Video: Don Roos

When Don Roos says – almost as a throwaway – “For me, all those characters are me“, I thought he mentioned something that writers are not often reminded of. He goes on to say: “There’s a lot of very specific people inside.” I like his perspective.

The picture quality is not particularly good – not in the day of HD and 3D – but there are a few gems in this piece of video.

Enjoy!

Thank you to Louise Tan.

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Structure: Toy Story 1

In his book Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, Paul Gulino offers an excellent analysis of Toy Story 1, based upon the tools of anticipation.  The breakdown below follows this almost religiously, except only for some minor details. Apart from the division in 3 acts and 8 sequences, later I will also indicate how some story points … Read more

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