A teenage lumberjack wannabe struggles with his ironically hipster appearance as he figures out what it means to be a man.

The scene where the tree falls on the car is a keeper. (Is this a comedy?)

In this case, a logline would describe not what the MC wants to be but what he does to become. So if he's a "wannabe lumberjack" -- if that's his working definition of a manly man -- then it seems to me his goal would be to get hired as a full-time lumberjack.

BTW: Becoming a lumberjack could be the wrong goal to fulfill his subjective need to define himself with a manly occupation. Which he discovers after he achieves the goal -- through hilarious missteps and misadventures-- or discovers after struggling to achieve the goal only to fail -- after hilarious missteps and misadventures. The critical issue is that logline informs readers that he is taking steps, that he is struggling to reach a specific goal.

The scene where the tree falls on the car is a keeper. (Is this a comedy?)

In this case, a logline would describe not what the MC wants to be but what he does to become. So if he's a "wannabe lumberjack" -- if that's his working definition of a manly man -- then it seems to me his goal would be to get hired as a full-time lumberjack.

BTW: Becoming a lumberjack could be the wrong goal to fulfill his subjective need to define himself with a manly occupation. Which he discovers after he achieves the goal -- through hilarious missteps and misadventures-- or discovers after struggling to achieve the goal only to fail -- after hilarious missteps and misadventures. The critical issue is that logline informs readers that he is taking steps, that he is struggling to reach a specific goal.

Thanks for all the feedback guys, I really do appreciate it!

I've been struggling with this idea for about a year now, I just have no ideas on what specific external conflicts could arise.

The MC is basically a scrawny, nearly blind teenager who wears lumberjack attire (flannel, boots, the whole 9 yards.) Because of his obvious lack of manliness, nobody takes him seriously when he wants to be a lumberjack. People also perceive him as a hipster because "nobody understands him." A lot of it just plays off of society's view of the common hipster.

As far as external obstacles, I see the story going in two ways:

1.) MC and a friend drive out to the middle of nowhere to cut down a tree, the tree crushes their car and they must survive in the wilderness.

2.) MC basically goes on a road trip and talks to different people on what they think it means to be a man. Sounds serious, but it wouldn't be. I had one pretty funny scene scripted out where he visits a Wal-Mart (or some made-up store chain) to buy a knife, because all men carry knives, right? But the guy working in the knife/gun section persists that he needs a gun, because all real men have guns. Just trying to focus in on that everyone has different views on what it means to be a man in today's society. Not much conflict in the one though...