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When the IRS seize their fortune, an out of touch father takes his pampered wife and snotty children to live in a backwater town they once bought as a joke.
Hey - thanks for your response. I was actually trying to write a logline for Schitt's Creek as an exercise. I take your point thought - what's the father's goal? I always find that harder to nail down in shows that are designed kind of open ended, like sitcoms. I suppose it's to find a way to get thRead more
Hey – thanks for your response. I was actually trying to write a logline for Schitt’s Creek as an exercise. I take your point thought – what’s the father’s goal? I always find that harder to nail down in shows that are designed kind of open ended, like sitcoms.
See lessI suppose it’s to find a way to get the family back on their feet, or to survive – which both feel very broad and unfocussed. But that blanket kind of provides the framework for the episodes to each have their own specific goals. How do you think you’d include that kind of open ended or vague goal into the logline?
When a young man is cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, he must come to terms with his new life in a comical future full of robots, aliens, and space travel.
I mean, that's the engine isn't it, and clarifies the tone as well. I wonder though whether there's a more concrete goal that the character pursues, that will drive their actions throughout the series? 'Come to terms with' is kind of amorphous and hard to visualize what that's actually going to entaRead more
I mean, that’s the engine isn’t it, and clarifies the tone as well.
I wonder though whether there’s a more concrete goal that the character pursues, that will drive their actions throughout the series?
See less‘Come to terms with’ is kind of amorphous and hard to visualize what that’s actually going to entail.
When their demon-hunting father goes missing, two brothers band together to find him and destroy the demon that killed their mother.
It feels a little like the characters have split goals: find their father and/or destroy the demon that killed their mother. It's clear how he event (father goes missing) connects to one action (find father). But it's not clear how destroying the demon that killed their mother is related to the evenRead more
It feels a little like the characters have split goals: find their father and/or destroy the demon that killed their mother.
It’s clear how he event (father goes missing) connects to one action (find father).
But it’s not clear how destroying the demon that killed their mother is related to the event.
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