April 18th

Today i had a very difficult day. After writing about half of my story i realised that the story was lacking something. I realised that the story had a begginning and an end but not really a middle. Nothing really happened. After looking back at other films and shorts i had researched i found that they lead somewhere. For inspiration on what to do i turned to watching the making of The Incredibles on DVD, in particulaly the story making part. Brad Bird of Pixar said that a story must be flexible and able to be changed throughout the film making process. Also he said that no matter how much you like a scene or a storyline if you don't feel that it will work then you have to be prepared to take it out. Therefore i decided to take this advise and have taken out parts of my story that i didnt think were really working or added anything to the story. This left me in the position of thinking of a new idea for my story. I had run out of ideas for today and need to take a step back from the story and come back to it. Therefore i have decided to continue with the character design and come back to the story at a later date when i can look at it fresh.
This was a big decision but one that i think will pay off and allow me to step back from the story in order to think of a new imporoved one.