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In the near future when an upgraded police droid becomes able to think and feel, it must learn to survive in a violent world where everyone wants to exploit its humanoid consciousness.
While the concept was interesting, I thought the execution -- to wit, the plot -- fell short and was rather messy. It was not easy distilling a logline from the film.
While the concept was interesting, I thought the execution — to wit, the plot — fell short and was rather messy. It was not easy distilling a logline from the film.
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Dramatic plots are artificial constructs. As Aristotle observed in his classic treatise, "The Poetics", the plot is (only) an imitation of (real life) action. Which is why films are "based upon" or "inspired by" by real life stories. Events (and characters) must be sliced and diced to fit into the PRead more
Dramatic plots are artificial constructs. As Aristotle observed in his classic treatise, “The Poetics”, the plot is (only) an imitation of (real life) action. Which is why films are “based upon” or “inspired by” by real life stories. Events (and characters) must be sliced and diced to fit into the Procrustean bed of the dramatic form.
Apparently your story is about a couple whose objective goal is to become sex coaches. The story suggests the prospect of lot of fair amount of sex. But there’s a surfeit of that on the Internet already, a lot of it free for the looking. How can your story, even though true, possibly compete for attention (and sales) on the basis of sex alone?
What your story really needs to deliver is a story line with dramatic (vs. libidinous) tension, conflict, and suspense. That’s what the logline should focus on.
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>>how long do you think a logline can be without it being TOO wordy? For some time, I have been keeping a spreadsheet of loglines for plots that actually got made into films. The sample size is currently over 600. About 62% are 25 words or less. About 87% of the loglines are 30 words or less. I haveRead more
>>how long do you think a logline can be without it being TOO wordy?
For some time, I have been keeping a spreadsheet of loglines for plots that actually got made into films. The sample size is currently over 600. About 62% are 25 words or less. About 87% of the loglines are 30 words or less. I have yet to encounter a plot that survived the gauntlet of the development process and got produced that couldn’t be distilled to 40 words or less.
So those seem to be the markers: most loglines can be stated in 25 words or less; 30 words is the ideal maximum; 40 words the tolerable maximum.
fwiw
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