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The last Scribe in a technology ruled false utopian future must unite with an android that contains the entirety of human history, before the ruling corporation can enact their final technological control onto the masses.
There's no hard rule. Only guidelines. Thirty words seems to be the conventional wisdom. How this wisdom was arrived it and by whom, I know not. So I put the conventional wisdom to a test. I collected and analyzed 600 randomly chosen loglines of scripts that survived the green light gauntlet and actRead more
There’s no hard rule. Only guidelines. Thirty words seems to be the conventional wisdom. How this wisdom was arrived it and by whom, I know not.
So I put the conventional wisdom to a test. I collected and analyzed 600 randomly chosen loglines of scripts that survived the green light gauntlet and actually got made into films. The median length for the sample was 23 words. Nearly 87% of the loglines were 30 words or less. None of them in my sample exceeded 40 words. So I take 40 words I take as my tolerable limit.
The madness behind the measure of an arbitrary maximum length is the presumption that studio suits are busy people facing scores of loglines per day fighting for quality eye ball time. A logline has only a precious few seconds to get it. Ergo, less (aka: “high concept”) is almost always better than more.
My takeaway from crunching hard numbers: while not everyone will agree with the presumption or the conventional wisdom, I see no reason not to.
fwiw
See lessA lazy but gifted high-school kid blackmails his adulterous parents and uses the money to start his own business, in an attempt to woo the girl of his dreams.
As Richiev said. >>Also he doesn?t need to blackmail his parents Then what does he NEED? He WANTS the girl, but...
As Richiev said.
>>Also he doesn?t need to blackmail his parents
Then what does he NEED? He WANTS the girl, but…
See lessA lazy but gifted high-school kid blackmails his adulterous parents and uses the money to start his own business, in an attempt to woo the girl of his dreams.
As Richiev said. >>Also he doesn?t need to blackmail his parents Then what does he NEED? He WANTS the girl, but...
As Richiev said.
>>Also he doesn?t need to blackmail his parents
Then what does he NEED? He WANTS the girl, but…
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