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Series logline:?During the Great Die-Up of 1886, a frontiersman with a dark, shameful past must protect the family he?s taking refuge with from his old Civil War captain, now a deranged U.S. Marshal, who along with his posse is under orders from an unscrupulous company to take their land.
thedarkhourse:What's the backstory between your protagonist and? antagonist when they fought together --instead of against each other -- in the Civil War?
thedarkhourse:
What’s the backstory between your protagonist and? antagonist when they fought together –instead of against each other — in the Civil War?
See lessSeries logline: A rich, successful plastic surgeon and reformed sex addict, suffering intimacy problems with a woman who offers him stability, returns to his former psychiatrist, a manipulative woman for whom he might still be madly in love with.
the darkhorse:Your logline is posted for a series.? Upon further reflection, I would now say that the original version sets up? the dramatic engine that drives the conflict in the plot, episode after episode. after episode? Which a logline for a series needs to do.More to the point:? your original lRead more
the darkhorse:
Your logline is posted for a series.? Upon further reflection, I would now say that the original version sets up? the dramatic engine that drives the conflict in the plot, episode after episode. after episode? Which a logline for a series needs to do.
More to the point:? your original logline sells the sizzle.? ?So I think it’s good enough for marketing the script.
I would consider this version to be useful for developing the pilot plot that launches the series.
Ideally,? one logline should fulfill both purposes, for developing a script, and for marketing it. But after posting nearly 5,000 reviews of loglines, I have come to the opinon (delusion?) that it may not always be possible, or the the most effective m.o.
My thinking on the art and science of loglining is a work in progress.? I am currently inclined to suggest that feedback might be more fruitful if? you posted 2 versions of your loglines for your spec series, one for development the script, the other for selling it.
And I commend you for your forbearance with the process.
fwiw
See lessSeries logline: A rich, successful plastic surgeon and reformed sex addict, suffering intimacy problems with a woman who offers him stability, returns to his former psychiatrist, a manipulative woman for whom he might still be madly in love with.
What's the essence of story hook, here?? A relationship between two sex-aholics?? Their lovers in the bedroom -- but enemies outside of it?
What’s the essence of story hook, here?? A relationship between two sex-aholics?? Their lovers in the bedroom — but enemies outside of it?
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