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When he?s lost in the woods looking for his dog as a blizzard blows in, a despondent city-dweller must find a way back to his remote cabin before he freezes to death.
I am curious about the off screen backstory.? What's a city dude doing in a remote cabin?? Is there a deeper cause to his despondency than the loss of his dog?? Is his walking around lost in the blizzard a metaphor for how he is lost in a blizzard of loss and failure in his life in general?? Will thRead more
I am curious about the off screen backstory.? What’s a city dude doing in a remote cabin?? Is there a deeper cause to his despondency than the loss of his dog?? Is his walking around lost in the blizzard a metaphor for how he is lost in a blizzard of loss and failure in his life in general?? Will there be flashbacks to how he got lost in his personal life, ended up in the remote cabin?
Oh, and could the he be a she?
See lessWhen an all-work-no-play high school valedictorian who has gotten into an A-list college discovers her party-animal peers also got into A-list colleges, she resolves to cram four years of fun into one night.
Wdcurry:Your mind is in the right zone to think of the sequel potential of a premise.? In writing loglines for plots that are already done deals, made movies, I am occasionally torn between? a version that reflects the way I wish the script could have/should have been written and the way it actuallyRead more
Wdcurry:
Your mind is in the right zone to think of the sequel potential of a premise.? In writing loglines for plots that are already done deals, made movies, I am occasionally torn between? a version that reflects the way I wish the script could have/should have been written and the way it actually was.
Your version leads with what? I consider to be the most important element in a logline, the story hook.? And then it follows up with the inciting incident.? The first thing I try to identify is the inciting incident and that usually becomes the lead in the logline.? Out of habit and because that is the common practice.? And? because many times the story hook is embedded in the inciting incident (When a shark starts attacking vacationers at a beach resort…).
But in this case, the story hook is what the protagonist does in response to the inciting incident.?? And that is what I should have led off with.? You did — two thumbs up.
See lessWhen an all-work-no-play high school valedictorian who has gotten into an A-list college discovers her party-animal peers also got into A-list colleges, she resolves to cram four years of fun into one night.
Wdcurry:Nice revision.? (One minor tweak:? her peers are accepted into various A-list colleges, not the same college:? Harvard --of course!-- Yale, Stanford, etc.)
Wdcurry:
Nice revision.? (One minor tweak:? her peers are accepted into various A-list colleges, not the same college:? Harvard –of course!– Yale, Stanford, etc.)
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