تدريب Shadowing: Character: Advice - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو
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I think if you're looking for what kind of story you want to tell, I actually, what I used to do when I was in school, before I would start making a film, is I would just ask myself,
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"If I could take a vacation anywhere, where would I want to go?" "You know, I'd like to go to a medieval castle.
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Oh, that'd be a cool place to tell a story." So, you don't even have to necessarily start from a theme or a conflict, just
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jump into a setting and then start thinking of the characters and what do they want and maybe
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"Maybe this is a castle that's been too boring, so they've got to hire a dragon to come attack them." "And
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so we're going to do a talent scout for a dragon." and then you just go from there.
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So, you know, when in doubt, just let your mind go on a vacation.
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Through storytelling and especially in animation, you can go anywhere that your mind can take you.
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Sometimes it's fun to just think about what you would like to see.
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What would you like to watch.
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What is something that and for you personally, you would say, "Oh, I'd love to watch a movie like that," and make it.
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And even if it's not perfect, it's great to
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just have things out in the world that are personal to you and
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It's good to look at other films for ideas and inspiration and structure and how they you know, work things out, problems that they may have,
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But always.. try to stay true to your gut and go with something that is important to you.
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I went to California Institute of the Arts, the school that was started by Walt Disney specifically for animators, and I studied character animation.
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And one of the things you learn at CalArts is that you have your professors, which are great, they're professionals in the field.
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The people you're really learning from are your fellow students.
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They're the people that you are spending every day with
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and you're telling jokes to and you're learning if you're not funny or if you're pitching your stories and you're realizing,
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oh, you know what, I'm not making JG laughs.
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Maybe I should make this story a little funnier.
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And even to this day, when we pitch scenes to each other, Sometimes we forget that we're going to be showing them to billions of people in the world,
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and we're just trying to make the director and our story crew laugh.
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Because at the end of the day, we're just people telling stories to each other.
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What happens when I tell the story to another person is that all these other things show up.
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without me asking for them.
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Even while I'm telling them.
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the story starts to come alive.
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the characters start to come along.
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And then also, the person you told the story to, will tell you what they thought of it.
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Notes.
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They're free.
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they actually are helping you make your story and your character better.
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So that's why I encourage everybody, if you're crafting a story, and you want it to get better, keep telling your story over and over again.
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You'd be surprised how good those characters and those stories become over a short period of time.
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And you don't have to sit alone in a room.
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with it, thinking that's good or bad or whatever.
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Somebody can tell you.
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So another important thing that I've coming to learn the more I'm working in the industry is,
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it's, you know, it's filled with really amazing artists and you're kind of always struggling to figure out how to stand out.
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And I think the best way to do that is to worry less about
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what you think people want from you and just do express yourself as best as possible.
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All the responses I got from the internship
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and all the responses I got on my portfolio were just me going back and thinking about
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what made me laugh or what were things that my siblings did
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that made me laugh really hard and just try to express that into my boards and people would be like, how did you come up with that?
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And I'd be like, you know, I, didn't come up with it.
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It's just like, you know, this is me and what I'm exposed to.
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And, you know, and people really react into that and wanted more of it and, you know, thought it was entertaining or fresh and new.
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So I think that's the biggest advice I could give is just, you know, figure out what influences you in your life and try to display that in your art.
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So I think a big thing to remember if you're trying to get a job somewhere like Pixar is to be yourself.
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I know it sounds cliche, but it really is important.
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There's a lot of failure, of course.
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There's a lot of times when you're wrong.
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There's a lot of times when you think that something is working and it's not.
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That actually is the most important thing that could happen to you as a storyteller.
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is when things are not working.
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and when things are kind of only slightly working, you always want to get better.
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And the only way you're going to get better is if you keep trying.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Character: Advice”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: character, laugh, telling. This video has 60 sentences and 909 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:51. The speaker talks fast, about 187 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 14 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| animation noun | /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | The act of animating, or giving life or spirit. |
| animator noun | /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/ | One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist. |
| cliché noun | /kliˈʃeɪ/ | Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite… |
| storyteller noun | A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience. | |
| sibling noun | /ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/ | A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with. |
| internship noun | /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/ | A job taken by a student in order to learn a profession or trade. |
| storytelling noun | The act and skills of presenting stories and tales. | |
| entertain verb | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably. |
| bore verb | /boɹ/ | To inspire boredom in somebody. |
| scout noun | /ˈskaʊ̯t/ | A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. |
| expose verb | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light. |
| medieval adjective | /mɪdˈi.vəl/ | Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD. |
| portfolio noun | /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/ | A case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents. |
| react verb | /ɹiːˈækt/ | To act in response. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
| come along verb | To accompany. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. |
| stand out verb | To jut out, protrude (from a surface etc.). |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 33 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, cliché /kliˈʃeɪ/, internship /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/
- Long words — get the stress right: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, animator /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/, portfolio /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like animation, animator, cliché.
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