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Lesson 6: Pitching and feedback | 6Introduction to pitching and feedback
Introduction to pitching and feedback.
Want to join the conversation?
- what if you don't really have anyone you can pitch your ideas to?(6 votes)
- Perhaps you think there's nobody to pitch to... but unless you live in Antarctica that's not true. If you go to school, you can pitch to a classmate or a teacher. If you have a job, you can pitch to a coworker. Do you have friends? I would hope so! (; Pitch it to them. Pitch it to your parents. Pitch it to yourself! Pitch it to random people on the street and hope they don't call the police!(20 votes)
- Is it just me or every time they say pitch i think of baceball(8 votes)
- I wonder if just for all people, should we use our imagination completely or to use ideas from other books, audiobooks, and videos, or both? I can see the benefits of all these sides but I don't know which one is better.(3 votes)
- Well, obviously you want to avoid plagiarism, but getting inspired by things, whether books, music, or everyday life is how writers get their ideas. So while copying is of course a bad idea, I think we're all influenced by things we hear, watch, read, etc. That said, coming up with ideas that don't resemble anything else that you can think of is great too. So really, I don't think either is better or worse than the other. They're just different - do whatever works best for you!(6 votes)
- Anybody else feel like they were just making a movie and gave us a spoiler of the movie thats about to come in the near future?(5 votes)
- I'm curious to see the entire story involving the cowboys featured in this video. Is there any way I could see the full version?(3 votes)
- I think the story involving the cowboys was a slightly altered version of Toy Story.(3 votes)
- What if there was a mouse in this?(3 votes)
- Now you're thinking!(2 votes)
- Hey one of those looked like the new movie SOUL!(3 votes)
- Would be toy story more intersting if woody be the villan but turns good(3 votes)
- Hey what’s a good story idea I’m stuck?(2 votes)
- Maybe you could try using your imagination or look at more articles,stories,magazines, and comic books.(3 votes)
- I've learned quickly that stories can change in some drastic ways. When I first started my untitled rabbit story, Haze and Break didn't exist, N was the villain, and the character Nightmare was the main character.(2 votes)
Video transcript
(classical music) - A good story. It had all the things I love in a book, great characters, an interesting world, a compelling plot, but I'm sure it didn't
start out this great. Sometimes a Pixar story
will start one way, and by the time it
reaches the final version you see onscreen, it's become something really different. Did you know, in early
versions of Toy Story Woody was a ventriloquist dummy and not the nicest toy in the box. - All right, all right, all right! Save your batteries people. - Or that Sulley was an aspiring dentist in the first version
of Monsters University. In early versions of Coco, our main character wasn't called Miguel. He was Sam, and he
didn't even play guitar. The film wasn't even about music. Good stories don't just pop
out of our heads fully formed. (silly music) Great stories take many tries
and often a few false starts. (silly music) Every single Pixar story is the result of imagining and re-imagining,
drawing and redrawing. But, how do you know if
your story's working? At Pixar we start by pitching, or telling, our story, early and often
in the filmmaking process. We tell the story to
ourselves in the mirror or as we drive to work. - The cowboy and a robot
and maybe another cowboy. - We pitch to that girl
from the gym whose name we're pretty sure is Nadine. We pitch to other artists. - There's the bad boy with the cat. - Pitching is a little like standup comedy but with pictures. And like standup comedy, we can gauge how our stories are doing by the reaction of the audience. Do they look confused? Do they understand what's
going on in our story? We ask for feedback. Not everyone will get
what you're going for. - I don't really get it. - Some people will really
like what you've done. - You know, I really love the cowboys. - And you may hear two
completely different opinions about your story. - Have you thought of
just having one cowboy? - By doing this process of pitching and refining our stories
we make them better. Could a drawing be clearer
or more entertaining? Does the order of the
shots need to change? We ask these questions
and edit our stories. At Pixar we always say
we don't draw movies, we redraw movies. Sharing and rethinking our
stories is a part of the process. As you start making stories of your own, don't be afraid to ask, what if? - What if there was a dog in this? - And keep pushing for the
best story you can make. (old Hollywood music)