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Following the discovery of an enemy radar station?s location, a pilot?s brash behavior threatens his chance to destroy it and earn the respect he craves.
mop1011:Good! Therefore, IMHO: the logline ought to ?say so with words like "The true story of..." , "Inspired by... " or "Based upon true events...." or some such. ?Truth is stranger than fiction and also a stronger selling point for the concept. ?Particularly for a story set in the distant past ,Read more
mop1011:
Good! Therefore, IMHO: the logline ought to ?say so with words like “The true story of…” , “Inspired by… ” or “Based upon true events….” or some such. ?Truth is stranger than fiction and also a stronger selling point for the concept. ?
Particularly for a story set in the distant past , like WW2. ?Yes ?WW2 is in the distant past now, two generations removed . ?So the only way to engage the interest of a contemporary audience in war story from that period is if it’s based on events that really happened, people who actually lived.
IOW: ?I don’t think a fictional WW2 ?story is marketable anymore. ?The sole exception to that economic reality is if the name on the script is Quentin Tarantino (“Inglourious Basterds”) ?- he has ascended to a difference universe where the ?rules the rest of us have to play by don’t apply. ? I could be wrong, but Tarantino’s flick excepted, I can’t recall another ?commercially successful film with a fictional story set in WW2 that has been made in the this century. ?Or any fictional WW2 film made in this century other than “Inglourious Basterds”. ?Can you?
My default assumption was that your story is totally fictional. And I suspect my assumption is typical. So I think logline readers are more likely to be interested in the script if they know it’s based on actual historical events.
fwiw
See lessFollowing the discovery of an enemy radar station?s location, a pilot?s brash behavior threatens his chance to destroy it and earn the respect he craves.
Is this story based upon ?or "inspired by" events or a real life pilot in the Pacific theater of World War II? ?Or is it entirely fictional?
Is this story based upon ?or “inspired by” events or a real life pilot in the Pacific theater of World War II? ?Or is it entirely fictional?
See lessA college grad stuck in a dead-end job impersonates a tech ?it girl? in order to get hired at NYC?s hottest startup, but when the company is secretly in danger of folding without a game-changing new product, she learns she has more to offer as herself than she knew.
Check out the guidelines for writing an industry standard logline under "Formula" at the top of the web page. Loglines are about actions taken, not lessons learned about life, or inner strengths or weaknesses. ?Loglines are about how the protagonist struggles for a specific objective goal and the maRead more
Check out the guidelines for writing an industry standard logline under “Formula” at the top of the web page. Loglines are about actions taken, not lessons learned about life, or inner strengths or weaknesses. ?Loglines are about how the protagonist struggles for a specific objective goal and the main obstacle or antagonist who stands in her way. So:
With the company in danger of going under, what becomes her objective goal?
See lessWho/what stands in the way , who/what ?threatens to defeat her achieving that goal?