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Renee must convince her group to stick to the plan in a future reality show where people die and the only reward is survival.
Hi Craig as you can see from the above comments the mechanism of game play is irrelevant especially in such a prolific genre. No matter how interesting a game and how challenging the rules are your audience will be ahead of you once they realise the genre. That will happen with in the first 10 minutRead more
Hi Craig as you can see from the above comments the mechanism of game play is irrelevant especially in such a prolific genre. No matter how interesting a game and how challenging the rules are your audience will be ahead of you once they realise the genre. That will happen with in the first 10 minutes of the film or more importantly within the first 10 pages of reading the script.
I think best to focus on the character her flaw and her inner journey as these are the only things that will set this story apart from its multiple iterations in other films.
Hope this helps.
See lessWhen an out spoken video gamer returns home to care for her injured father. She must enter into and win a video game tournament to keep her fathers farm.
In that case I would describe the inciting incident first as it is the major source of motivation for the MC. For example: After her father suffers a stroke an introvert professional gammer must assemble and lead a team of gammers to win a worldwide gaming tournament in order to pay for her father'sRead more
In that case I would describe the inciting incident first as it is the major source of motivation for the MC.
For example:
After her father suffers a stroke an introvert professional gammer must assemble and lead a team of gammers to win a worldwide gaming tournament in order to pay for her father’s care and save his farm.
I think if you make the stakes his health they are higher than his farm alone and worldwide tournament increases the challenge as the competition would be greater than a local one.
Her being estranged is unrelated to the main plot it is likely a sub plot and can be left for the synopsis a this stage.
See lessBased on real events. “After a decorated Wehrmacht officer?s family accidentally is sent to a Nazi death camp he must save them before the camp commandant dismantles the camp and kills all the inmates.”
It seams that you are at a cross roads of your own with regards to this concept. 1) Follow the original text as closely as possible making the wife the MC with a true story. Wether it happened or not the inciting incident (getting on the wrong train) seams to challenge the suspension of disbelief foRead more
It seams that you are at a cross roads of your own with regards to this concept.
1) Follow the original text as closely as possible making the wife the MC with a true story. Wether it happened or not the inciting incident (getting on the wrong train) seams to challenge the suspension of disbelief for most readers which is a big problem for a logline. Further it appears to have a seemingly small amount of action (both verbal and physical) able to sustain an entire feature.
2) Create a fictional story making the husband the MC which won’t be a true story but based on real events. In which case the exact mode of transport to the death camp can be left out of the logline and the inciting incident is his family being sent to a death camp. In the synopsis you can decide how this happened and how he learns of it to make the inciting incident credible as this is a fictional story. He must save his family from the commandant but in order to do that he must learn the error of his ways as a Nazi officer this gives you an external goal and an inner journey of growth.
In this case you have a MC with a heroes journey, clear goal, an antagonist, high stakes and a ticking time bomb.
The outer and inner journeys are directly related to each other in option 2 as the outer journey can only be completed after he completes his inner journey.
This is what powerful stories are made of.
e.g:
See lessBased on real events, after a decorated Wehrmacht officer’s family is accidentally sent to a Nazi death camp he must save them before the camp commandant dismantles the camp and kills all the inmates.