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Taking on warring Texas drug cartels, a female Iraq war vet of color, a teenage hunk from the feed store, and a cattle dog, come to the aid of a neighbor who\'s son has been kidnapped.
Some posters here have been applauding intriguing, but totally mysterious loglines, so Ieft. Now that people have come to their senses, I'm back. I've been getting synopsis reads with: "Taking on warring Texas drug cartels, two rancher women (an Iraq war vet and an ex-NYC fashion model), have 72 houRead more
Some posters here have been applauding intriguing, but totally mysterious loglines, so Ieft. Now that people have come to their senses, I’m back.
I’ve been getting synopsis reads with: “Taking on warring Texas drug cartels, two rancher women (an Iraq war vet and an ex-NYC fashion model), have 72 hours to save a son from kidnappers.”
My famous music producer friend in NYC, who has all the music connections, won’t let me let it stay in the drawer because he thinks it’s a winner, so he has me converting it to a Kindle book. H’Wood seems to prefer popular books over spec scripts these days. I also think I can be making some money on Amazon with it, while I find a producer.
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Thanks. My point is, if the plot is not something someone is interested in, it's good to know up front so making the logline as intriguing but mysterious as possible is not a good way to go in my opinion. They either want a contemporary Western with 2 female mirror/mentor protagonists or they do notRead more
Thanks. My point is, if the plot is not something someone is interested in, it’s good to know up front so making the logline as intriguing but mysterious as possible is not a good way to go in my opinion. They either want a contemporary Western with 2 female mirror/mentor protagonists or they do not. So to try to hide that fact to get them to start reading the script is counterproductive in my opinion. Winning against all odds is the key, and The Blindside had that in spades in my opinion. The only thing was the young man was already really good at football but the film made it seem like he had to learn to play, so the arc was a lot steeper.
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Okay, thanks, SharkEatingMan. Actually the logline I posted was from IMDB. The one you offered here tells the story well, but would it get the script read? Only if a producer were interested in a football movie which it was. I still think the fact that she is a well-to-do white lady in the South andRead more
Okay, thanks, SharkEatingMan. Actually the logline I posted was from IMDB. The one you offered here tells the story well, but would it get the script read? Only if a producer were interested in a football movie which it was. I still think the fact that she is a well-to-do white lady in the South and he’s huge and black and poor is integral to the GREAT STORY. She fought the town and she won. Then a Christian marketing group picked it up and marketed it from the pulpits across the country (this fact is from a panel at last year’s Inktip Pitchfest).
So which one would get the most reads, the IMDB version or this one you put forth about football? Maybe we need different loglines to send out to different people. Or maybe even more mysterious? Not in my opinion. No one likes to be tricked and no one wants their time wasted.
So I’m of the opinion that to write an obsfucated logline just to get someone to read a script with a plot that is of no interest to them, makes no logical sense to me. Why waste people’s time? It’s like me — soon as I see werewolf, zombie or vampire, I’m “Next!”
I have to assume that the logline should match the story to prevent people from tossing the script across the room on page twenty when they realize what it’s REALLY about, and they’ve wasted time they could have been reading a script closer to a story subject they’re looking for.
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