What made Pixar successful

From it’s beggining, effort by effort, Pixar has structured as a creative company with unusual methods to make his colaborators work and to handle the process of making the product.  Reconsider the conventional ways and take risks to improve them does not mean failure assured, it means Pixar had an objective and did what was necessary to get to the place it is positioned now.

One strong and esential force of Pixar is team work. Unlike other motion picture studios, Ed Catmull says, good people more important than good ideas; Pixar have a team within the company which will work together from one movie to another. Efficient communication is the key, every person has a voice within the company, every project going on gets constant feedback from all the colaborators. At Pixar they build an environment in which people can work together, make constructive criticism to another by respecting the other’s ideas. 

The head team or managers from Pixar colaborate by the principles of an opening culture. All opinions and suggestions are considered, Pixar uses an hierarchy unstructured so everyone can communicate and get feedback from anyone. Mistakes are allowed, better to make mistakes in the process and that colaborators help notice them and change them in order to improve it, than notice them when the movie is released. One fear is to leave the conventional, but by taking risks Pixar has innovated and improved results.

The vision of Pixar kept present in every effort they made to get to their goal. Pixar had a clear objective from the beggining of what they wanted to do and the actions that had to be taken one by one. The directors foster in all the team that they are working for the same dream of making animated computarized films. Every person at the team of Pixar were persistent when tough times came, even if they worked 24/7, but they did not give up anytime.

The combination of art and technology by Pixar, resulted in many breakthroughs with a strong quality that required team work, courage and many effort so that they can be terminated and enjoyed by many audiences around the world. Undoubtedly the culture of Pixar is esential for their success and for what they have done to their industry.

Run Lola Run.

Although Run Lola Run may not have the most interesting theme, it is a very dynamic film due to some elements within the movie. The story itself has three plot lines, or ways to develop. There are elements either joining and separating these plot lines in Run Lola Run, may be the characters, changes in setting or the different posibilities for the main situation to happen.

One of the elements uniting the plot lines are the characters. There are characters defining the destiny of the story like the vague or his father, and others who have no relevance like the guy in the bike or the woman with the baby. While Lola is running, some people get in her way from one way or another; in all the stories we see the same characters passing by. But also there is another element separating the stories, as they cross their way with Lola we can watch in a few seconds how the life of this character will be in the future and in the three stories every character has different premonitions.

The setting from the movie at times stays permanent and at other times new elements are included in the different plot lines according to the new story. In the three plot lines the scene starts when Lola is at her house and becomes aware of the situation. One change is that in every story the time is different for a few seconds, so the elements moving that are included in every setting have to be adapted. As each story continues, the setting stays practicly the same unless in the last story when the conflict is solved finaly when he encounters the vague and she wins a lot of money in the casino. 

The fact that Lola has to get money urgently to help his boyfriend is the main situation from where the story will be told. In the three plot lines is the same trouble, that if Lola does not get the money in 20 minutes, to get it, her boyfriend will assault a place; this is the main objective of Lola. At the end of the first and second story when Lola or Mani die, appears a scene with both of them apparently on a bed underneath a red Light and then the story starts over again from the beggining. The element separating the end of the three plot lines is that in the first one Lola is killed, in the second one Mani is killed and in the third one both get what they wanted even if other characters envolved were injured or dead.

Within the movie are elements either uniting or separating the three plot lines by which the story is told, the main trouble and some characters keep constant during the film although some characters may have few changes within each story; also the setting and the time of the events to happen have to be considered.