Pre-Production: Story arc

In the Pre-production pipeline, there are many vital areas that are needed before an animation is produced. In this post, I shall talk about Story Arcs. This is what one usually looks like.

A story arc tells the rest of the group what will happen in three separate acts known as an Intro, the Crisis and Climax points and the denouncement, or appropriately labelled "Beginning, middle and end". For example, the story arc in Pixar's "Married life" starts from Carl and Ellie (the main characters) getting married and moving into their new home; this is the introduction structured for the rest of the story. The next part of the story arc is the middle of this story where the two are settled in their life and now begin the crisis points, the first of which is where Carl and Ellie are given bad news about the baby. There are more crisis points followed where the cash jar is broken each time for extra costs (new car tyre, hospital bill, house repair). The climax point is where Carl and Ellie are both old. Climax points are otherwise known as "the point of no return" in which the story reaches a point where it cannot ever be changed with other events, so this is mainly involves life cycles (age or death). The denouncement stage is otherwise known as the ending scene, so in this case is where Ellie dies and Carl is left all alone and leaves the church. Denouncements are when it explains the beginning of the ending scene and finalize everything in the whole story.