Video: “Inside Out: Outside Edition”

This is great!

A University of Utah film student has put together an Inside Out Outside Edition that uses only the scenes outside of Riley’s mind, without the feelings to let us know what’s going inside her head.

Here’s the video:

I’m really looking forward to diving into Inside Out in my upcoming Pixar and the Craft of Storytelling class which begins January 25. It’s not only a terrific movie, it also may be the single best story to illustrate the dual worlds of a screenplay universe as I use it: The External World (Plotline) and Internal World (Themeline).

This video is a brilliant concept, focusing the story strictly on the External World. And yet, we can sense what’s going on in Riley’s Internal World, her painful process of moving from Disunity, literally uprooted from her home in Minnesota combined with her emerging adolescence, toward a place approximating Unity at the end.

Both the video and the movie illustrate one of the keys to writing: When something happens, something else happens. What hear in Dialogue, there is Subtext. What see in Action, there is Intention. The inner world of our characters are equally important in our storytelling as they provide meaning and emotional resonance for a script reader.

The video is via Jordan Hanzon.

HT /film for the link.

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