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Fleeing an unseen force controlling their minds, an old man and his two nieces hijack a woman’s car only to discover she’s already picked up a familiar hitchhiker.
Good points by Nir Shelter. ?Especially about the need for a consistent "dramatic mechanism" ?that sustains the motivation of the character from episode to episode. And creates endless complications -- that propels the plotline forward. ?The producer will want to sense that about the character."DextRead more
Good points by Nir Shelter. ?Especially about the need for a consistent “dramatic mechanism” ?that sustains the motivation of the character from episode to episode. And creates endless complications — that propels the plotline forward. ?The producer will want to sense that about the character.
“Dexter” is a good example. He’s gotta kill — that’s his psychopathology, the compulsion that drives him, that complicates his professional and personal life in every episode. ?Dexter’s defining characteristic was the hook for series.
What’s the character hook in this series? ?
It’s the characters not the situations that lay the foundation for a series.
See lessAfter being held hostage on a first date for her suitor’s substantial drug debt, a teenage girl must rob her parents anonymously.
And how can she rob her parents?if she's being held hostage?
And how can she rob her parents?if she’s being held hostage?
See lessAfter her daughter is brutally assaulted and raped by a group of racist boys at school, a tough Vietnamese beautician seeks to torture the boys’ mothers at her beauty salon.
Since the protagonist is the character inflicting the torture, do you want ?the audience to at least initially sympathize with her -- or you don't care? ?If you want to elicit the audience's sympathy for the woman then the logline should indicate that she resorts to torturing the mothers ?after theRead more
Since the protagonist is the character inflicting the torture, do you want ?the audience to at least initially sympathize with her — or you don’t care?
?If you want to elicit the audience’s sympathy for the woman then the logline should indicate that she resorts to torturing the mothers ?after the justice system fails to punish the kids. ?The kids ?get off because of the parents prominence in the community.
?But then?why would the women continue to patronize the business of the woman whose daughter accused their darling sons of rape?
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