After the story artists are done hashing out the basics of a scene, it’s up to her to add all the words to the characters. Meg LaFauve is the screenwriter on The Good Dinosaur, and she gave us some insight how her role helps with the story building process. It was really awesome to see that I am not the only one that uses sticky notes to hash out my ideas so they stop rattling around in my brain.

There are overhead projectors so the story artists can present their ideas, and good old sticky notes along the wall to follow a story from the beginning to the end of the sequence. It’s this neat room where technology meets good old pencil and paper. If you’ve ever written a story or brainstormed an idea, you have a small sense of what goes on in the story boarding room at Pixar Studios. We had a chance to sit in THE room where the stories start to form for this great film! That’s what happened when I had a chance to chat with Screenwriter Meg LaFauve and Story Supervisor Kelsey Mann during our Pixar Studios tour for The Good Dinosaur, opening November 25th. It’s not very often that you get to sit in the actual room where magic is made where creative genius comes together to throw ideas around that meld into something families will remember for lifetimes.

I did receive an all expenses paid trip to The Good Dinosaur press event, but all opinions are my own.

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