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A seemingly well adjusted 29 year old film maker is forced to face his own insecurities when forced to produce a movie on teenage female self esteem
Raises too many questions without making anything clear. Why does he only seem to be well-adjusted? What are his insecurities? How can he be forced to make a movie? Why is the movie about such a topic?
Raises too many questions without making anything clear. Why does he only seem to be well-adjusted? What are his insecurities? How can he be forced to make a movie? Why is the movie about such a topic?
See lessWhen a white man uses tribal magic to kill people with their own shadows an Aboriginal youth is sent to stop him from destroying reality.
Try it the other way around. Start with the protagonist, spell out his goal and his conflict: "A young Aborigine must stop a white man using tribal magic to murder people with their own shadows." Stopping a killer is enough of a necessity that you don't need to mention the end of reality in the loglRead more
Try it the other way around. Start with the protagonist, spell out his goal and his conflict:
“A young Aborigine must stop a white man using tribal magic to murder people with their own shadows.”
Stopping a killer is enough of a necessity that you don’t need to mention the end of reality in the logline. In a synopsis, sure, because you can spend a couple sentences explaining what that means. But you don’t want people asking questions in response to a logline because they don’t understand it — you want them asking questions because they’re interested to know more.
See lessin the near future a Government sponsored torturer is using his position to steal information and money from death row inmates. He is unaware that his next prisoner is an undercover agent sent to trap him.
Unfortunately this sounds like a situation in which the logline doesn't work because the whole story doesn't work. Maybe it makes more sense when reading the whole thing, but if so, the logline has to reflect that.
Unfortunately this sounds like a situation in which the logline doesn’t work because the whole story doesn’t work. Maybe it makes more sense when reading the whole thing, but if so, the logline has to reflect that.
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