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A rookie Senator facing his first vote reevaluates his platform and priorities when his wife is murdered in a mass shooting.
It's a good thing to put a protagonist in a situation where he is caught in the horns of a dilemma. But a logline is a description of ?a plot, not a situation. ?It succinctly lays out the course of action the character takes as a result of the inciting situation. So what is the plot, the objective gRead more
It’s a good thing to put a protagonist in a situation where he is caught in the horns of a dilemma.
But a logline is a description of ?a plot, not a situation. ?It succinctly lays out the course of action the character takes as a result of the inciting situation.
So what is the plot, the objective goal the politician struggles toward as a result of the situation created by the death of his wife?
Loglines are about action the protagonist takes. ?Not what he wants to do — but what he actually does. So what does he actually do?
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Okay, but those "wants" need to be translated into a specific goals which lead to specific actions -- a plot. ?That is what a script has to be about: what characters do about what they want.And the "doing" (not the wanting, ?not the talking) is what movie makers are looking for in a logline as wellRead more
Okay, but those “wants” need to be translated into a specific goals which lead to specific actions — a plot. ?That is what a script has to be about: what characters do about what they want.
And the “doing” (not the wanting, ?not the talking) is what movie makers are looking for in a logline as well as the script.
>>>Graham doesn?t know what he wants really, with anything
Then the character is DOA — dead on arrival. ?Characters who don’t know what they want don’t belong in a script. ?Drama is about characters who know what they want and actively try to get it. ?It may be a morally bad goal. ?It may turn out to be the wrong goal. ?But every major character must have a plot goal.
A protagonist must, by definition, be proactive.
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As Richiev said. ?The "star is born" -- and corrupted in the process -- is a been-there-done that plot line. ?What's so special, so unique about this concept that makes it any different (new and improved) from all the rest? And, again, how does that translate in a specific plot for the pilot? ?A ploRead more
As Richiev said. ?The “star is born” — and corrupted in the process — is a been-there-done that plot line. ?What’s so special, so unique about this concept that makes it any different (new and improved) from all the rest?
And, again, how does that translate in a specific plot for the pilot? ?A plot with the basic elements of a specific character with a clearly defined objective goal and a specific antagonist and/or clearly defined obstacles?
And stakes? ?What are the stakes?
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