JAWright
04-21-2006, 05:03 AM
Everyone on every message board having to do with screenwriting asks the same question - how do I write this, is it any good and does it work?
Maybe I shouldn't be sharing, seeing as how I'm a writer myself, but this always bothers me.
Listen - a logline serves the purpose of grabbing someone's interest and giving a basic rundown of what your story involves. However, stories involve the same thing - 3 acts, climax, characters, conflict and so on, so don't include anything that isn't original in your logline.
Including something along the lines of someone facing a conflict or problem without it being an "original" problem is going to go in the trash faster than it took to read.
And please, look at other films and screenplays. Racial conflicts are extremely overdone and no one is looking for them, unless there is an original spin on things. Murder mysteries with serial killers need a new genre in general and any agent willing to look at a screenplay based on a logline is going to need to see something they haven't seen before - that is the job of the writer - that is the purpose of a logline.
JAWright
Maybe I shouldn't be sharing, seeing as how I'm a writer myself, but this always bothers me.
Listen - a logline serves the purpose of grabbing someone's interest and giving a basic rundown of what your story involves. However, stories involve the same thing - 3 acts, climax, characters, conflict and so on, so don't include anything that isn't original in your logline.
Including something along the lines of someone facing a conflict or problem without it being an "original" problem is going to go in the trash faster than it took to read.
And please, look at other films and screenplays. Racial conflicts are extremely overdone and no one is looking for them, unless there is an original spin on things. Murder mysteries with serial killers need a new genre in general and any agent willing to look at a screenplay based on a logline is going to need to see something they haven't seen before - that is the job of the writer - that is the purpose of a logline.
JAWright