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3RD DRAFT…..The idyllic life of an adolescent surfer drastically changes when his family moves to pre-revolution Tehran, an American melting pot submerged in an alien culture where certain realities are but an illusion.
Okay, now the story is getting interesting.? ? The fact that his father was a covert operative immediately adds tension to the story. This somehow needs to be worked into the logline.? It's a story hook and story hooks should be? hoisted up the flagpole of a logline -- not buried in the text of theRead more
Okay, now the story is getting interesting.? ? The fact that his father was a covert operative immediately adds tension to the story. This somehow needs to be worked into the logline.? It’s a story hook and story hooks should be? hoisted up the flagpole of a logline — not buried in the text of the script.? Or to mangle metaphors, loglines need to pitch the sizzle, not the steak.? And having a father who is a covert operative is prime sizzle.
Now, while it may have be SOP for parents not to remain undercover to their kids,? has the teenager figured out the true nature of his father’s employment?? At least, does he have suspicions?
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Let me clarify my SOP when it comes to writing loglines for myself and suggesting loglines for others:I personally write two loglines for my projects. The first is for mine eyes only, the second is for marketing the script to other pairs of eye balls.The "Mine Eyes Only" only version must conform toRead more
Let me clarify my SOP when it comes to writing loglines for myself and suggesting loglines for others:
I personally write two loglines for my projects. The first is for mine eyes only, the second is for marketing the script to other pairs of eye balls.
The “Mine Eyes Only” only version must conform to? the formula . Because the formula forces me to organize the script, nail down the essential elements of the plot. I’m not ready to write the first draft of a script until I’ve written a “Mine Eyes Only” version.
For that reason, I strongly encourage folks to first write a “formula” version of the logline. It’s not easy, but it is necessary.
I may not sweat the “Other Eye Balls”, the marketing version, until after I have done at least one draft of the script. In my experience, I discover the best hook for marketing the story in the process of writing? a first (aka: “vomit”) draft. Or second… or third… or…
Now it may turn out that the plotting logline is good enough to do double duty as the marketing logline. But it is my experience and observation that one dual-purpose logline is not always feasible.
So on this website, my m.o. is to dig out a story hook for a marketing logline as well as offering suggestions for a “formula” logline (to organize the plot).
To repeat: I? advise working up two versions of your logline for your projects, on? for plotting, one for marketing.
My? 2.5 cents worth.
See lessIt’s the early 70’s, a young surfer dude is plucked from his idyllic Southern California beach existence to find himself in a foreign high school amongst a group of variously addled American expat adolescents, running fearlessly and unbridled, through the streets of pre-revolution Tehran.
The idyllic life of a SoCal adolescent is upended when his family moves to pre-revolution Tehran, where he faces coming of age struggles in an American melting pot wrapped within a foreign culture whose certain realities are but an illusion.
The idyllic life of a SoCal adolescent is upended when his family moves to pre-revolution Tehran, where he faces coming of age struggles in an American melting pot wrapped within a foreign culture whose certain realities are but an illusion.
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