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And about IMDB. ?I think it?s a valuable resource but, imho, the story summaries are not necessarily good examples of how to write a logline.The summaries of stories at IMDB are blurbs. Blurbs are designed to inform and sell the finished film to movie viewers. ?Loglines are designed to inform and seRead more
And about IMDB. ?I think it?s a valuable resource but, imho, the story summaries are not necessarily good examples of how to write a logline.
The summaries of stories at IMDB are blurbs. Blurbs are designed to inform and sell the finished film to movie viewers. ?Loglines are designed to inform and sell spec scripts to movie makers. ?Those are 2 different products targeting 2 different markets with 2 different sets of requirements.
In order to build up my own understanding and skill at composing loglines, I have built up a database of nearly 750 loglines for movies ? not scripts, but for movies that actually got made. ?And I have found IMDB to be a valuable resource for the raw material of writing a logline ? but rarely ?a polished product good enough to copy-paste into the database as a logline.
Also, in the instance of ?Eat, Pray, Love? the movie is an adaptation from a best-selling book. ?IOW: the concept, the storyline was pre-sold as a book; it?s commercial success was the hook for making the movie. ?A logline was extraneous.
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Wow, that's a lot of fish to fry in one script. ?What's the main course, the most important one?Frankly, I'm somewhat dubious about her goal of rescuing her parents' relationship. ?She can try but isn't it up to her parents to solve their own problems? ?Aren't they grown ups, autonomous agents beyonRead more
Wow, that’s a lot of fish to fry in one script. ?What’s the main course, the most important one?
Frankly, I’m somewhat dubious about her goal of rescuing her parents’ relationship. ?She can try but isn’t it up to her parents to solve their own problems? ?Aren’t they grown ups, autonomous agents beyond her control– or her responsibility? ?Of course, maybe that’s part of her character arc, coming to realize she can’t save others, she can only save herself.
How does “keep her sanity” translate into a specific goal for her life — not her parents? ?While “abandoning her own family” may be necessary, ?it’s a negative outcome. ?What’s the flip side, the positive outcome? ? How does that translate into a specific objective goal for her. ?What exactly is her future that is in jeopardy? ?What’s the visual on “her future”?
And if she manages to rescue her parents, how does that translate into enabling her to do something more than just “keep her sanity”? ?What exactly does she want to do with her sanity?
If she wasn’t trying to rescue others, what would she do to rescue herself?
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There may be a compelling human story embedded in this logline, but alas it is well hidden. ?This logline plays its cards too close to its chest to give a producer or director a clear idea what the plot is. "Confront the ghosts of her past" is an much overused trope that could refer to, well, anythiRead more
There may be a compelling human story embedded in this logline, but alas it is well hidden. ?This logline plays its cards too close to its chest to give a producer or director a clear idea what the plot is.
“Confront the ghosts of her past” is an much overused trope that could refer to, well, anything. ?Sexual molestation, drug abuse, a death of a loved one, a kidnapping, a tragic accident, a fatal disease. ?When a ?term or phrase can mean anything, it means nothing for the purpose of a logline. To reiterate, the purpose of a logline is to disclose — not conceal — what the primary conflict and dramatic action of the plot.
Also “ghost of the past” has the logline looking backward in time. ?But loglines are about what the protagonist must do living forward in time.
So what becomes the objective goal of the protagonist moving forward in time when her father shows up again in her life?
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