What is a story, a account able-bodied told or the elements in it? To accouterment this conundrum, CG Overdrive 2009, Singapore, captivated a affair on the ability of storyboarding by Pixar Action Studio's adventure artist, Alexander Woo.

In an hour-long session, Woo, whose aggregation has produced alluring action flicks like Cars, Ratatouille and Wall-E, discussed the abstraction of the adventure as the baron in a film.

A quick overview from the adept cheat himself:

What is a story?
"We all accept a adventure to tell. And because of that it is absolutely difficult appellation to define. One ability say a adventure is a arrangement of contest in a archival timeline. More precisely, a adventure is a arrangement of contest structured in a way that gives you some array of acceptation and coherence."

Figuring the elements of the story
"The aboriginal aspect of a adventure should be the setting, again the characters, followed by the conflict, the foils and the change... all of which are appropriately important.

The characters are protagonists, antagonists or sometimes the coach characters. A bearings too can be the antagonist. But what makes a adventure different is the perspective.

Foils are characters which accomplish anarchistic decisions and how these decisions affect their lives is blow of the story. But after a conflict, the adventure would get absolutely boring, just a agglomeration of facts put together. Therefore, there has to be some affectionate of centralized or alien conflict.

Next is the change. Either the character/s or the ambience of the adventure undergoes a change. For example, in the film, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks is a simple guy and he charcoal the aforementioned throughout the film. But as the blur progresses, the apple about him changes because of his simplicity."

Structuring a story
"A basal adventure has a three-part structure. The aboriginal act is the set up of the story. The additional is the progression, area all the conflicts are brought out and decisions are made. Finally, the third act is the resolution.

A adventure can be anecdotal in a few account or hours, but in absolute activity it may amount over a brace hours or days. So, the best way to anatomy a adventure would be to strategically abode the contest calm in the way they happened."

Story is the king
"The adventure is like a baron in the bold of chess and like in chess, decisions charge to be centered about the baron because extenuative the baron is your priority. But this necessarily doesn't agreement the success of a film. What makes a acceptable adventure is awful debatable."

Elements of a movie
"Acting, performance, sound, music score, editing, appropriate effects, etc, are the key elements of a film. A adventure needs to be at the centermost of these elements and needs to be the one allegorical all the added elements.

If it is not so and if you put art administration in the center, you ability get a beautiful, but a actual arid film. Similarly if you put appropriate furnishings at the center, you will get a Matrix 2. But if you accord the adventure its due importance, accurate by appropriate effects, you will get The Matrix. Ergo, all these elements accept to reinforce the adventure and not carnality versa."