prickly when it came to criticism and would forcefully shoot down objections, a treatment he would give other filmmakers when the shoe was on the other foot and someone else was pitching. In other words, Stanton is an example of the "I'm right, you're wrong. Don't you know who I am?" mentality that sets in when people have a string of hits and become successful for a length of time. He was a consistent money earner at the box office and felt he could not possibly falter. Well, everyone has their blind spots, but John Carter of Mars should be a good lesson about it, about hubris and having too much confidence in yourself that you don't listen to anybody anymore. Tale as old as time. Right, Elon Musk? lol Aside from this, good TED talk. Mine it for the gems.
For such a genuinely inspiring speech the guy deserves an award. He knew what he was talking about had actual results to back it.. Beauty with brains if u ask me.
The Princess Diana thank you today and tomorrow do you have you been up to you today if that is what I co tam u niego niewiesz bo w razie pytań proszę pisać na PW to daj znać mi
This was great and very insightful. I was almost at tears when he showed how he influenced Finding Nemo's story with his own towards the end - a baby given a second chance, one he was given. Makes me want to watch those animated films again.
Most of the concepts Stanton talks about are not new, but he packages them in a delicious way. I think that is one of the subtly best lessons to take from this.
Absolutely incredible! Andrew Stanton, my 2 favorite movies as a child were Toy Story and A Bugs Life. I watched them hundreds of times. Thank you so much for following your passion because it ultimately changed my life.
Watching this helps me “dig a little deeper” 🤫 with how I want to get back into writing. We all have that one story that just needs to be told. Don’t ignore that feeling- just write it. 🎉
Storytelling is joke telling. 1. We all love stories 2. Make me care - give promise that will lead someone says it’s worth your time 3. Storytelling with dialogue 4. Make the audience put things together... give 2 + 2 ... don’t give 4 5. Drama = anticipation + uncertainty 6. MAKE THEM THINKING 7. Use what you know
Just what I needed as a break from typing my first screenplay. Comedy/drama/psych thriller. My soul makes it so easy when the words begin to pour out from my fingers into my computer. Perfect talk for writers block!!!!
My interest was piqued by Andrew Stanton's TED Talk on The Clue to a Great Story because of its focus on the effectiveness of storytelling and its importance of emotional connection. Stanton's delivery excited me since his enthusiasm for storytelling was evident in his expressive gestures and interesting stories. I 100% agree with the idea that great stories are those that inspire us to feel something, as I have personal experience of the deep influence of emotionally stirring stories. I was reminded of the transforming power of storytelling by Stanton's talk, and it inspired me to keep seeking out and delivering tales that make people feel real emotions and connect with others on a deeper level.
At first I had thought 19 minutes to sit through this is a long time then once it began the time just went by soo fast and I REALLY got into this. This was and is amazing and I really greatly enjoyed all that he had said. I am really happy that I had watched this. Thank you ever so truly much for sharing this. This was/is excellent and there was great meaning behind it, things like this are ALWAYS enjoyable and positive. Again, THANK YOU for sharing this.
Fantastic opening, the middle was kind of saturated with facts and knowledge which could have been better explained or broken down but given the time limit he was given, he made this talk really enriching and engaging. Phenomenal ending. Nothing less to expect from one of the best story tellers in the world.
You didn't tell a *better* story by rejecting songs, a love story, and a villain, you just found a different way to tell a story. Aladdin and The Little Mermaid are two of my favorite movies of all time. I like Toy Story a lot, don't get me wrong, but I think I've seen it once or twice. I've seen Aladdin and TLM dozens of times each.
This is undoubtedly incredible! I've been watching a huge amount of videos on RUclips and looking for some incentive on the Internet to try to move myself again because I lost my passion and I thought there wasn't any reason left for me to do anything at all since a very long time. But right about now I found this video and I feel better, I feel that I do have a reason to keep on making my life the way that I've been making it for the las 5 years. That reason is the fact that I, just like everybody, can tell a story that can be invented at all or can have some influences of my own experiences. Thanks a lot to whoever uploaded this video!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:15 🍺 *The Importance of Storytelling* - Storytelling is akin to joke-telling, with a clear punchline or ending. - Stories affirm our lives, providing meaning and connecting us with others. - Mr. Rogers' quote emphasizes the power of learning to love through understanding stories. 02:06 🤔 *Make Me Care: The Essence of Storytelling* - Emphasizes the commandment "Make me care" for effective storytelling. - Viewers are drawn to stories that capture their emotions and interest. - Compares the art of storytelling to capturing attention while channel surfing. 04:44 🎥 *The Promise in Storytelling* - Introduces the concept of making a promise to the audience at the beginning of a story. - Compares it to different ways of starting a story, like "Once upon a time." - A well-told promise propels the audience through the story. 06:33 🍽️ *Audience Engagement through Work* - Highlights the idea that audiences want to work for their emotional engagement. - The importance of hiding the effort required for audience engagement. - Explains the power of storytelling without dialogue in cinematic storytelling. 08:56 🧠 *Character Spines and Inner Motivations* - Explores the concept of character spines and inner motivations. - Provides examples from characters like Michael Corleone, Wall-E, Marlin, and Woody. - Emphasizes the significance of recognizing and steering one's inner drives. 10:20 🎭 *Drama as Anticipation Mingled with Uncertainty* - Defines drama as anticipation mingled with uncertainty. - Stresses the importance of constructing anticipation and conflicts in storytelling. - Gives examples from "Finding Nemo" to illustrate short-term and long-term tensions. 12:43 🤠 *Liking Your Main Character* - Discusses the challenge of making a selfish character likable. - Illustrates how making a character kind, generous, and funny can achieve likability. - Emphasizes the conditional nature of how individuals navigate life. 14:10 🎬 *Theme in Storytelling* - Reflects on the importance of a theme in a story, using "Lawrence of Arabia" as an example. - Describes the theme of "Who are you?" in Lawrence's story. - Highlights the presence of a strong theme in a well-told story. 16:49 🌟 *Invoking Wonder in Storytelling* - Introduces wonder as a major ingredient in storytelling. - Stresses that wonder cannot be artificially evoked, it has to be honest and innocent. - Expresses the power of wonder to reach individuals at a deep, almost cellular level. 18:10 🤲 *Using Personal Experience in Storytelling* - Shares a personal story of a near-death experience and how it influenced storytelling. - Encourages drawing from personal experiences to capture truths. - Concludes with the idea of being worthy of the second chance given in life. Made with HARPA AI
no joke wall e made me cry so hard as a nine year old that i had to stop watching the movie halfway through and exit the theatre. i was just a super emotional kid and the imagery and desolation and the loneliness of wall e and his big robot eyes really broke me lol
Thank You, Andrew, for this excellent video. I am very new at writing stories and eager to learn the craft of writing stories. This content is very helpful and informative. It makes me want to be a storyteller even more. Your delivery is so effective, it makes me sit up and take notice. I am happy and very grateful to have come to this page to see this video and hear your voice. I am inspired... Thank You. :-)
Andrew Stanton is well-known as a movie director. He talked about clues about a great story, relating his personal experience. I was impressed by his talk. He said, “Use what you know. Draw from it. It means capturing from a truth and experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel.” I learned that I should have found my story during my daily life whether if is simple or not. So far, I just found some stories from other people.
"No villain" gives real world power to your story and real world educational value. Many bad things just happen; many (possibly most?) harmful actions from others aren't evil, villainous intent, they are accidents or actions that are good for one purpose but inadvertently harmful for others. Needing to find villains often prevents problem solving -- and even creates problems that weren't there before. No wonder I love Finding Nemo!
increbible. i'm working on a screenplay for film studies a level and my teacher linked our class this video. not a single minute of my time wasted. thank you, sir
So many people whining about a swear word. This is an audience of adults, being spoken to as adults by an adult. The assumption is that nobody gets hurt by "potty mouth". Nobody here was injured.
After watching this video I dried my eyes, called my son, and told him the McGregor story. He was driving. he had to pull over he was laughing so hard. Mind you, I don't approve of gratuitous cussing, it's usually unfocused emotion. Before my son was born my wife had a miscarriage. I stayed by her side for what ever support I could provide, and so I was a witness. She'd lost a lot of blood, and as the nurse was trying to get the needle into her arm she was saying, "Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Vein pain!"
Using "The Clues to a great Story", it encourages me to build strong characters, clear road map to follow, and an underlying theme that will leave readers caring more about my characters than when they started the story (as in a classic story).
I got confused about 12:04. B/c thinking about Toy Story the movie, the village was the toys in the room, the villain was the toy destroying bully, there was an I want moment with song when Buzz Lightyear tried to fly. They also had songs like you got a friend in me. The was Love for the kid and Woody had a thing for the Bo Peep toy. So which story is he talking about.
J. C. Henry The village didn't openly revel in their love for one another / set up the setting blatantly like they would have in a song, the boy Sid was a bad person but the main debilitation for the characters came from themselves - he was basically the dragon that the main characters threw themselves into the den with, the trying to fly scene SEEMED like an "I want" moment but was actually an "I can't" and instead of establishing the characters's motives like an "I want" would it showed the audience and the character himself how he cannot actually reach his grand dreams, the songs are more of a backdrop to the events of the story and Stanton sort of alluded to how Disney insisted there be more songs so that's probably why there's so much Randy Newman in there - note that other than a few central scenes there is much less of a presence in songs in the follow Toy Story films probably due to the success of the first and Disney giving Pixar more trust and those songs are most likely there to continue the themes established in the first film as I cannot recall another Pixar movie that actually has songs like Toy Story does, and the love story he's talking about is that which encompasses most of the plot, and while the main motivation for Woody is to be good for his kid, Buzz's for most of the story is actually to fulfill his inherent role which is paralleled to his delusions of actually being a space man and his determination to complete his mission so while the central drive for one of the main characters is concerned with love the narrative itself is so far from a typical love story that it could not be called one Toy Story is probably the perfect bridge between the conventions of the Disney Renaissance films Stanton mentioned by subverted the expectations audiences would have for animated films and establishing a new and more interesting narrative structure that also set the precedent for the many wonderful Pixar films to follow
I think he meant disney's traditional notes in story structure. Village as an 'actual village', not any other form of environment as the background setting. "I want moment" as a main goal which is "literally told',' dictating audience about the plot. Songs as songs for any character "to sing". Love as love story "between pairs" man-woman or boy-girl, main characters fell in love eventually, or simply I love you ended by you love me. Villain as a main villain "to be defeated by the protagonist to end the story", Sid was an obstacle.
Is it weird that I almost cried while watching this? :) It's just so good. And don't think I didn't notice how he worked those principals into this talk too!!! I see what you did there!!!
The way he described his "Rule of 2+2" made me think of a film called The Bounty Hunter. To put it bluntly, one of the pivotal scenes broke that rule. I groaned SO HARD.
People like to summarize TED talks, which are already too brief. Andrew Stanton has transcended his craft and inspired countless millions to create, dream and dare to envision a compassionate and caring world. I came for tips on how to write my first opus, but I took away something much more meaningful - to make that second chance we are all given mean something.
I'm going to add something to this, in keeping with "Make me care". As the reader/audience member, it's not my job to suspend disbelief. You as the one creating the story must suspend my disbelief. Offer me a plausible world where things make some kind of sense in-universe so I can go along with it. In Finding Nemo, we see a fairly realistic world with the suspension of disbelief coming into play that the fish can all talk to each other. To the adamant non-believer: Prove to me they can't. And riding on the shoulders of so many previous great stories about anthropomorphic animals, this wasn't too hard. I now accept that this could potentially happen. Where does that leave us? 1. We have a world I can imagine really existing because my disbelief has been suspended. 2. I now care about this widowed father and his only son. This rocket is ready to launch. Now, only now, can you add the rest of the story to it. Only now will I be willing to watch the rest of the movie.
"storytelling without dialog" Like _Angry Birds Toons_ . I am amazed sometimes at how much Rovio packs into a cartoon without saying a (real) word. I always kind of assumed that maybe this was deliberate so that anyone who viewed it, regardless of the language they knew, could understand it.
Basically the video talked about A well told story begins with a promise that tells you it is going to worth your time Let the viewers complete de sentence, give them 2 plus 2 not four A main core idea for the character. The nemos father wanted to prevent harm, alpachino wanted to please his father, wallle to find beuty To create Drama you have to let your viewers create anticipation mixed with uncertainly
Notes:
Then audience wants to work for their meal: 2+2
Stories aren't exact or predictable
All well drawn characters have a dominant unconscious goal. Acknowledge what drives you take the wheel and steer it
Change must happen in a story
Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty
An itch they can't scratch
Singular goal
Truth that deepens understanding of who we are
Make me care
Make a promise in the beginning
Stories have guidelines
Like your main character
Theme: "who are you?"
Invoke a sense of wonder
You're welcome
Use what you know and draw from it
Capture a truth from your experiences
Use values you feel deep down to your core
I just wrote my own and then saw your comment .. :D
Cinematic story-telling without words is the purest form of story-telling.
Wow. I was pausing the video to constantly go over to my google doc, to write down the points he raised I felt relevant to help me writing a story. The video finished. I was happy with the work I put in to writing down the key points. Then I went to the comments, always risky on RUclips, only this time it was risky because everything I just spent twice the length of this video writing down, you had written down. Every damn point. Most of them, more succinctly. But what I wanted was to learn something, to write down what I felt was important, and to I guess deep down, feel it was worth the effort. Your comment made me feel it was worth the effort. I wasn't alone in taking note, in note taking.
Thanks!
"The audience wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that you're making them do that" good line, super true
i dont get that line... can you explain it?
A Unicorn
It means that they want to think a bit for themselves and don't want you to spell *Everything* out for them.
Like with the Joke he told in the beginning, it wouldn't have been better if he finished the last sentence, instead he let you do this for yourself.
Freak Master ah I didn't make that connection to the joke till you said it. And in my opinion it made it much funnier that he didn't finish it
@@freakmaster6723 You really should have made him work more for that answer..
The same is true in game design (my area). Struggle to overcome obstacles is essential for a game to be fun and satisfying. But the struggle has to be dished out in manageable bites for the experience to be enjoyable...thus the "they just don't want to know that you're making them do that".
For those who want a whole page of notes, here're mine, in case it serves something.
Storytelling is joke telling. It’s knowing your punchline. Your ending. Knowing that everything you're saying, from the first sentence to the last, is leading to a singular goal and ideally confirming some truth that deepens our understandings of who we are as human beings.
MAKE ME CARE. Emotionally, intellectually, aesthetically.
Make a promise: in the beginning, make a promise to your audience, that this story will lead somewhere that’s worth their time.
“A well told promise is like a pebble being pulled back in a slingshot that propels you forward through the story to the end.”
The audience wants to work for their meal. They just don’t want to know they’re doing that. Meaning, we want to be given the clues to understand the whole story. We want to be told, what is 2 + 2? But we don't want to be told, 2 + 2 = 4. It’s this well organized absence of information that draws us in. make the audience put things together.
The elements you provide and the order you place them in is crucial to whether you succeed or fail at engaging the audience.
Give your character a main goal to pursue. All well-drawn characters have a spine. The characters have an inner motor, a dominant, unconscious goal that they’re striving for, an itch that they can’t scratch.
Change is fundamental in a story. If things go static, stories die, because life is never static.
Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty. When you’re telling a story, have you constructed anticipation? In the short term, have you made me wanna know what will happen next? Have you made me wanna know how it will conclude in the long term?
Have you constructed honest conflicts with truth that creates doubt in what the outcome might be?
Storytelling has guidelines, not hard rules.
Like your main character.
We all live life conditionally. Characters can be good, but have a fatal flaw in them, that doesn’t come out unless their one condition for being nice and kind isn’t met anymore. We’re all willing to play by the rules and follow things along, as long as certain conditions are met. After that, all bets are off.
Theme in storytelling is having a constant, a guideline, a road map, where all roads eventually lead to. Who are you?
Can you invoke wonder?
“That’s what I think the magic ingredient is, the secret sauce, is can you invoke wonder. Wonder is honest, it’s completely innocent. It can’t be artificially evoked. For me, there’s no greater ability than the gift of another human being giving you that feeling - to hold them still just for a brief moment in their day and have them surrender to wonder. When it’s tapped, the affirmation of being alive, it reaches you almost to a cellular level. And when an artist does that to another artist,it’s like you’re compelled to pass it on. It’s like a dormant command that suddenly is activated in you, like a call to Devil’s Tower. Do unto others what’s been done to you. The best stories infuse wonder.” - Andrew Stanton
Sometimes, characters deserve a second chance.
Write from what you know. Draw from it. It doesn’t always mean plot or fact, it means capturing a truth from our experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.
“Be wrong as fast as you can. So the lesser in talent you are the greater in tenacity you must be to persevere."
Thank you for share,we could save 20 minutes with this
Thank you so much for this🙏🙏🥺
thx
thanks my note-taking sucks and i have to come back to rewatch the video over and over.
@@mx-7i-0n5 no you can't
I was completely at tears, sulking and crying by myself when he mentions the second chance he had gotten from birth, and how it inspired the story of Finding Nemo. Because from my mother's own lips I was told that I too was sick and dying from birth according to 99% of all the Doctors I was taken to they said I had no chance. Except for 1 Doctor who believed that he knew what was wrong and he could help.
And Here I am today striving towards what I'm good at.
Always Loved Pixar. Now, even more!.
And that doctors name was Ron Paul.
Sulking and crying… doesn’t seem you’ve gotten too strong.
I was completely at tears, sulking and crying by myself when he told that plagiarised joke that's so old it can vote at the beginning of the presentation
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I think this is the most underrated TED talk ever.
FACTS
How many have you watched.
Nah this aint the one
@@Weebay_213 which one then?
@@MuhammedAasil anyone but this one Mo
1. Promise
2. Make viewers work for their meal
3. Characters has inner motor
4. Anticipation with Uncertainty
5. Add Good character arcs for your characters. With certain conditions are met.
6. Underlying theme.
7. Wonder.
Lol thanks mate for answering my assignment
No problem
why is an underlying theme important
There is also "make them care" he mentioned at first
Ravindu Mirihana uhuu
When I saw the part where he explained where the inspiration for the finding memo scene came from I cried more than I did when I actually saw the film. From an aspiring storyteller; thank you for explaining the heart that went into your stories. This is what every writer needs to hear and see to be great at what they dream of doing.
Thank you.
Memo :]
Nemo*
Same here mate
*Finding a memo from your younger self telling you to follow your dreams.
I cried like a baby, when you come to understand how a writers own story correlates to the stories they tell you, I think its simply beautiful (if that made sense)
That’s curious how he told a story while he was telling us how to tell a story...
Storinception
Always tell a story, I think that's a good way of interacting with people.
Well, that was obviously intended.
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Omg
Storytelling is a very difficult craft. Trying to put together the puzzle pieces for it to work is part of the journey. That`s why Andrew`s motto is: "Be wrong as fast as you can. So the lesser in talent you are the greater in tenacity you must be to persevere."
They make mistakes in their stories over and over again until they get it right or good enough. The process can lead to discovering and learning more about your character, what works and doesn't, what scenes are more significant, the usage of flashback, backstory, the right voice talent etc.
It`s an incredible journey faced with its creative obstacles, for the sake of finding that truth in your story. While there`s no such thing as the perfect script or movie I think that they've managed to come as close to perfection that you can get. And I have to tip my imaginary hat to Pixar. They've managed to travel through this journey proving how powerful the animation medium can be through laughter, charm and a deeper emotional level more so than it was before.
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Pixar, really!?
Yeah, “Lightyear” seems like the next “Godfather” 🤣
@@82pythons85 well if you look at the whole of Pixar’s movies they’re the best at making heartfelt stories and animated films that doesn’t talk down to their viewers. (especially kids who watch their stuff) just because Lightyear isn’t on par with the rest of their films doesn’t mean the whole studio is bad, you know.
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Even after almost 10 years of this video being uploaded, I am rewatching this once in a while, when I am stuck with writing stories, to remind me what great storytelling is and clues to them. Also just realized this was uploaded on my bday lol. Amazing timeless video, Thank you Andrew!
This is The First TedTalk ever that makes me burst into tears, when Andrew said he was sick & his parents still believe in the second chance of his survival. Thank you for bring us so many beautiful movies into our lives Andrew!
You write Toy Story they dont call you the writer of Toy Story. You write WALL-E , they don't call you the writer of WALL-E...but you write one John Carter...
all that means is he should stick with his amazing ability in animation story. the world has enough mediocre drama
+Karthik Nair hahaha good one
+Karthik Nair Haa! I like John Carter though. There's a great story in there.
XD 😜😜😜😆😂🙂👍🏽👍🏽🙃🙃
Haha, poor guy. But I bet John Carter is a moving story when you put it in the context of "just a story a guy who's told other great stories wanted us to see," instead of the overhyped Disney mega-movie.
A movie expected to live up to blockbuster box office status simply by being a Disney production; & MUST achieve a level of Greatness, or it's automatically declared a "dud."
He just told us his life story while giving us a lesson in screenwriting. That’s what good teachers do.
That first scene of Finding Nemo is one of the only things that can make me truly cry every time I see it.
@D I'm genuinely curious how you end up on a video like this if you don't care about the emotional impact stories can have on people
Virgin energy is strong with this one
This is absolutely one of the best talks I've ever watched.
Pixar people are geniuses
Fantastic insight. I personally love stories that are open for interpretation and don't spoon feed the meaning right from the start. Leaving room for mystery allows the audience to fill in the gaps with their own imagination.
you should check out a story called "franks chair" by a group called 2nu
+Micah Buzan Miyazaki was a master of this
*still is
i agreeeee
Here! Here! Kubrick has said that's how he wants his movies to come across. Open to personal interpretation.
He tells you how to tell a story by telling you a story, oh what a story.
Yep
Yournale the medicinev
And by showing toy story
That's the point: When you can share something personal, something that is yours, with other people through storytelling, you've done a good job. Great insight.
This man is a genius. He opened my eyes more times in a single 20 minute lecture than all my years of school. Truly phenomenal. Truly inspiring.
I love Pixar just because of their set of rules. My childhood wouldn't be the same if I only saw classic "I want" song while hating the villain and wondering why there isn't a happy village near home.
To be fair, the classic Disney formula does work, Moana was still good and had all those tropes
@@noahfenech8196 It's why stories can come in many forms and as he said, there's only guidelines for good stories, no rulesets. Now Pixar have their "rulesets" and Disney their own, neither are bad if in the end it creates a good story.
I remember someone saying that a great storyteller and story doesn't need to break or complicate the dots (or tropes) the story ultimately revolves around or connects to, but instead what happens inbetween the dots, hows its presented and how you get there can be enough to retell the same story a million times.
Exactly
This has got to be one of the best TEDtalks for aspiring storytellers. I always visit this every once in a while to motivate myself and remind myself of the clues to a great story.
I like the scene of Wall E and Eve. They didn't talk anything, but with the music and scene, it told everything.
This is truthly 2 + 2
"Whatever I ended up been good at,
I would strive to be worthy of the second chance I was given."
I can feel that...
“Use what you know, draw from your experience.” Thanks for confirming this, sometimes I wonder if it’s gonna work or not, but I guess we can only use what we know, and keep learning more things and telling new stories as we experience even more.
at 12:30 did anyone think of Barbosa's line from Pirates of the Caribbean "They're more like guidelines than actual rules."?
I did. In fact, I posted it in the comments section. Heehee.
I found that line funny.
OMG, Lawrence of Arabia. THANK YOU. I spent my teenage years getting up at 5am so I could watch that film before school. REPEATEDLY. I knew every line, every scene, every gesture, back to front. And I tell my kids today and they just shrug. Damn them. Such a brilliant piece of work.
😊👍
Good luck with your writing career! I hope I can achieve same.
The most profound and thoughtful and well constructed class in story writing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen any of the Pixar films but his remarks on story construction are profound and universal. They apply to all story, from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, Or To Kill a Mickingnird, Steinbeck’s East of Eden, from Wuthering Heights and Rebecca to Casablanca, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, The Godfather, All good novels and films have these themes and structure running through them. This is deep and very impactful - a lot to think about and use.
Stumbling upon this talk was like stumbling upon a piece of gold. Story telling told through excellent story telling. Promise, Punchline, Drama, 2+2...
I find myself coming back to this video over and over again. Andrew Stanton is a genius.
I was almost in tears when I interviewed Andrew about WALL-E when it was getting ready to release, and I asked him a question, and he treated me like I was a moron and he wouldn't answer the rest of my questions without being completely and utterly condescending. It happened almost 12 years ago, and I still feel insecure when I conduct interviews for my job. He is a great storyteller, I will give him that, but he really hurt my feelings in the beginning of my career, and made me feel like I don't matter.
Nathan If you are still feeling the same way, for what happened 12 years ago then he was right. Where is your personal character arc? you need to change. we need People like him to make us change. Use his brief presence in your life for the positive. No one is bad. Only the situations makes him so.
This comment by Nathan seems bogus as the timing seems off. Isn't Wall-E from 2008? Why would you call him Andrew. Seems like a personal beef.
I am a person who watches a lot of TED Talks in his free time for no good reason, and I can say this was one of the best ones I have ever watched.
Not to diminish his well-documented successes at Pixar, but ten years on, this video endures as a stark reminder of how such accomplished people who are masters of their craft can still create a debacle like John Carter of Mars. It's a decent movie, mind; I speak more to what went on behind the scenes. You see, Stanton is part of a brain trust of storytellers at Pixar/Disney, whose members when a movie is pitched, come together and try to point out flaws and other problematic things like plot holes, messy structure, bloated scenes, etc. in the hopes of making the work stand taller, stronger. Stanton was prickly when it came to criticism and would forcefully shoot down objections, a treatment he would give other filmmakers when the shoe was on the other foot and someone else was pitching. In other words, Stanton is an example of the "I'm right, you're wrong. Don't you know who I am?" mentality that sets in when people have a string of hits and become successful for a length of time. He was a consistent money earner at the box office and felt he could not possibly falter. Well, everyone has their blind spots, but John Carter of Mars should be a good lesson about it, about hubris and having too much confidence in yourself that you don't listen to anybody anymore. Tale as old as time. Right, Elon Musk? lol Aside from this, good TED talk. Mine it for the gems.
the fact that this TED talk was filmed (or posted??) on my birthday makes this talk double special. Loved every minute.
For such a genuinely inspiring speech the guy deserves an award. He knew what he was talking about had actual results to back it.. Beauty with brains if u ask me.
Bro he won 2 Oscars for Finding Nemo and Wall-E
"Change is essential for stories. Without it, stories die."
Tell that to the Silicon Valley writers
Bill Gates?! Ty masz jakieś drobne?!
N jak się c t b to nie e jak tam wasze pytania?!b was b!;im Like the some domena internetowa?; Make mąkę przesiać mąkę przesiać mąkę przesiać z nas &_
The Princess Diana thank you today and tomorrow do you have you been up to you today if that is what I co tam u niego niewiesz bo w razie pytań proszę pisać na PW to daj znać mi
This was great and very insightful. I was almost at tears when he showed how he influenced Finding Nemo's story with his own towards the end - a baby given a second chance, one he was given. Makes me want to watch those animated films again.
The best reminder of why I'm a writer ever; bloody brilliant.
Didnt you die sometime last century?
One of the best talks on storytelling. One of the best TED Talks!
Most of the concepts Stanton talks about are not new, but he packages them in a delicious way. I think that is one of the subtly best lessons to take from this.
Andrew Stanton has a great mind for storytelling.
True
That makes him an animation god, he's one of my idols
@@marcodiaz6322 same
This is, hands down all the way to my soles, the best TED talk I have ever seen.
The “dancing” scene in walle is epic. Beautiful masterpiece
Absolutely incredible! Andrew Stanton, my 2 favorite movies as a child were Toy Story and A Bugs Life. I watched them hundreds of times. Thank you so much for following your passion because it ultimately changed my life.
Watching this helps me “dig a little deeper” 🤫 with how I want to get back into writing. We all have that one story that just needs to be told. Don’t ignore that feeling- just write it. 🎉
This man created the nearly perfect movie of all time. What a legend
Yes, toy story
@@NeverSaySandwich1Not Just That Finding Nemo And Finding Dory Too 🔥
Storytelling is joke telling.
1. We all love stories
2. Make me care - give promise that will lead someone says it’s worth your time
3. Storytelling with dialogue
4. Make the audience put things together... give 2 + 2 ... don’t give 4
5. Drama = anticipation + uncertainty
6. MAKE THEM THINKING
7. Use what you know
Thanks
4th plz please explain in detailed way
@@sarasvathip68t’s basically the “show don’t tell” method. If you don’t know you can look it up
Nemo and Wall-E are both masterpieces
My English teacher sent this to me and didn't realize it had that at the beginning. xD
and did you answer questions about this video?
@@bassolebabounestor8471 that’s why I’m here rn😂😂😂
@@twinkletoes875 🤣🤣😂
This is a fantastic TED. I was not expecting it to be this good. Many insights provided, totally worth your time.
Just what I needed as a break from typing my first screenplay. Comedy/drama/psych thriller. My soul makes it so easy when the words begin to pour out from my fingers into my computer. Perfect talk for writers block!!!!
Loved it when he said “drama is anticipation. How do you construct anticipation... what’ll happen next? “
My interest was piqued by Andrew Stanton's TED Talk on The Clue to a Great Story because of its focus on the effectiveness of storytelling and its importance of emotional connection. Stanton's delivery excited me since his enthusiasm for storytelling was evident in his expressive gestures and interesting stories. I 100% agree with the idea that great stories are those that inspire us to feel something, as I have personal experience of the deep influence of emotionally stirring stories. I was reminded of the transforming power of storytelling by Stanton's talk, and it inspired me to keep seeking out and delivering tales that make people feel real emotions and connect with others on a deeper level.
At first I had thought 19 minutes to sit through this is a long time then once it began the time just went by soo fast and I REALLY got into this. This was and is amazing and I really greatly enjoyed all that he had said. I am really happy that I had watched this. Thank you ever so truly much for sharing this. This was/is excellent and there was great meaning behind it, things like this are ALWAYS enjoyable and positive. Again, THANK YOU for sharing this.
Love the working for your meal, 2+2 rule, and giving your character a spine
This really is the single most important lesson ever learned as an advertiser. Thanks.
Great talk! One of the best on Ted.
Fantastic opening, the middle was kind of saturated with facts and knowledge which could have been better explained or broken down but given the time limit he was given, he made this talk really enriching and engaging. Phenomenal ending. Nothing less to expect from one of the best story tellers in the world.
You didn't tell a *better* story by rejecting songs, a love story, and a villain, you just found a different way to tell a story. Aladdin and The Little Mermaid are two of my favorite movies of all time. I like Toy Story a lot, don't get me wrong, but I think I've seen it once or twice. I've seen Aladdin and TLM dozens of times each.
Beautiful. I've always been mesmerized by Pixar`s wonderful work. This has to be the most honest and purest form of storytelling there is.
The part about invoking a surrender to wonder in other people was my favorite. Such a beautiful talk!
Andrew Stanton is a genius. Finding Nemo is one of the greatest movies ever made.
This is by far my favourite TED talk and it only has 12k views. What a shame
This is undoubtedly incredible! I've been watching a huge amount of videos on RUclips and looking for some incentive on the Internet to try to move myself again because I lost my passion and I thought there wasn't any reason left for me to do anything at all since a very long time.
But right about now I found this video and I feel better, I feel that I do have a reason to keep on making my life the way that I've been making it for the las 5 years.
That reason is the fact that I, just like everybody, can tell a story that can be invented at all or can have some influences of my own experiences.
Thanks a lot to whoever uploaded this video!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:15 🍺 *The Importance of Storytelling*
- Storytelling is akin to joke-telling, with a clear punchline or ending.
- Stories affirm our lives, providing meaning and connecting us with others.
- Mr. Rogers' quote emphasizes the power of learning to love through understanding stories.
02:06 🤔 *Make Me Care: The Essence of Storytelling*
- Emphasizes the commandment "Make me care" for effective storytelling.
- Viewers are drawn to stories that capture their emotions and interest.
- Compares the art of storytelling to capturing attention while channel surfing.
04:44 🎥 *The Promise in Storytelling*
- Introduces the concept of making a promise to the audience at the beginning of a story.
- Compares it to different ways of starting a story, like "Once upon a time."
- A well-told promise propels the audience through the story.
06:33 🍽️ *Audience Engagement through Work*
- Highlights the idea that audiences want to work for their emotional engagement.
- The importance of hiding the effort required for audience engagement.
- Explains the power of storytelling without dialogue in cinematic storytelling.
08:56 🧠 *Character Spines and Inner Motivations*
- Explores the concept of character spines and inner motivations.
- Provides examples from characters like Michael Corleone, Wall-E, Marlin, and Woody.
- Emphasizes the significance of recognizing and steering one's inner drives.
10:20 🎭 *Drama as Anticipation Mingled with Uncertainty*
- Defines drama as anticipation mingled with uncertainty.
- Stresses the importance of constructing anticipation and conflicts in storytelling.
- Gives examples from "Finding Nemo" to illustrate short-term and long-term tensions.
12:43 🤠 *Liking Your Main Character*
- Discusses the challenge of making a selfish character likable.
- Illustrates how making a character kind, generous, and funny can achieve likability.
- Emphasizes the conditional nature of how individuals navigate life.
14:10 🎬 *Theme in Storytelling*
- Reflects on the importance of a theme in a story, using "Lawrence of Arabia" as an example.
- Describes the theme of "Who are you?" in Lawrence's story.
- Highlights the presence of a strong theme in a well-told story.
16:49 🌟 *Invoking Wonder in Storytelling*
- Introduces wonder as a major ingredient in storytelling.
- Stresses that wonder cannot be artificially evoked, it has to be honest and innocent.
- Expresses the power of wonder to reach individuals at a deep, almost cellular level.
18:10 🤲 *Using Personal Experience in Storytelling*
- Shares a personal story of a near-death experience and how it influenced storytelling.
- Encourages drawing from personal experiences to capture truths.
- Concludes with the idea of being worthy of the second chance given in life.
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By far the best explanation of what elements a great story should have. Great job!!
no joke wall e made me cry so hard as a nine year old that i had to stop watching the movie halfway through and exit the theatre. i was just a super emotional kid and the imagery and desolation and the loneliness of wall e and his big robot eyes really broke me lol
Dude you should have stayed the visuals in wall-e were cinematic royalty
softy ;)
Thank You, Andrew, for this excellent video. I am very new at writing stories and eager to learn the craft of writing stories. This content is very helpful and informative. It makes me want to be a storyteller even more. Your delivery is so effective, it makes me sit up and take notice. I am happy and very grateful to have come to this page to see this video and hear your voice. I am inspired... Thank You. :-)
Good for you. It's now a year after you wrote that and I hope you've kept at it.
I have been watched this video for many time. It's so inspiring and whenever it reaches to the end of this video, I kind of feel sad.
Same bro
Fellow #writers, invest 20 minutes to learn a few tips on telling a good story.
Andrew Stanton is well-known as a movie director. He talked about clues about a great story, relating his personal experience. I was impressed by his talk. He said, “Use what you know. Draw from it. It means capturing from a truth and experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel.” I learned that I should have found my story during my daily life whether if is simple or not. So far, I just found some stories from other people.
Listening intently on each word as his origin story comes to its climax and.......wait, did he say he was born with teeth?
black teeth.
Maybe he meant gums, you could tell he fumbled his words a bit throughout the talk
He was reading a script from the floor gizmos
"No villain" gives real world power to your story and real world educational value. Many bad things just happen; many (possibly most?) harmful actions from others aren't evil, villainous intent, they are accidents or actions that are good for one purpose but inadvertently harmful for others. Needing to find villains often prevents problem solving -- and even creates problems that weren't there before. No wonder I love Finding Nemo!
Of all the storys that have ever been told in film, television and life........ That was probably the best one lol
increbible. i'm working on a screenplay for film studies a level and my teacher linked our class this video. not a single minute of my time wasted. thank you, sir
the finding Memo part 😭😭😭😭😭
fucking auto correct. *Nemo
Watching this video from Tanzania 🇹🇿
So many people whining about a swear word. This is an audience of adults, being spoken to as adults by an adult. The assumption is that nobody gets hurt by "potty mouth". Nobody here was injured.
After watching this video I dried my eyes, called my son, and told him the McGregor story. He was driving. he had to pull over he was laughing so hard.
Mind you, I don't approve of gratuitous cussing, it's usually unfocused emotion. Before my son was born my wife had a miscarriage. I stayed by her side for what ever support I could provide, and so I was a witness. She'd lost a lot of blood, and as the nurse was trying to get the needle into her arm she was saying, "Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Vein pain!"
Using "The Clues to a great Story", it encourages me to build strong characters, clear road map to follow, and an underlying theme that will leave readers caring more about my characters than when they started the story (as in a classic story).
I.....kinda liked.......John Carter. Please don't crucify me.
+Sean Johnson (dragon fo eva) I know, right? I actually thought it was great - a little long, but great.
furyberserk Yeah, it's not a perfect movie at all, but it is a guilty pleasure for me.
+Sean Johnson (dragon fo eva) I liked John Carter too!
+Sean Johnson (dragon fo eva) i wanted it to like me... i just could´t
+Sean Johnson (dragon fo eva) I worship Lynn Collins as she appears in that movie. Good lord.
Got to love that opening joke. MAN, this is an incredible talk, as a writer it means so much to hear words of wisdom through a master like this.
John Carter is massively underrated.
Espetacular. o Sr. Stanton. Será ele um terráqueo? Thank you for Wall-E !
I got confused about 12:04. B/c thinking about Toy Story the movie, the village was the toys in the room, the villain was the toy destroying bully, there was an I want moment with song when Buzz Lightyear tried to fly. They also had songs like you got a friend in me. The was Love for the kid and Woody had a thing for the Bo Peep toy. So which story is he talking about.
J. C. Henry The village didn't openly revel in their love for one another / set up the setting blatantly like they would have in a song, the boy Sid was a bad person but the main debilitation for the characters came from themselves - he was basically the dragon that the main characters threw themselves into the den with, the trying to fly scene SEEMED like an "I want" moment but was actually an "I can't" and instead of establishing the characters's motives like an "I want" would it showed the audience and the character himself how he cannot actually reach his grand dreams, the songs are more of a backdrop to the events of the story and Stanton sort of alluded to how Disney insisted there be more songs so that's probably why there's so much Randy Newman in there - note that other than a few central scenes there is much less of a presence in songs in the follow Toy Story films probably due to the success of the first and Disney giving Pixar more trust and those songs are most likely there to continue the themes established in the first film as I cannot recall another Pixar movie that actually has songs like Toy Story does, and the love story he's talking about is that which encompasses most of the plot, and while the main motivation for Woody is to be good for his kid, Buzz's for most of the story is actually to fulfill his inherent role which is paralleled to his delusions of actually being a space man and his determination to complete his mission so while the central drive for one of the main characters is concerned with love the narrative itself is so far from a typical love story that it could not be called one
Toy Story is probably the perfect bridge between the conventions of the Disney Renaissance films Stanton mentioned by subverted the expectations audiences would have for animated films and establishing a new and more interesting narrative structure that also set the precedent for the many wonderful Pixar films to follow
I think he meant disney's traditional notes in story structure. Village as an 'actual village', not any other form of environment as the background setting. "I want moment" as a main goal which is "literally told',' dictating audience about the plot. Songs as songs for any character "to sing". Love as love story "between pairs" man-woman or boy-girl, main characters fell in love eventually, or simply I love you ended by you love me. Villain as a main villain "to be defeated by the protagonist to end the story", Sid was an obstacle.
One of the best Ted videos ever, and I've watched a few... 9/10
John Carter is amazing. I suddenly care about where this talk is going.
Is it weird that I almost cried while watching this? :) It's just so good. And don't think I didn't notice how he worked those principals into this talk too!!! I see what you did there!!!
He is amazing
The way he described his "Rule of 2+2" made me think of a film called The Bounty Hunter. To put it bluntly, one of the pivotal scenes broke that rule. I groaned SO HARD.
I JUST STOPPED MANICURING MY NAILS WHEN I GOT TO KNOW U WERE PART OF WALL:E… I am FOCUSING, MASTER!!!!!
Lol you're a riot
one of the best ted talks ever. period.
Loved this talk, took notes. Thank you!
People like to summarize TED talks, which are already too brief. Andrew Stanton has transcended his craft and inspired countless millions to create, dream and dare to envision a compassionate and caring world. I came for tips on how to write my first opus, but I took away something much more meaningful - to make that second chance we are all given mean something.
He is very intelligent
I'm going to add something to this, in keeping with "Make me care".
As the reader/audience member, it's not my job to suspend disbelief. You as the one creating the story must suspend my disbelief. Offer me a plausible world where things make some kind of sense in-universe so I can go along with it.
In Finding Nemo, we see a fairly realistic world with the suspension of disbelief coming into play that the fish can all talk to each other. To the adamant non-believer: Prove to me they can't.
And riding on the shoulders of so many previous great stories about anthropomorphic animals, this wasn't too hard. I now accept that this could potentially happen.
Where does that leave us?
1. We have a world I can imagine really existing because my disbelief has been suspended.
2. I now care about this widowed father and his only son.
This rocket is ready to launch. Now, only now, can you add the rest of the story to it. Only now will I be willing to watch the rest of the movie.
"storytelling without dialog"
Like _Angry Birds Toons_ . I am amazed sometimes at how much Rovio packs into a cartoon without saying a (real) word. I always kind of assumed that maybe this was deliberate so that anyone who viewed it, regardless of the language they knew, could understand it.
Greatest TED Talk ever. Not just saying that because WALL-E is my alter-ego.
Basically the video talked about
A well told story begins with a promise that tells you it is going to worth your time
Let the viewers complete de sentence, give them 2 plus 2 not four
A main core idea for the character. The nemos father wanted to prevent harm, alpachino wanted to please his father, wallle to find beuty
To create Drama you have to let your viewers create anticipation mixed with uncertainly
A strong theme, core idea
Create wonder
Bambi gave him wonder and the need to give wonder to the others as a storyteller. The movie who did that to me was finding nemo...
Anyone else a little shook by that Woody yelling at Slinky bit?
Life and storytelling all worked for my interest in storytelling and to apply in my life. Thank you ANDREW Stanton and TED team.