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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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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Character: Advice”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: character, laugh, telling. Questo video contiene 60 frasi e 909 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:51. Chi parla va veloce, circa 187 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 89% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 13 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| animation sostantivo | /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | ravvivamento, animazione |
| cliché sostantivo | /kliˈʃeɪ/ | cliché, luogo comune |
| storyteller sostantivo | cantastorie | |
| sibling sostantivo | /ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/ | fratello, sorella |
| internship sostantivo | /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/ | stage, tirocinio |
| storytelling sostantivo | narrazione | |
| entertain verbo | /ˌɛntəˈteɪn/ | divertire, intrattenere |
| bore verbo | /boɹ/ | annoiare, tediare |
| scout sostantivo | /ˈskaʊ̯t/ | esploratore |
| expose verbo | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | esporre, evidenziare |
| medieval aggettivo | /mɪdˈi.vəl/ | medievale |
| portfolio sostantivo | /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/ | cartella |
| react verbo | /ɹiːˈækt/ | reagire |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| come up with verbo | ideare, escogitare |
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto |
| go back verbo | tornare |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 33 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, I'm, we're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, cliché /kliˈʃeɪ/, internship /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, animator /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/, portfolio /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: internship /ˈɪntɜːnʃɪp/, scout /ˈskaʊ̯t/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, react /ɹiːˈækt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, animator /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/, react /ɹiːˈækt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come animation, cliché, storyteller.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.