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Update: When a night of UFO watching goes terribly wrong, a 12-year-old aspiring astronaut makes contact in a way she never expected. (SciFi/Family)
A plot for a scripts always ?has the character expecting or hoping one thing will happen -- and something ?else happens instead. ?It's standard operating proceduce in drama, script writing 101. ??If a characters gets what he expected or hoped for after the inciting incident -- what's the drama, theRead more
A plot for a scripts always ?has the character expecting or hoping one thing will happen — and something ?else happens instead. ?It’s standard operating proceduce in drama, script writing 101. ??If a characters gets what he expected or hoped for after the inciting incident — what’s the drama, the tension, the conflict in that?
So its no “news”, ? no hook or grab in a logline to say that something unexpected happens. Logline readers expect that something unexpected will happen to the main character.
What matters is the?significance of the unexpected event , the consequences that follow from the unexpected event. ? That is, the problem ?(or opportunity) created by the unexpected event. ?What is the character going to do about it?
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The logline baits and switches. It baits the reader with the prospect of an alien sighting -- then switches to something else altogether, a storm, an accident, no where near as interesting.The purpose of a logline is to bring forward, highlight, and pitch the most interesting aspect of the story., aRead more
The logline baits and switches. It baits the reader with the prospect of an alien sighting — then switches to something else altogether, a storm, an accident, no where near as interesting.
The purpose of a logline is to bring forward, highlight, and pitch the most interesting aspect of the story., aka: ” the grab” or “the hook. ?
What’s the hook in this script? ?The accident? ?The storm? ?The fight for her life? ?No, it’s the prospect of an alien sighting and the consequences that follow from that event.
Is the script going to deliver on that prospect? ?Is that what the script is about?
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See lessA desperate African King of 1890s must unite independent neighboring warlords, who are conspiring against him; to save their common country from upcoming European colonial invaders and to fulfill the revolutionary dreams of a patriotic Emperor whom he has betrayed to death
Is this about the struggle to unite tribal factions in Ethiopia to repel the Italian invasion of 1896? ?If not, what country and what historical character is the story about?
Is this about the struggle to unite tribal factions in Ethiopia to repel the Italian invasion of 1896? ?If not, what country and what historical character is the story about?
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