Pixar in a Box: Introduction to Storytelling Video Lecture | Understanding the art of Public Speaking: Become a better speaker - Self Help Learning

hey Pete hi hey Belle how's it gone you
know what I'm I'm having a really bad
day
what happened see what Val saying when
she says what happened is tell me a
story
and that's actually what this season the
pics are in a box is all about to make a
movie here at Pixar takes years but it
all starts with a story humans have been
telling stories since we could speak
probably even before we tell stories
around the campfire we write plays we
write novels short stories we make
movies we take photographs tweet to each
other the list goes on the power of
story is that it has an ability to
connect with people on an emotional
level one of the things you hear all the
time this advice is write what you know
now as a kid I was like I don't want to
write about suburban Minnesota that's
boring I want to write about explosions
and monsters and car chases well what
that actually means is yeah go ahead and
write about monsters and explosions and
car chases but put something into it
that talks about your own life how you
feel do you feel scared do you feel
alone something from your own life will
make that story come alive and not just
be a boring car chase when I started
directing monsters incorporated the way
I'd pitch it is it's about a monster who
scares kids for a living pizzas job he
clocks in and he clocks out eats donuts
and talks about union dues and we
thought that was a pretty funny idea and
sure enough when I would tell it to
people they would smile but when we told
the story as a film people started
getting bored and restless and they're
like I don't understand what this movie
is about well what I finally figured out
was that it's actually not about a
monster who scares kids it's about a man
becoming a father that was what was
happening to me so why write about what
you know well it's because probably what
happened to you made you feel some
particular way and what you're trying to
do really when you tell a story is to
get the audience to have that same
feeling one of the big revelations for
me telling stories is how much work they
are really I always thought you just
tell the story once and it would be
perfect than geniuses like Walt is
near miyazaki this brilliance comes out
of their had once and there it is well
the truth is our stories don't always
come out exactly perfectly the first
time or the second time or the third
time or the fourth day up to the 30th
time and so you keep going again and
again and again and only after retelling
the story many many times does it really
Sparkle this season of Pixar in a box is
about how we at Pixar tell our stories
in hopes that it will inspire you to
tell yours but seriously what happened
oh oh so the first thing I get to my
desk right it's eight o'clock