Inside Disney’s Animation Secrets: How Brandon Violette Crafts Stories That Come to Life
Ashley
Gotcha. So, who are these development executives giving you notes and what kind of background did they have? I mean, we always hear from writers, you know, these are business suits and they don’t understand the creative or whatever, but like who are these people giving notes on a kid’s show? Are they people with degrees in child psychology? Are they business people? Are they creative people with writing backgrounds? But who are those folks that are giving these notes?
Brandon Violette
It’s not uncommon to have a some sort of child psychology, child education background. You see that. You see creatives who it’s not typically like your stereotypical suit with no creative bone in their body. That’s not quite, there’s creative people on that side and some have experienced writing and some just wanted to go the executive route and they know; I’m not a writer but I love shaping stories. And so, there’s a range but it’s people in at least in our industry typically with experience with kid’s television and who have come up just like on the writing side you come up as a writing assistant. For those executives you start as an assistant to an executive and so you learn and absorb the language of kid’s television on your way up.
