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Sophie Lamport, a headstrong, brilliant engineer, accepts her dream job developing a new form of energy storage on an isolated wind farm in Northern Ontario. But on the night of a ferocious windstorm, Sophie encounters a sinister power which changes the course of her research and mental state, forever.
I'm also thinking it may up the stakes if I set the film 10 years in the future when the world is on the brink of a global warming disaster (perhaps already flooding in coastal cities due to ice caps melting, etc.) This gives her a huge incentive to solve the engineering problem. The logline would rRead more
I’m also thinking it may up the stakes if I set the film 10 years in the future when the world is on the brink of a global warming disaster (perhaps already flooding in coastal cities due to ice caps melting, etc.) This gives her a huge incentive to solve the engineering problem.
The logline would read: “: In a world on the brink of environmental disaster, a headstrong engineer attempts to develop a new form of energy storage on an isolated wind farm in Northern Ontario. But on the eve of a ferocious windstorm, an ominous force disrupts the course of her research and mental state, forever.”
See lessSophie Lamport, a headstrong, brilliant engineer, accepts her dream job developing a new form of energy storage on an isolated wind farm in Northern Ontario. But on the night of a ferocious windstorm, Sophie encounters a sinister power which changes the course of her research and mental state, forever.
I'm also thinking it may up the stakes if I set the film 10 years in the future when the world is on the brink of a global warming disaster (perhaps already flooding in coastal cities due to ice caps melting, etc.) This gives her a huge incentive to solve the engineering problem. The logline would rRead more
I’m also thinking it may up the stakes if I set the film 10 years in the future when the world is on the brink of a global warming disaster (perhaps already flooding in coastal cities due to ice caps melting, etc.) This gives her a huge incentive to solve the engineering problem.
The logline would read: “: In a world on the brink of environmental disaster, a headstrong engineer attempts to develop a new form of energy storage on an isolated wind farm in Northern Ontario. But on the eve of a ferocious windstorm, an ominous force disrupts the course of her research and mental state, forever.”
See lessSophie Lamport, a headstrong, brilliant engineer, accepts her dream job developing a new form of energy storage on an isolated wind farm in Northern Ontario. But on the night of a ferocious windstorm, Sophie encounters a sinister power which changes the course of her research and mental state, forever.
To answer the first question: yes I do have a definitive answer for how the film is resolved, but I agree with you that it doesn't need to (or shouldn't be) answered in the logline. To your second point about why the aliens need her... this is actually something I've been struggling with as well. IRead more
To answer the first question: yes I do have a definitive answer for how the film is resolved, but I agree with you that it doesn’t need to (or shouldn’t be) answered in the logline.
To your second point about why the aliens need her… this is actually something I’ve been struggling with as well. I want them to need her, but at the same time I agree that it doesn’t make sense logically as they would have already invented the technology and if they have the ability to replace her partner, why don’t they just get him to build it?
Do you (or anyone) have any suggestions for this?
My ideas as possibilities:
1) They want her to implement the technology to drain energy from the earth before taking it form her, and having her believe she invented it will have her do exactly that (although this still doesn’t make sense if they have the ability to replace her co-worker, why don’t they replace her?)
2) Somehow the information on how to develop it has been lost and they only have pieces of it (what they give her) and she needs to fill in the rest of the details… this only works if I can figure out how/why the information has been lost… the only thing I can think of is that they are from the future and travel to the past to gather this information which is how they got it in the first place… but this may be overly complicated..
I’m sure there is a simpler answer, but I haven’t exactly figure it out yet.
Also, thanks dpg for engaging in a discussion about this with me! It is very helpful.
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