I want to study scripts, what makes them pull out of so many stories and win awards. Is it the structure of the story, the way it is told, the theme of the story, or any other feature that makes it recognized?
Analysis of the story: In the past 20 years,
Oscar Winner for Best Animated Feature film: Soul，Toy Story 4，Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse，Coco，Zootopia/Zootropolis，Inside Out，Big Hero 6，Frozen，Brave，Rango，Toy Story 3，Up，walle，Ratatouille，Happy Feet，Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit，The Incredibles，Finding Nemo，Spirited Away，Shrek
Best Animated Short Film: If Anything Happens I Love You，Hair Love，Bao，Dear Basketball，Piper，Bear Story，Feast，Mr. Hublot，Paperman，The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore，Lou，Logorama，つみきのいえ，Peter & the Wolf，The Danish Poet，The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation，Ryan，Harvie Krumpet，The ChubbChubbs!，For the Birds
My hesitation lies in the fact that the script is a very large direction, which may need to be studied: story structure, narrative method, how to highlight the story theme, whether to give the audience enough space for imagination, characterization of characters, realistic meaning, etc. In general, I want to study those excellent animation scripts, but I do not know the reasonable analysis method, or what is the research direction? I need to make a discovery in it and prove it, and that’s what I’m going to do.
From my one-on-one with my mentor, he gave me some very helpful advice:
You need to narrow down what you want to analyze the story in the movie. It could be Spirited Away, it could be a Japanese movie that you’re watching right now, and you might analyze it, but analysis is not what you want. What you want is an argument or a discussion, what you want to do is ask a question. It could be how one particular film influenced other films because they changed the way the narrative was structured. It’s used over and over again to find the original film, and then you can say how it continues to evolve in more modern use.
Overall, in the following week, I think I need to actively look for and determine the direction I want to study and research.