Inside Disney’s Animation Secrets: How Brandon Violette Crafts Stories That Come to Life
Ashley
So, just explain what these summits are. How does one attend one of these summits or find out when these summits are going on?
Brandon Violette
The best way to find out is just to stay in contact with the executives that are in your network or head writers in your network. Because that’s who will know. And so, the summit, it’s like, okay, the show is greenlit. We have a few weeks before we need to start breaking a story every single week. So, let’s just kick off the season with a bunch of ideas. We’re going to get, you know, five writers on one day five, the next day, the executives are in the room, head writers in the room, the showrunner, and everybody brings a couple of ideas based on the show Bible that that we wrote during development and the pilot so they have a kind of a flavor of what the show is and, and they come prepared. So we can see what they did ahead of time and also how they are just in the rooms being spontaneous and someone pitched something and they’re like, hey, that was really good. That reminds me maybe this and it’s like a it’s a test run for to see how the personalities will go together and who stands out and, and then from there, you want to stack it with people that are experienced, and also people that are new and that really are up and coming and hungry and you try to find that balance. And yeah, that’s really that’s really it.
