![]() Strengthen your synopsis by ensuring that the actions, motivations, and events that occur at the pivotal points are the best they can be. Improve your logline by making it more unique. Specifically, consider if your setup and payoff are sharp and unique enough? Are there enough twists and surprises to hold our attention? Is the mislead and reveal as surprising and fitting as it can be?įocusing on the pivotal scenes allows you to target your improvements where they count the most. ![]() Search for scenes that seem weak, flat, or uninteresting, then strengthen them. When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth-the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. How captivating is your introduction to the ordinary world or the inciting incident? Do we know what the story is about by the first third of Act I? How surprising is the first turning point at the end of Act I? Does your protagonist weigh the pros and cons of continuing his struggle at the mid-point? Does his struggle take a turn for the worse at the second turning point towards the end of Act II? How strong is the crisis leading to the final climax? How rewarding is the resolution? Consider whether you can improve on any of the events, actions, and motivations that occur, especially at the major pivotal points: Next, run through the basic structure of your story. Loglines have been used for many years in Hollywood as a tool to help producers sort through a multitude of scripts in deciding which films to create and which ones to throw away. The quality of a story is reflected in the quality of its logline and synopsis.Īsk yourself: Does your logline contain an effective set-up and pay-off? If not, seek to improve it. What is a logline A logline is a one or two sentence summary of your screenplay that conveys the premise but also adds an emotional aspect that hooks the reader. LOGLINE MOVIE TITLES ( IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER ): Guardians of the Galaxy, The Godfather, Se7en, Point Break, Star Wars, Die Hard, Chinatown, The Matrix. ![]() You’ve finally written that logline for your story and generated a synopsis from it as a first step to writing your novel or screenplay.īut how do you go about improving both the logline and synopsis, prior to commencing the writing of the actual work itself? How do you write something as good as The Matrix?
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