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The MI6 is troubled by the possible existence of a voice technology that could recreate all human speeches ever made.
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But I would readily think pointing out a protagonist in the logline for a story with a complex plot would make it sound like a cliche.?.
Not if the protagonist isn’t a cliche.
Do not fear cliche. It means you’re on the right track. The important thing is *identifying* you’ve got a cliche on your hands. Then you can write something to *overcome* the cliche… which as a creative process I tend to find this to be an extremely fun and rewarding process.
“A middle-aged male MI6 agent with marital problems” – Cliche
“A 60-year-old, female, black, MI6 agent… who is a heroin addict… living undercover in a council flat in the Shetland Islands” – Not Cliche. (Actually, I’m going to steal that one for myself 🙂
If in doubt, consider your character’s flaws.
As a last resort -> Turn them female, cute… and goth.
Hey, it worked for NCIS.
“But I would readily think pointing out a protagonist in the logline for a story with a complex plot would make it sound like a cliche.”
Stumbling over cliche’s is my current problem. I have rewritten my logline about 70-80 times now.
But the audience will connect with one character, who is that character and what is the worst thing that could happen if he does’t stop the bad men doing the bad thing?
But I would readily think pointing out a protagonist in the logline for a story with a complex plot would make it sound like a cliche. It actually was intentional.
And then, having the usual habit of limiting myself to 40-word loglines for my stories emphasizes economy, coolness, distinction, edge-of-the-seat suspense and direct communication.
I owe it to the movie agent and the eventual movie-goer to become instantly connected to the story once reading out what it’s all about in a short sentence.
You can be sure that the story is less of discovering speech patterns and more of reproducing all these words we’ve all been typing here if only those words were speeches.
I’ll search out the DSD piece. “Cyber” is a word with a high frequency in that MI6 story. I have somewhat a certain feeling that 40 years from now, it would be a common prefix for many things humans would use as everyday tools. Be it mini-computers or an encyclopedia for human genome.
You really need a protagonist, Mi6 is impersonal.
Also, “Troubled” isn’t that compelling.
It recreates all human speeches ever made? Does this mean it could recreate the “All we have to fear is fear itself” speech. And if so, why is that a bad thing?
Finally you don’t say what the worst thing that could happen if this technology exists.
After an Mi6 officer discovers a technology that can perfectly recreate any speech pattern, he must find it’s creator or (This bad thing will happen)
Heh. My MI6 thing needs WAY more work… but I’m currently working on a sitcom set in the DSD Cyber Security Operations Centre (Australia). There’s a logline on this site somewhere. Research was a BREEZE… anything factual I need I could rip off their own marketing materials: http://www.dsd.gov.au/infosec/csoc.htm . I mean, there’s even PHOTOS of the thing. Naturally I had to come up with all the characters and plots on my own.
Well-taken. I’d remove the first word. Sure, there’s a mole planted in a research house by the agency to spy on the incredible scientist trying his hands with the fringe idea. The climax is yet begging for a path out. I’ll keep you posted. Pls tell me a little more about your MI6 story. I’d love to have a look at the pitch.
The reason why you would want to see it I guess. toastman lends us a good hand with that.
Interesting. I could see myself watching this. Comments:
– MI6 is an agency. I’m assuming the protagonist is one specific spy/agent/officer (or a small team). Can we know something about him/her?
– They’re troubled by this device’s “existence”. Again, I’m assuming they’d be more concerned that such a device is possessed by / stolen by… the bad guys / the antagonist. Again, I’d suggest including some info about them.
“When a device that can recreate all human speeches ever made falls into the hands of terrorists… a washed-up rogue alcoholic MI6 agent must destroy it…. before they kill his family…?” 🙂
(PS, remove the first word “The”. It’s just “MI6” – “Military Intelligence – Section 6”. I’m also working on something that has MI6 in it. https://www.sis.gov.uk/ these days is completely full of awesome background research!)
Keep at it! I’d love to know more.
Why are they concerned?