1. Posted: March 31, 2017In:

    The Descent to Madness: When a mad movie director wreaks havoc on the set of his latest passion project, a selfish movie mogul must decide on the future of his legacy or the sanity of his friend.

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    >>>must decideLoglines are about what happens AFTER the protagonist decides. Loglines are not about whether to decide, when to decide, if to decide, needs to decide, must decide.Loglines are about an end of 1st Act decision that creates an objective goal and a course of action to achieve itRead more

    >>>must decide

    Loglines are about what happens AFTER the protagonist decides. Loglines are not about whether to decide, when to decide, if to decide, needs to decide, must decide.

    Loglines are about an end of 1st Act decision that creates an objective goal and a course of action to achieve it.

    Loglines are about the dramatic goal — not the dramatic dilemma.

    What is the mogul’s objective goal? ?Not his dilemma, but his goal.

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  2. Posted: March 30, 2017In:

    Thanks to a translator biochip, nobody has to speak the same language anymore. When the young CTO of the company responsible for this groundbreaking technology discovers their imminent firmware release has been hacked, she is against the clock to save everyone from bio warfare.

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    I like Adam Bernstr?m's idea.Played as?a comedy. ? Maybe the setup could be that the U.N. ?now uses digital translator technology. The staff of flesh-and-blood translators has been eliminated.Then a hacker turns the meeting of world leaders (at the U.N.) into a modern day Tower of Babel at the worstRead more

    I like Adam Bernstr?m’s idea.

    Played as?a comedy. ? Maybe the setup could be that the U.N. ?now uses digital translator technology. The staff of flesh-and-blood translators has been eliminated.

    Then a hacker turns the meeting of world leaders (at the U.N.) into a modern day Tower of Babel at the worst possible moment, in the middle of an international crisis that threatens to plunge the world into war.

    That’s a movie I would like to watch.

    fwiw

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  3. Posted: March 30, 2017In:

    A dissatisfied 30-something-year-old woman risks her long-term relationship to figure out if she?s missing out on a more exciting and passionate love life.

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    Alas, the protagonist is pursuing an amorphously defined goal to satisfy a generalized subjective need.Film is a visual medium and every element in a logline should describe a person, action or object that can be visualized on the silver screen. ?"More exciting and passionate love life" -- what's thRead more

    Alas, the protagonist is pursuing an amorphously defined goal to satisfy a generalized subjective need.

    Film is a visual medium and every element in a logline should describe a person, action or object that can be visualized on the silver screen. ?”More exciting and passionate love life” — what’s the visual on that?

    Also loglines are framed in terms of ?the pursuit of specific objective goals, not subjective needs.? In the script, ?the achievement of the objective goal has the intended or unintended consequence of fulfilling the subjective need — but that is extraneous for the purpose of a logline.

    So if her subjective need is for a spiced up love life, then the objective goal is to find a guy (or gal, depending on her sexual orientation) who provides the spice. And that is how the logline should frame her quest.

    Also loglines are about the pursuit of a Big Dream, the Biggest Dream, something the protagonist MUST have. ?So ?that’s it, her biggest dream is to get a better lay. ?And for that she’s willing to risk all? ?IMHO, her quest (however framed) seems selfish. ?She wants to pursue a better screw — and screw everyone else.

    ?Well, ?a main character can initially start out in pursuit of a wrong goal for the wrong reason. ?But what is there about her that will make the audience want to hang around, wait and hope she comes to her senses and chooses the right goal for the right reason?

    fwiw

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