PIXAR: The Company and Its Founders - Sharyland ISD

PIXAR
idea. He or she has to sell the others on the concept
with pictures, sound effects, and whatever is needed
to get the team excited.
Once the story idea is accepted, development
continues with brainstorming meetings. Employees
toss around ideas and stay open to possibilities of
how to make the idea into a great movie. Eventually,
the story begins to unfold and the story team writes a
treatment with the basic idea for the movie.
For Monsters, Inc., Docter’s initial concept—
that monsters are real—could have developed in any
number of ways. The story team played with ideas
and came up with the story line. The story explains
that the reason monsters scare children is because
they need the energy of children’s screams to power
their city. The monsters would also be afraid of
contamination by children. The main character is
a monster named Sulley. As the story was further
developed, the whole plot of the movie was outlined
with a beginning, a middle, and an end. The script
and storyboard fleshed out the initial ideas to create
the movie.
The development phase also includes research.
For Monsters, Inc., Lasseter and Docter said they
“went to the monster experts: Kids.” 2 This assured
them that monsters were scary, but they still were not
80