a second stab at same tv show concept, one my friend much prefers and contributed a great deal to create 🙂
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After a near-death experience awakens a hopeless woman’s power to see peoples karmic past, she realizes their fates are intertwined and in order to release everyone from impending life destroying behaviors she must overcome her own insecurities while battling her abusive and manipulative mother.
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Hi Kimberly,
I’ll give this a go.
After a near-death experience awakens a hopeless woman’s power to see peoples karmic past, she realizes their fates are intertwined and in order to release everyone from impending life destroying behaviors she must overcome her own insecurities while battling her abusive and manipulative mother.
— Got quite a mouthful here. Lets chop it down a bit.
Intention: must release everyone from impending life destroying behaviors – the more active goal.
must overcome her own insecurities – the subjective/emotional goal. I think we need to go with the more active goal in this logline.
Obstacle: abusive mother?
I don’t quite understand her goal of “release everyone from impending life destroying behaviours”? I think we need to be clearer. Oh – and to keep it simple too.
Attempt 1:
After a near-death experience leaves her with the ability to look into people’s pasts,
a woman must help (several victims of a traumatic incident? a group of people with a shared trauma? survivors of a traumatic incident? I dunno. When you mentioned impending life destroying behaviours – I immediately thought alcoholic or drug addicts and then I figured PTSD. Perhaps they’re all dealing with the aftermath of some traumatic past incident.)
or else. (??? what happens if she doesn’t do this? what are the stakes? what happens if decides to walk away?)
Notes:
I think you need to keep it on one track. Things like her own insecurities and the mother don’t really belong in the logline. Perhaps in the overall plot but not the logline.
I hope some of this helps.
your help is VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. thank you DarkHorse.
the “problem” if you will is that what I am doing is more esoteric in nature. I want to use words like “karma” and say she is a Chimera and that in order to help people from repeating the same mistakes she must travel through The Strands of Time etc etc..
I thought the one below was a bit closer
A despondent social media promoter has a near death experience that awakens her ability to see people’s past lives and realizes her fate is intertwined with everyone she knows, forcing her to choose between watching people’s life destroying behaviors affect the innocent or battle her manipulative mother in order to find her strength to heal the karma of her soul family.
Hi Kimberly,
I’ll post a review on your new post.