Re: Log The Line... LOGLINES
I think that industry professionals simply want to know what the movie is going to be about. Since the overwhelming majority of consist, centrally, of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a goal -- that's sort of just a basic story, then you kind of need that to get just the basic idea of what the story.
Usually, but not always.
All I really have to do is write down these two words -- Daddy Daycare - and any Development executive will immediately get what this story is about.
No antagonist. No protagonist. NO anything, really. But we all get it.
It's going to be about a bunch of hapless dads (fill in whatever groups of comic actors are bankable) trying to care of a bunch of unruly kids and -- mayhem follows.
So, in some broad sense, you can say that the Daddy(s) are the protagonist(s) -- the implied kids are the antagonists, sort of -- and the situation of their running a day care center is the goal -- then sure. It's all sort of there in those two words.
The point is, though, you instaneously know what this movie is about in two words.
So come up with another two words that convey what some story or other is about as succinctly and you too may have the keys to the kingdom -- provided, of course, that you can actually then sit down and write the script based off those two words.
NMS
Originally posted by jonpiper
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I think that industry professionals simply want to know what the movie is going to be about. Since the overwhelming majority of consist, centrally, of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a goal -- that's sort of just a basic story, then you kind of need that to get just the basic idea of what the story.
Usually, but not always.
All I really have to do is write down these two words -- Daddy Daycare - and any Development executive will immediately get what this story is about.
No antagonist. No protagonist. NO anything, really. But we all get it.
It's going to be about a bunch of hapless dads (fill in whatever groups of comic actors are bankable) trying to care of a bunch of unruly kids and -- mayhem follows.
So, in some broad sense, you can say that the Daddy(s) are the protagonist(s) -- the implied kids are the antagonists, sort of -- and the situation of their running a day care center is the goal -- then sure. It's all sort of there in those two words.
The point is, though, you instaneously know what this movie is about in two words.
So come up with another two words that convey what some story or other is about as succinctly and you too may have the keys to the kingdom -- provided, of course, that you can actually then sit down and write the script based off those two words.
NMS
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