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A cocksure student and his siblings must covertly recreate their parents' wedding video after accidentally destroying the original two weeks before the tape is needed for a television special honoring their father.
Spot on. Stakes are almost non existent. Will rethink. :)
Spot on. Stakes are almost non existent. Will rethink. 🙂
See lessAfter being rejected by his Italo-American mafioso father, a mixed race lawyer decides to exact revenge by building his own criminal empire and destroying his father's.
With respect, no. I won't read your synopsis - that's not how loglines work. If your logline doesn't work, that's as far as it goes. The person you're selling to says "not interested." If they think the logline works crazy well, on the other hand, then they might want to read the synopsis. What we'rRead more
With respect, no. I won’t read your synopsis – that’s not how loglines work. If your logline doesn’t work, that’s as far as it goes. The person you’re selling to says “not interested.”
If they think the logline works crazy well, on the other hand, then they might want to read the synopsis.
What we’re able to identify here is that instead of me and the other people commenting seeking more information because your logline caught our collective imagination, we’re actually noticing gaps in logic or problems with the stakes of your story. These need to be corrected, and inserted into the logline, and THEN if it sounds great, I’ll spend the time reading your synopsis. But I won’t do it before.
See lessWhen a volcanic eruption grounds all flights, a desperate racing driver must evade highway patrolmen to transport his dying fianc? heart transplant.
Okay, fine - so call him a professional racer. "When all flights are grounded by a volcanic eruption, a professional racer must evades a vindictive highway patrol officer to transport his dying fiance's replacement heart to her surgeon half a state away." I really feel like including an idea of distRead more
Okay, fine – so call him a professional racer.
“When all flights are grounded by a volcanic eruption, a professional racer must evades a vindictive highway patrol officer to transport his dying fiance’s replacement heart to her surgeon half a state away.”
I really feel like including an idea of distance – to make us feel like it’s even more difficult, almost impossible – gives it a little bit of a bump. But other than that, like I said, if someone told me about this movie, I’d want to see it. For sure. Great timeclock, stakes are primal, and I can see in my mind’s eye at least ONE of the chases as they race through a town as the volcano blows its top. You can even picture the poster …
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