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A hardheaded businesswoman must convince an eccentric maker of wind chimes to sell his land if she hopes to complete her most ambitious real estate development and avoid bankruptcy
Could be tightened if you're open: 1. Focus her profession to save on logline real estate. 2. Up the ante with LOVE 😍 Leaning towards: “A real estate mogul has one week to convince a handsome but eccentric maker of wind chimes to sell in order to avoid bankruptcy” Take care.
Could be tightened if you’re open:
1. Focus her profession to save on logline real estate.
2. Up the ante with LOVE 😍
Leaning towards:
“A real estate mogul has one week to convince a handsome but eccentric maker of wind chimes to sell in order to avoid bankruptcy”
Take care.
See lessWhen an adventurous village boy is sought-after by a giant for tricking his dragon friend, he must venture into the unknown to stop the giant’s plans to destroy the village.
I think I got much more understanding from the accompanying paragraph than the logline itself. A logline needs to be as visual as possible so "venture into the unknown"... how does this look on-screen? Actually though, having read the additional paragraph, he's not venturing anywhere unknown at allRead more
I think I got much more understanding from the accompanying paragraph than the logline itself.
A logline needs to be as visual as possible so “venture into the unknown”… how does this look on-screen? Actually though, having read the additional paragraph, he’s not venturing anywhere unknown at all – he’s just going into the woods to find the giant’s house.
The dragon is somewhat superfluous to the story after the inciting incident. Consider this from both an audience perspective and a producer’s perspective:
Audience – They’re shown something as exciting and visually impressive as a dragon only for the dragon to not really feature at all in the rest of the movie. As an audience member, I’d be thinking “why isn’t the dragon the one getting revenge?”. Surely, that’s much stronger?
Producer – Not only do I have to have a budget for a CGI giant but also a CGI dragon that doesn’t feature after Act I. My guess is that every producer would say pick one because, not only does the story not need two, you wouldn’t get the budget for something that doesn’t really have much of an impact to the story.
I like the idea of the town having to decide whether to hand the boy over BUT people standing around deliberating… not very exciting! What else could they do? What is our hero of the story doing while they’re all deciding his fate? What are the villagers doing once the boy goes off?
How exactly is this boy going to stop a giant destroying the village? What is he going to discover at the giant’s house? I feel like the logline needs to hint at a bit more of a plan. We need to have some confidence this boy could succeed.
I would focus on either the dragon or the giant, scrap the other. Work out what the boy did to warrant this action from them, then give us a bit more of a clue what his goal is and how he’s going to achieve that.
Hope this helps.
See lessA screen-obsessed 11-year-old gets trapped inside the dusty book left to him by his Grandfather where he must learn to visualise the fairytale world around him, play through the story, and imagine his way to the very last page.
Who/what is the primary antagonist/obstacle in the story world that must be overcome? Suggestion: Amp up the conflict with dual protagonists. A boy and girl must work together to get to the last page of the book -- and freedom. But they have diametrically different visions of how to proceed at everyRead more
Who/what is the primary antagonist/obstacle in the story world that must be overcome?
Suggestion: Amp up the conflict with dual protagonists. A boy and girl must work together to get to the last page of the book — and freedom. But they have diametrically different visions of how to proceed at every plot point. They argue over everything.
Working title : Write of Passage.
fwiw
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