Four friends navigate the intricacies of their relationships as one struggles with fertility and another is about to become a father through a one night stand. The brotherhood is about to become the Fatherhood, but its likely there will be some casualties along the way.
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Four friends navigate the intricacies of their relationships as one struggles with fertility and another is about to become a father through a one night stand. The brotherhood is about to become the Fatherhood, but its likely there will be some casualties along the way.
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This logline is vague in nature and fails to describe a plot due to lack of?character descriptions and specific detail.
Is there a need for a multi protagonist plot or can there be one main character? Who is the main dramatic point of view character in the story?
The next draft of the logline should specify what it is that starts off the story, the event that sets it all into motion, in other words what is the inciting incident?
In addition it will need to specify the main character’s goal what does he want and explain how it is connected to the starting event.
Lastly in a logline best to avoid vague descriptions such as “…intricacies of their relationships…” and metaphors such as “…its likely there will be some casualties along the way…” as these do not describe plot specific detail because they are open to multiple interpretations.
Hope this helps.
Is this a logline for a series or a feature film?
it seems to read like an ensemble story about relationships with no particular driving objective goal driving the plot.? Rather the men are being driven by?the circumstances of the plot,? the consequences of becoming fathers.? That works less well for a feature film which is usually ?framed around one plot line (?whereas a series can have different plot line with each episode).
Hello,
I appreciate the rewriting (I remember a previous version where everythin was too vague) but I think that this logline fail to tell the most important thing: ‘what happens?’ – where is the source of conflict?.
I pesonally don’t like?sentences as “navigate the intricacies of their relationships” and “its likely there will be some casualties along the way”, because they’re too vague.
“The brotherhood is about to become the Fatherhood” is excellent for a teaser or tag line but in my opinion this kind of sentence have no reason to be in a logline.
It’s very difficult o write loglines for ‘low concept’ movies, movies where everything is in the dialogues, characters and relationships. A way to package this kind of movies is to wrap the concept in a clear goal oriented structure, create an external and a clear source of conflict. Or at least confine the situation.
Something like:
“Turning 40 the same month, four longtimes friends struggle to keep their brotherhood alive under the pressure of becoming fathers”.
I don’t know if it’s good, but what I tried to do is to build a starting point (the 40 bithday) and to suggest a conflict (friendship vs family). I think this can implies that “there will be some casualties along the way”.