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The stag night before his wedding, a man is handcuffed to a stripper – who turns out to be wanted by cops, the mob, and her psychotic boyfriend.
You have some good plot details as far as conflict, but tell us about the guy all this is happening to: what's he like? If he's the main character we need to understand his perspective of the events in which he gets involved. It makes a big difference to the tone if he's an easygoing accountant vs.Read more
You have some good plot details as far as conflict, but tell us about the guy all this is happening to: what’s he like? If he’s the main character we need to understand his perspective of the events in which he gets involved. It makes a big difference to the tone if he’s an easygoing accountant vs. a former assassin.
The phrasing and structure could use some tweaking as well. Just saying he IS? handcuffed to a stripper makes it sound intentional and underwhelming — even though it’s obviously a conflict, it still needs to come across as such. It would also be a stronger conflict, especially for the stripper character, if the psycho is an ex-boyfriend. Not making him an ex makes it sound like she approves of and appreciates his psychotic nature, which seems unlikely…however if that is the specific intention, it still could work…depending on the tone and execution in the script.
The phrase “stag night” is not as widely recognized as “bachelor party”, and you could lose the phrase “before his wedding” as that’s already understood. Use the word count to help define the situation as more than plot; give us a better idea how the character feels about these things. We need to know more than just what happens; it has to be compelling and interesting as conflict from a character’s point of view.
I also generally recommend starting a logline with the protagonist, as we tend to to care more about the people these things are happening to than merely the things which are happening. That’s how scripts themselves are usually structured, so loglines should be built the same way.
Maybe something like ” An easygoing accountant gets stuck handcuffed to his bachelor party stripper — who is being chased by the cops, the mob, and her psychotic ex-boyfriend.”
Normally I prefer loglines to be one straightforward sentence, no commas or other punctuation, but there are definitely times when it’s okay to use them. For one thing, you have a group of antagonists, so commas are needed for the list — just don’t fill the entire logline with pauses for no reason. The way this is structured, you have the distinct pause after the protagonist and conflict are made clear — without this moment, the whole thing would feel like a rush to get out the information and be unnatural, so it’s better to include it. After the pause, there is a list of antagonists stacking the deck against your main character, and the stakes are implied so they don’t need to be stated outright…thus you have everything you need!
See lessIt’s 2151 and a bio scientist finds herself in the middle of the largest coverup in history. She begins a race against time to expose her former CEO?s deceit or else mankind changes forever.
Still not making any sense and has extraneous apostrophes. Why does it matter what year it is? There's nothing else described here which couldn't be happening right now. Why does it matter that she's timid? How does this character trait affect her actions, conflicts, and situations within the story?Read more
Still not making any sense and has extraneous apostrophes. Why does it matter what year it is? There’s nothing else described here which couldn’t be happening right now.
Why does it matter that she’s timid? How does this character trait affect her actions, conflicts, and situations within the story? Where is the irony of this issue? Why is she racing against time? What’s setting that time limit, what’s the rush?
What you’re doing here is introducing ideas without making it clear why they’re a part of the story, thus, we don’t get a clear idea of the story.
Even more unclear is the latter part: who’s going to be controlling society? The artificial humans? Why is that bad? Or does the CEO want control? Why? How’s that going to affect people?
Like I said, the ideas are presented but not the story. Tell us the basics of what happens in the first half. And proofread the apostrophes.
See lessAfter being dumped by his girlfriend for the bad boy, a nice guy wishes everyone was nice and wakes up in a world where everyone is, but discovers a nice world isn?t so nice
There's two commas in here and no period at the end. The word "nice" is used four times and I have no idea what's going on the story because of the structure of the logline. Is this how the script is structured? It starts AFTER an inciting incident? Think about the manner and order in which you're pRead more
There’s two commas in here and no period at the end. The word “nice” is used four times and I have no idea what’s going on the story because of the structure of the logline. Is this how the script is structured? It starts AFTER an inciting incident? Think about the manner and order in which you’re presenting information to your readers. You want it clear, simple, straightforward. If I have to read your logline two or more times just to figure out what the story is, the logline doesn’t work. It should be one single sentence that moves everything forward without slowing down. Pronoun clarity goes a long way toward making this work, and when you keep going back and forth between various characters without a more straightforward structure, it’s hard to know who’s who and who’s doing what or why.
So what’s the issue with the nice world? This is the hook of your story and you’ve left it blank. It’s an intriguing concept you’ve failed to mention. What WOULD happen if everyone in the world was nice? We need some idea of the second act or we don’t get enough of your story.
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