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  1. Posted: September 4, 2020In: SciFi

    A high school student must race against time to stop robots from invading her school.

    Mike Pedley Singularity
    Replied to answer on September 5, 2020 at 7:08 am

    I'm not sure these really satisfy the questions Odie put forward. 1) We need to understand this world in order to imagine it. I think what Odie was getting at (correct me if I'm wrong) is tell us, in the logline, what MUST we understand about this world to understand the story. 2) Asking who she isRead more

    I’m not sure these really satisfy the questions Odie put forward.

    1) We need to understand this world in order to imagine it. I think what Odie was getting at (correct me if I’m wrong) is tell us, in the logline, what MUST we understand about this world to understand the story.
    2) Asking who she is isn’t the same as asking her name. Odie was asking what is so special about this girl that we, the audience, will believe that she is capable of stopping a robot invasion. Being bullied does make her qualified and neither does the fact she joins a clique of other girls. Why is she the hero?
    3) We need the inciting incident in the logline. That’s what Odie is asking for. His questions are ones which we must get from the logline – not from a further post.
    4) I don’t understand this at all. The robots destroyed her town and invade her school in order to get the girl’s bully?????? Based on what you currently have in your logline and all the additional information, this doesn’t add up at all.

    Hope this helps.

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  2. Posted: August 26, 2020In: Action

    After facing corruption in the porn industry, a film director and an aging actress teams up and kills those who is about to release their sex tape.

    Mike Pedley Singularity
    Added an answer on August 27, 2020 at 6:00 pm

    They work in the porn industry, what's so devastating about their sex tape being released? Isn't killing them a bit of an extreme reaction to it? For that to make sense we need to understand the consequences of the tape being released. What's at stake? "After facing corruption in the porn industry"Read more

    They work in the porn industry, what’s so devastating about their sex tape being released? Isn’t killing them a bit of an extreme reaction to it? For that to make sense we need to understand the consequences of the tape being released. What’s at stake?

    “After facing corruption in the porn industry” – what does this mean? Specifically, what is happening on screen. The inciting incident isn’t a general thing, it’s a highly specific moment in time that sets up the goal for the protagonist.

    Action film? Really? I don’t see anything in this logline that suggests Action. Two people conspiring to kill people covertly so as not to get caught… sounds like a Thriller to me. You have to understand the genre and its conventions and use them to make your logline work. The genre should be present in your logline.

    Hope this helps.

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  3. Posted: August 25, 2020In: Television

    A despondent social media planner weighted with a newfound ability to see past lives is forced to confront her karma and that of everyone she knows or remain condemned to repeat their same mistakes for an eternity.

    Mike Pedley Singularity
    Added an answer on August 25, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    "forced to confront" - what does that look like on screen? Film is a visual medium so everything in the logline must be something we can imagine seeing on screen. If the inciting incident is her developing the ability to see everybody's past lives, her goal needs to be closely related to that. ProblRead more

    “forced to confront” – what does that look like on screen? Film is a visual medium so everything in the logline must be something we can imagine seeing on screen.

    If the inciting incident is her developing the ability to see everybody’s past lives, her goal needs to be closely related to that. Problem is, that is something very difficult to visualise on screen. What does a woman seeing everyone’s past lives look like. More importantly, what goal does it set up? I’m guessing, since this is a TV show, that every episode will focus on a specific person she encounters? Then there’ll be an overarching story about her own past lives etc. Is that right?

    So, with that in mind, you need to consider a visual goal that this can set up. “Confront her karma” is not a visual goal. That’s more the internal arc, similar to Eleanor in The Good Place – she’s confronted with how horrible she was in life. So your protagonist’s goal, if she’s acting benevolently is going to be to help these people, and this in turn helps herself. Could she become a “past lives therapist” or something? Offer her services to people who come to her for help. Maybe, rather than despondent, she’s selfish. Her offering these services for money starts her off as doing something purely for personal gain, she needs the cash. But over the course of Season 1, she starts changing internally and gets invested in other people’s lives. She wants to help them. Then, maybe have it so all the way through season 1, she only deals with other people’s past lives, but on the last episode she’s faced with her own. She needed to change enough to be able to see it.

    “A selfish social media influencer discovers the ability to see people’s past lives and uses her status to set up a “former lives therapy” clinic to monetise her gift but becomes increasingly absorbed in her patients’ past.”

    I have no idea if this is the story you want to tell, but I would watch this show!

    Hope this helps in some way.

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