Writing A Great Script Fast: Part 13 Treatments & Finding Nemo 40 Plot Points Review

Story is the hardest thing to learn for most digital filmmakers these days since the technology has become so inexpensive and easy to use. How would you like to write a great script in about 24 hours while learning almost everything you need to know to tell brilliant visual stories for the rest of your life?
Part 13 of 19: Treatments & Finding Nemo 40 Points: Learn how to take your 40 plot points and write a solid treatment for a script. Have you ever wanted to create a Pixar level story? Watch as Finding Nemo is deconstructed using the 40 plot points in a variety of different ways.
Sections: 1. Writing A Treatment, 2. Finding Nemo 40 Plot Points
Based on the bestselling books "Maya 2 Character Animation" (1999 New Riders), and "Developing Digital Short Films" by Sherri Sheridan (2004 New Riders/ Peachpit/ Pearson). Part 13 of 19 from a 20-hour video workshop "Writing A Great Script Fast." This is the ultimate step-by-step story engine class for independent digital filmmakers and computer animators.
Covers the top 20 books on screenwriting, film and animation in easy to follow steps with 1000's of brainstorming ideas and story techniques learned along the way. Now being used as the main story class for structure in schools all over the world.
"This is a step-by-step guide to craft an award winning film without going bankrupt!" - Digital Dispatch News.
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The love life of a woolly mammoth--handled with G-rated delicacy--drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot--in which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe (basically, Three Mammals and a Baby)--the sequel takes the now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline, and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who thinks she's an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted carnivo! rous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. -- Bret Fetzer




