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A country footballer is on a quest to avenge his mother’s murder, find a missing woman and put his team on the road to premiership glory.
A logline is a brief statement of? a plot.? The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined a plot in terms of a protagonist pursuing a singular objective goal.? Not two, or three goals -- but one overarching goal.? And that has been the working convention in Western drama ever since.So the logline needs toRead more
A logline is a brief statement of? a plot.? The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined a plot in terms of a protagonist pursuing a singular objective goal.? Not two, or three goals — but one overarching goal.? And that has been the working convention in Western drama ever since.
So the logline needs to be reworked to define one — and only one –? overarching objective.? Any other goal the protagonist has in the plot is a sub-goal, a milestone necessary to accomplishing the overarching objective goal.? And again, a logline is only concerned wit the overarching objective goal — not any of the sub-goals.
See lessA soldier fighting in Vietnam is blackmailed by US Government agents into assassinating anti-establishment rock stars Jim Hendrix,? Jim Morrison and John Lennon.
The logline is listed as an historical genre story.? In historical genre stories, the plot is based upon or inspired by real events, by real people.Did US agents actually blackmail a soldier to assassinate anti-war celebrities? (And that is the more relevant way of tagging the targets. The context oRead more
The logline is listed as an historical genre story.? In historical genre stories, the plot is based upon or inspired by real events, by real people.
Did US agents actually blackmail a soldier to assassinate anti-war celebrities? (And that is the more relevant way of tagging the targets. The context of the story world is the Vietnam war . These celebrities weren’t just anti-establishment, they were antiwar.)? And what kind of “agents” were they, FBI , CIA or…?
If the story is not founded upon an actual historical character and incident, then it should be listed in another (fictional) genre category such as drama or action.
And why would the government guys have to resort to blackmailing someone (a negative incentive)? when there were plenty of gungho, pro-war soldiers who would be all to willing (positive? incentive) to target anti-war celebrities?? And after all, the carrot is a more effective and reliable incentive than a stick.
See lessWhen a cursed camera captures pictures of predestined murders, a cakera collector must unravel mysteries of the occult device to stop her husband’s gruesome fate.
It might work if the plot is setup in a way that establishes a track record for the camera.? That is, the protagonist discovers evidence that several snapshots of death events created by the camera actually came to pass. And then the camera takes a snapshot of the death event of her husband.? (Or evRead more
It might work if the plot is setup in a way that establishes a track record for the camera.? That is, the protagonist discovers evidence that several snapshots of death events created by the camera actually came to pass.
And then the camera takes a snapshot of the death event of her husband.? (Or even more emotionally effective, her children.? Who are innocent and helpless.)
fwiw
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