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Novel: A french teenager runs away to fulfill his dream of becoming an actor in L.A.
>>>Well, the story isn?t about him becoming an actor especially, But that's not what the logline says.
>>>Well, the story isn?t about him becoming an actor especially,
But that’s not what the logline says.
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As foxtrot25 said: >>>>With film, you need to focus it down to laser or cherrypick from the 3 act structure.Yep, then prune down the cherries to the one with the core hook and unifying plot line for a logline the pilot episode.No doubt, a hard task for such a complex and extended story lRead more
As foxtrot25 said:
>>>>With film, you need to focus it down to laser or cherrypick from the 3 act structure.
Yep, then prune down the cherries to the one with the core hook and unifying plot line for a logline the pilot episode.
No doubt, a hard task for such a complex and extended story line as the one you conceive.? But that’s what it takes to get your script read.? And only you can do the pruning because only you know your story.? We can only evaluate and suggest tweaks to the logline.
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>>> always a fun exercise to reverse-engineer as if the show/movie was going to be sold by an up and coming authorTrue.? And it can be a useful exercise for honing one's skill in writing loglines.? It certainly has been for me.? It's an exercise I've performed on almost 800 movies to date.?Read more
>>> always a fun exercise to reverse-engineer as if the show/movie was going to be sold by an up and coming author
True.? And it can be a useful exercise for honing one’s skill in writing loglines.? It certainly has been for me.? It’s an exercise I’ve performed on almost 800 movies to date.?
[I started writing loglines for movies to build an adequate sample size in order to prove or disprove by hard statistics the intuitive rule of thumb that the ideal maximum word length was 25 words.? I proved to my satisfaction that on average (mean and median), the 25 maximum word length is valid. And then I kept writing loglines for movies to? hone my knowledge and skills.]
But I have to be aware not to compare?apples to oranges.? ?That just because a movie got made by a Hollywood insider in spite of a weak hook and insipid plot line does not give me the license to do the same with my own scripts.
The frustrating truth is that movies get made all the time with weak hooks and insipid plot lines.
All the [expletive deleted] time.
And when I look at the curriculum vitae of the writers for such lousy films, in almost every case they got made by Insiders, someone with an agent, with connections — not by a complete Outsider.? They got made because of connections, because of who the screenwriter knew, not solely on the merits of the concept, the script.
?The hard reality is that Outsiders face higher hurdles to clear in getting their scripts read then Insiders.? They need loglines with effective hooks and clear plots.?
Just saying.
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