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A popular dubstep artist who likes writing music about aliens and making fun of them. After a concert he is abducted and taken to outer space and has to get back to earth before the aliens kill him.
This reads like a fairly generic alien abduction movie as most of them involve an alien abducting a human and the human needing to escape to save his or her life. What is his flaw? This will make him a unique character. Who is the main alien that wanted him abducted and what makes him so revered? ThRead more
This reads like a fairly generic alien abduction movie as most of them involve an alien abducting a human and the human needing to escape to save his or her life.
What is his flaw? This will make him a unique character.
Who is the main alien that wanted him abducted and what makes him so revered? This will make him or her a unique antagonist.
What is the aliens original motivation to abduct him? This will motivate them uniquely and help define his obstacle.
The part in the logline about “A popular dubstep artist who likes writing music about aliens and making fun of them. After a concert…” is redundant and too long instead all you would need is the inciting incident. “After being abducted by aliens a dub step artist must…”
Hope this helps.
See lessA popular dubstep artist who likes writing music about aliens and making fun of them. After a concert he is abducted and taken to outer space and has to get back to earth before the aliens kill him.
This reads like a fairly generic alien abduction movie as most of them involve an alien abducting a human and the human needing to escape to save his or her life. What is his flaw? This will make him a unique character. Who is the main alien that wanted him abducted and what makes him so revered? ThRead more
This reads like a fairly generic alien abduction movie as most of them involve an alien abducting a human and the human needing to escape to save his or her life.
What is his flaw? This will make him a unique character.
Who is the main alien that wanted him abducted and what makes him so revered? This will make him or her a unique antagonist.
What is the aliens original motivation to abduct him? This will motivate them uniquely and help define his obstacle.
The part in the logline about “A popular dubstep artist who likes writing music about aliens and making fun of them. After a concert…” is redundant and too long instead all you would need is the inciting incident. “After being abducted by aliens a dub step artist must…”
Hope this helps.
See lessIn Barrow, Alaska, an up-and-coming oil executive struggles with damage control in the aftermath of a bizarre incident on a drilling barge that kills most of its crew, but when a primordial fungus brought up from under the ice begins to infect the local hospital staff, turning them into voracious sex fiends out to inject their spores, he abandons saving his career and fights to save his life.
I had a problem picking the genre of the story. When reading the logline in its current draft the first half of it describes an environmental corporate movie where as the second half describes a scifi natural disaster one. The combination and the timing in the read creates a jolt as the reader is prRead more
I had a problem picking the genre of the story.
When reading the logline in its current draft the first half of it describes an environmental corporate movie where as the second half describes a scifi natural disaster one. The combination and the timing in the read creates a jolt as the reader is preparing for one genre before the story changes to another very quickly.
Well demonstrated by Richiev that the inciting incident needs to come first and the inciting incident is the fungus infection not the oil spill. This way the scifi natural disaster element informs the reader upfront what to expect as well as fulfil the function of a structured plot element.
With mass infection type stories I find that the nature of the symptoms defines the genre as dramatic, horror or comic. I think that “…sex fiends out to inject their spores…” sounds comic/horror, is this the case?
Hope this helps.
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