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Revised: Desperate to prove himself worthy of his civil rights activist wife, whom he crippled in an accident, George obsesses about the JFK promise, turning into a delusional quest to prevent assassination.
My SOP is not to read plot summaries accompanying a logline. Why? Because the logline has to stand on its own. It must clearly and succinctly state who the protagonist is, the objective goal, the antagonist (or obstacle) and what's at stake. It must hook a logline reader's interest such that they waRead more
My SOP is not to read plot summaries accompanying a logline. Why?
Because the logline has to stand on its own.
It must clearly and succinctly state who the protagonist is, the objective goal, the antagonist (or obstacle) and what’s at stake. It must hook a logline reader’s interest such that they want to read the script.
By succinctly, I mean in less than 40 words. (That is not an arbitrary number I just pulled out of the air. I’ve compiled and analyzed a list of over 1000 loglines. None of them exceed 40 words in length. The statistical median average is 25 words.)
The tyranny of time: the decision makers in show biz are busy people. They are bombarded with distractions. A logline has got only 10-15 seconds to grab their attention, pique their interest, make them want to read the script.
FWIW
See lessAfter an accident cripples the woman he loves, a guilt-ridden young man takes on America’s scars as his own, risking everything to change the course of history and earn the love she freely gives.
>>>risking everything to change the course of history What does "change the course" of history *look* like on a movie screen? IOW: what is the specific, concrete, objective goal he wants to accomplish?
>>>risking everything to change the course of history
What does “change the course” of history *look* like on a movie screen? IOW: what is the specific, concrete, objective goal he wants to accomplish?
See lessConvinced that he murdered a priest he caught abusing a child, Henry fractured into two warring personalities, until the insights of his illness help him bring down a dangerous child-trafficking network.
The unique selling point in this logline is that the protagonist has dual and dueling personalities. But it's not clear to me how the duel complicates the effort to achieve the objective goal. Is one personality opposing and subverting the efforts of the other to bring down the child-trafficking netRead more
The unique selling point in this logline is that the protagonist has dual and dueling personalities.
But it’s not clear to me how the duel complicates the effort to achieve the objective goal. Is one personality opposing and subverting the efforts of the other to bring down the child-trafficking network? Or..?
Also, the objective goal should be the focus of the logline, not the backstory, not subjective issues. Subjective issues and/or backstory should serve the primary objective goal.
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