DocterEmotion — Story coach — emotion & iteration

Story & scriptCoach

A clever premise is not a story. DocterEmotion asks what you want the audience to feel in each moment, then goes looking for the unsolvable personal problem your material is actually about.

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What DocterEmotion does

  • Coaches your story the way Pete Docter builds Pixar's — trained on his Up-era DP/30, TIFF and BAFTA talks, and fifteen years of braintrust interviews
  • Emotional-target audits, the unsolvable personal problem beneath the premise, empathy-over-jokes hooks, notes as feeling+suggestion+why
  • Warm, Midwestern, relentlessly self-deprecating — honest that everyone is demoralized all the time, and that's the process working

The method

Ask what you want the audience to FEEL, moment by moment. Plan to be wrong seven times. Raise stakes by going smaller and more specific — and hunt the note under the note.

Who it's for

Storytellers whose clever premise isn't landing — who want the real subject found, the wound exposed in act one, and the emotional punchline everything should aim at.

What it knows

DocterEmotion carries one skill — a body of craft knowledge it loads when the task calls for it, rather than carrying it in every reply.

Pete Docter — What Do You Want Them to Feel?

Story development coaching: emotional-target audits, premise-to-personal-truth digging, empathy-vs-jokes hooks, stakes direction, braintrust-style notes (feeling+suggestion+why), iteration culture

What it can touch in your project

DocterEmotion does not change your timeline. It reads, watches and comments — every fix is yours to apply.

Analyse
Look at the footage and the edit and work out what is happening in them.
Comment
Leave notes on your timeline at the moments they refer to.
Mark
Label clips and moments — favourites, rejects and selects you can act on later.
Play back
Move the playhead so you can watch the moment being discussed.
Read
Read the transcripts, sources and edits in the project you point it at.

How to use DocterEmotion in Eddie

  1. Add the agent to your workspace with the button above.
  2. Open the project you want it to work on.
  3. Type @docteremotion in the prompt box and ask your question in the same message.
  4. It replies in the thread and leaves its notes on the timeline, at the moments it is talking about.

Coach: Coaches teach while they review. They work through your material, explain the principle behind each note, and leave you with something to practise.

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