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hyme john
Posted: November 19, 20122012-11-19T20:24:53+10:00 2012-11-19T20:24:53+10:00In: Public

A WOMAN PAID AN EX DETECTIVE TO FIND HER MISSING SON.THE DETECTIVE START BY INVESTIGATING THE BOY'S FRIEND AND HE DISCOVERED THAT SOMEONE SEND A MESSAGE TO THE BOY AND HIS FRIENDS THAT IN 30 DAYS THEY WILL BE KILLED.27 DAYS HAVE PASS IT REMAINS 72 HOURS FOR THE DETECTIVE TO FIND THE PERSON AND SAVE THE BOY.

72 HOURS

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    1. [Deleted User]
      2012-11-19T22:39:15+10:00Added an answer on November 19, 2012 at 10:39 pm

      The urgency implied by the use of all caps suggests that this is an action film, right?

      Okay, let’s start with the main characters – a woman, her son, her son’s friend, an ex-detective, the messenger – and see how they are all connected.

      Which gives us “When a woman pays an ex-detective to find her son, an investigation of his best friend reveals a message saying the boys will die in 30 days, the ex-detective only has 3 days left to find the messenger and save the boys.”

      Now it’s just a case of taking out what isn’t important and telling the same story in about half as many words. I would start with taking out “die in 30 days”, since there is more urgency in “3 days left” and it makes “30 days” pretty redundant.

      Good luck with this.

      Although, from what I can tell, the woman is the messenger and needs the detective to find the boy and his friends so she can follow through with her threat.

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    2. 2012-11-20T00:28:49+10:00Added an answer on November 20, 2012 at 12:28 am

      Hyme John,

      That’s a (poorly worded and gramatically erroneous) elevator pitch, not a logline.

      What’s good – urgency of a death in 3 days = ticking clock. What’s bad = missing hook and a feeling of banal familiarity to this story.

      Figure out the following elements and you can craft a better logline:

      Protag = detective
      Antag = kidnapper
      Goal = find missing boy
      Stakes = death of missing boy
      Hook = unknown (mother = killer?)

      I gave myself creative license to come up with the below suggested logline.

      When a [insert adjective/flaw] detective is hired to find a woman’s missing son, his investigation stumbles onto a bizarre plot to kill the boy before his 21st birthday… which is in three days.

      Best of luck!
      Monique

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    3. Karel Segers Logliner
      2012-11-22T17:15:35+10:00Added an answer on November 22, 2012 at 5:15 pm

      John, you have posted 3 loglines. Can you please – in the spirit of this site – review 2 loglines for each (i.e. 8 loglines in total)?

      Please also post loglines in normal, mixed case. ALL CAPS LOOKS VERY BAD.

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