Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling | Important rules for your story writing | photographycinema

      Hello everyone. Welcome to photographycinema. I hope you all safe in this pandemic. Here we will see about some important intresting points that was given by Pixar's. If you want to know this, then you have been came to the right place. Let's see step by step all things and points about Pixar's.

First the question you need to know is,

What is Pixar?

     You guys all know marvel studios right! It is a production house. Like that Pixar is a animation production company. Finding Nemo, finding Dory, toys, cars etc like these more of the animation movies are made by Pixar studios.

The next question that comes to your mind is,

Who invented these rules?

      A person who works in the company named as Emma, she put a tweet on 2013. The tweet is about " 22 rules of storytelling ". In early Pixar's company's director, producers and workers are held some meetings and discuss many points about filmmaking. 

     By these types of conversation they pick some important points and named it as " 22 rules of storytelling ". First it was named as 22 rules of storytelling but, people framed it as Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling because of the Pixar company.

     I think you understood how it is made, without wasting time let's get into the rules.

Pixar's 22 rules of storytelling

1. You admire a character for trying more than for their success.

2. You gotta keep in mind what's intresting to you as a an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. That can be very different.

3. Trying for theme is important, but you won't see what the story is actually about till you're at the end of it. Now rewrite.

4. Once upon a time there was         . Everyday        . One day        . Because of that        . Because of that        . Until finally         .

5. Simply. Focus. Combine characters. Hope over detours. You'll feel like you are losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.

6. What is your characters good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?

7. Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.

8. Finish your story, let go even if it's not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on, do better next time.

9. When you're stuck, make a list of what WOULDN'T happen next. Lost of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.

10. Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in theme is a part of you: you've got to recognise it before you can use it.

11. Putting it on paper let's you should fixing. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you'll never share it with anyone.

12. Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the end 3rd, 4th, 5th- get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.

13. Give your character's opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it's poison to the audience.

14. Why must you tell THIS story? What's the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That's the heart of it.

15. If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honestly lends creditabilty to unbelievable situations.

16. What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happen if they don't succeed? Stack the odds against.

17. No work is ever wasted. If it's not working, let go and move on. It'll come back around to be useful later.

18. You have to know yourself: The difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.

19. Coincidence to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.

20. Exercise : Take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How will you rearrange them into what would you do like?

21. You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can't just write 'cool'. What would make you act that way?

22. What's the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.

Conclusion

     Here we see the 22 rules of storytelling by Pixar's. In these points they commonly mentioning about the writing. They saying that keep on writing, one day you'll achieve it. That is also I am saying to you. Stay clam, have a clear mind and Start writing your story. One day you will finish it with a good intention.

     I hope this blog post will help you improve your writing skills. See our other post related to writing and filmmaking, photography. Follow these rules and share your experiences with us. If you have any questions or doubts please contact us or comment below. Subscribe our blog with your gmail id to get updates and notification through your Gmail application. All the best for your story writing.

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