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When a 40 year old anal retentive, but lovable single woman’s pain in the ass, but loveable father is diagnosed with dementia, her distorted sense of obligation to fulfill a childhood promise to her dying mother, almost costs her her lifelong dream of getting married and having a family of her own.
A logline is a *short* statement about the plot. That is, a character's struggle to acheive *specific*, *concrete* goal. This logline hints action having to do with fulfilling a promise -- but we haven't a clue what the promise is. We don't know what *specifically* is her objective goal. And not knoRead more
A logline is a *short* statement about the plot. That is, a character’s struggle to acheive *specific*, *concrete* goal. This logline hints action having to do with fulfilling a promise — but we haven’t a clue what the promise is. We don’t know what *specifically* is her objective goal. And not knowing what the goal is we don’t know whether it might be worth a producer’s time to read the script, worth a director’s time to make the movie, worth an audience’s time to watch it.
Be specific.
>>almost costs her her lifelong dream of getting married and having a family of her own.
This seems to give away the ending, something a logline should never do.
Finally, the logline is 52 words long. Ideally, a logline should come in under 25 words in length.
For loglines, less is more.
See lessWhen a single and aspiring journalist is denied access to the diaries of a missing professor, he embarks on a fateful journey, accompanied by his editor, to solve the mystery.
What are the stakes? What is to be gained by solving the mystery? What is to be lost by failing to solve the mystery? Why should a viewer be curious and care about the outcome of the 'fateful journey'?
What are the stakes? What is to be gained by solving the mystery? What is to be lost by failing to solve the mystery? Why should a viewer be curious and care about the outcome of the ‘fateful journey’?
See lessWhen the Germans discover nuclear fission, a troubled American physicist must race against the clock to detonate an atom bomb, but when his loyalty is questioned, he must fight a rigged tribunal to have his security clearance reinstated.
>>When tasked with ending World War II. The logline should include an explicit statement of the urgency (with implied stakes). The explicit urgency was a race against time to develop an atom bomb before the Nazis. The implied stakes: whoever won the race would win the war. Also, the plot is baRead more
>>When tasked with ending World War II.
The logline should include an explicit statement of the urgency (with implied stakes). The explicit urgency was a race against time to develop an atom bomb before the Nazis. The implied stakes: whoever won the race would win the war.
Also, the plot is based on real historical events during World War II, specifically the Manhattan Project. So this is an exception to the general rule that a logline should not name the protagonist. In this instance, it is OK, even necessary to name the historical character (J. Robert Oppenheimer) involved in the historical event.
And equally as important, his role: Oppenheimer wasn’t just a “visionary physicist”; he was tapped to perform in the central role of the plot as the director of the Manhattan Project.
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