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savinh0Samurai
A young talented street musician is beginning a new life with his brother to realize the dream of a common band. But his childhood traumas and a flubbed school performance in the past preventing him to show his full talent on stage and driving him into the arms of a greedy music producer who has his own plans for the two brothers.
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You’ve got most of the elements of a good logline here, but you can really improve it by tightening it up. 62 words is way too much for a logline – you want to try to get it to around 30 words or less.
One thing you can do is remove the stuff about the childhood traumas and such. That’s backstory – you don’t need it in a logline. Better to refer to it through the descriptive words used to describe your MC.
Maybe something like this:
After he and his brother start a band, a talented busker with a troubled past finally gets his big break, only to find their greedy producer is exploiting them for his own self-interests.
Hope this helps – good luck.
You’ve got most of the elements of a good logline here, but you can really improve it by tightening it up. 62 words is way too much for a logline – you want to try to get it to around 30 words or less.
One thing you can do is remove the stuff about the childhood traumas and such. That’s backstory – you don’t need it in a logline. Better to refer to it through the descriptive words used to describe your MC.
Maybe something like this:
After he and his brother start a band, a talented busker with a troubled past finally gets his big break, only to find their greedy producer is exploiting them for his own self-interests.
Hope this helps – good luck.
There are several problems with this logline formatting and length aside.
What is at stake for the MC? Why must he start a band now? What starts off his action to start the band?
Most importantly; What is the inciting incident? Starting the band is not an inciting incident as he would have started the band with his brother regardless and ultimately starting the band was his choice not something done to him forcing him to take action.
Further the obstacles and backstory appear to be unrelated to each other. How can a “flubbed” school performance from years before drive anyone into the arms of some one? On that note what does drive into the arms of a producer mean? Romantically? Sexual? Legally? As a business arraignment?
The choice of words is confusing on top of the cause and effect relationship of the story elements.
Hope this helps.
There are several problems with this logline formatting and length aside.
What is at stake for the MC? Why must he start a band now? What starts off his action to start the band?
Most importantly; What is the inciting incident? Starting the band is not an inciting incident as he would have started the band with his brother regardless and ultimately starting the band was his choice not something done to him forcing him to take action.
Further the obstacles and backstory appear to be unrelated to each other. How can a “flubbed” school performance from years before drive anyone into the arms of some one? On that note what does drive into the arms of a producer mean? Romantically? Sexual? Legally? As a business arraignment?
The choice of words is confusing on top of the cause and effect relationship of the story elements.
Hope this helps.
I like the introduction and setup — with less words of course.
But the story starts when the MC (street musician), starts to suspect his deal is not so sweet (inciting incident). However the logline does not really state the problem.
Was the contract written with invisible ink?
Is the manager the Devil incarnate and now the boys are going to hell?
Is the manager using them as drug mules to transport drugs to Canada?
Is the manager secretly recording their music and selling it on the internet?
Don’t know. It’s a little vague.
Plus without a problem, it is hard to know what’s at stake. You maybe have 20-30 pages of script to setup and get to the inciting incident and then writer’s block.
I like the introduction and setup — with less words of course.
But the story starts when the MC (street musician), starts to suspect his deal is not so sweet (inciting incident). However the logline does not really state the problem.
Was the contract written with invisible ink?
Is the manager the Devil incarnate and now the boys are going to hell?
Is the manager using them as drug mules to transport drugs to Canada?
Is the manager secretly recording their music and selling it on the internet?
Don’t know. It’s a little vague.
Plus without a problem, it is hard to know what’s at stake. You maybe have 20-30 pages of script to setup and get to the inciting incident and then writer’s block.