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A serial killer taxi driver takes revenge on behalf of victimised passengers while trying to avoid detection.
Agreed with DPG I actually thought this was a logline for Taxi Driver until I realised it wasn't in the classics section. "...a person doing bad things for good reasons..." describes most antagonists throughout time, you basically want to tell the story of an anti hero. Stories about anti heroes wilRead more
Agreed with DPG I actually thought this was a logline for Taxi Driver until I realised it wasn’t in the classics section.
“…a person doing bad things for good reasons…” describes most antagonists throughout time, you basically want to tell the story of an anti hero. Stories about anti heroes will always have an audience, but best to research the genres and types of characters that have been done already – Taxi Driver, Dexter, Psycho (half of…), The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc…
Secondly in regards to the logline it self, it doesn’t describe a plot rather a situation.
See lessWhat ever direction you choose to develop the concept in, best to focus on specific events and actions i.e inciting incident and goal.
With no will left after her mother dies, a bitter, middle-aged woman comes back to her hometown and battles her siblings in order to convince the family lawyer that she deserves her mother’s rich estate.
The MC seems rather selfish, could she not try instead to fight them to share equally inn the estate? Secondly middle-aged woman is to vague a description for a logline, perhaps best to describe her profession instead? The nature of what she does for a living could imply the way in which she will haRead more
The MC seems rather selfish, could she not try instead to fight them to share equally inn the estate?
Secondly middle-aged woman is to vague a description for a logline, perhaps best to describe her profession instead? The nature of what she does for a living could imply the way in which she will handle the battle with the siblings, which is essentially the bulk of action in the story.
For instance:
After her mother dies without leaving a will, a bitter MMA fighter comes back home and battles her siblings to get them all to share equally in the rich estate.
I chose MMA for laughs but you get the picture.
See lessDying single father on the run from his criminal past must come to grips with series of choices that led him to commit murder in order to procure a new suitable home for his young son with special needs.
Without a fully developed script a logline is also a helpful structuring and concept testing tool. If the goal is to get a suitable home for his son, the inciting incident should be his son being kicked out or losing his home, otherwise the question is raised - why now? The dying of cancer "tickingRead more
Without a fully developed script a logline is also a helpful structuring and concept testing tool.
If the goal is to get a suitable home for his son, the inciting incident should be his son being kicked out or losing his home, otherwise the question is raised – why now?
The dying of cancer “ticking time bomb” is a good addition, but is it necessary to the story and therefore logline? I think not.
After his Autistic son is forced out on the streets, a convict must escape prison and buy a house for his son to live in before he is caught and put back behind bars for life.
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