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A married man sees his wife and young daughter suffer physical and mental afflictions in the wake of an ill-fated affair, as unseen forces appear determined to get the truth out.
The logline should be a concise statement of a plot.? This logline sets up a situation for a plot, but it doesn't follow through with a statement of the plot.I'm guessing the married man is the protagonist and as such he should be? a proactive character.? Instead the logline casts him in the role ofRead more
The logline should be a concise statement of a plot.? This logline sets up a situation for a plot, but it doesn’t follow through with a statement of the plot.
I’m guessing the married man is the protagonist and as such he should be? a proactive character.? Instead the logline casts him in the role of a passive observer, and further as a character who is being acted? upon by “unseen forces” who seem to be driving the plot? Which is the protagonist’s job.
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See lessThe Balcony-Scaler, The Train-Feeder, The Skin-Scratcher, and The Pornographic-Men. All serial killers. Their crimes committed the same decade, inside the same city where detectives will lose hope in search of justice.
Like lempicka I'm not sure who is the protagonist or what the plot is, necessary elements that a logline should clearly indicate.??>>The serial killers were assigned to the the city.Need to know information that ought to be in the logline because it's an element that sets the film apart from oRead more
Like lempicka I’m not sure who is the protagonist or what the plot is, necessary elements that a logline should clearly indicate.?
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Need to know information that ought to be in the logline because it’s an element that sets the film apart from other films in the crime genre about serial killers.
See lessBrought together by chance an unwonted romance blooms between an affluent twenty-something and a down on his luck mendicant.
Like Richiev says.? ?Taking the logline at face value, it says the they meet accidentally and fall in love .? End of film.? Which is to say, that those elements by themselves aren't enough? for a romantic film.? There needs to be wedge issue that threatens to drive them apart.? Or a seemingly insurmRead more
Like Richiev says.? ?Taking the logline at face value, it says the they meet accidentally and fall in love .? End of film.? Which is to say, that those elements by themselves aren’t enough? for a romantic film.? There needs to be wedge issue that threatens to drive them apart.? Or a seemingly insurmountable barrier that stands between their living happily ever after.
Like in “Romeo and Juliet”.? The star-crossed lovers meet accidentally and immediately fall in love.? But there’s a problem:? they belong to families that are waging a bloody feud.? There is no way their parents will allow them to marry. And as a further complication (with a ticking clock), Juliet’s father betroths her to another man.
There’s the possibility of? wedge issue or barrier arising from the fact that one is rich, the other is poor.? But? the logline doesn’t explicitly say it is a source of conflict or a? ?barrier.
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