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Free Movie Ideas's avatar

Great piece. As someone who has written over three thousand, it still can be a real challenge when you don’t start off your script with one https://www.instagram.com/freemovieideas

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Lauren Greenwood's avatar

Damn! I'm sure that's some kind of Guinness World Record! :)

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Memoirs of a Mad Scientist's avatar

"A mad scientist discovers a corpse on their storm-tossed mid-ocean research vessel and must prove their own innocence and stop the killer before the storm ends and officials arrive to impound the ship, crew, and Earth-saving inventions."

Great post! Thanks for the advice!

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Lauren Greenwood's avatar

Thanks so much for reading. The stakes are sky-high in this logline! It definitely makes me want to see the final film.

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Ros Barber's avatar

This is fantastically useful, Lauren. clearly, a lot of work involved, but then if you want to get a film made, a lot of work is definitely worth it. Your rewrite of the Stranger Than Fiction log line is brilliant!

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Lauren Greenwood's avatar

Thanks so much for reading, Ros! I really appreciate your words.

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Bill Gullo's avatar

Wow impressive to go so deep on this topic!

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Lauren Greenwood's avatar

Thanks, Bill. Writing TV movies made it necessary to perfect this process (cause I have 4 weeks to write the first draft!)

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WomenWarriors's avatar

1. The example of two versions of 'The Lion King' = brilliant. ✔

2. One of the best loglines ever was/is for 'Army Of Darkness' = 'Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.'

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Lauren Greenwood's avatar

1. Thanks so much!

2. Now that makes me wanna drop everything and watch Ash kick some ash :D

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drea.m.r.76's avatar

I've never heard of all this before, but I thought I'd give it a go. (Don't worry, I won't give up my day job. 😂) Can you guess what the last one's for?

The sun falling heavy toward dusk, a screenwriter must save her contemporaries from career suicide before it's too late.

As dawn's amber glow rises, a screenwriter completely changes how movies are made.

Risking everything for his last hope of realizing his big break, an impassioned stage director casts well-meaning misfits to tell the tall tale of their (un)conventional town's founding.

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Lauren Greenwood's avatar

Writing loglines can actually be such a fun exercise as long as it's just for fun :D

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Showbizing Strategies's avatar

There's a lot of hard-won knowledge in this article. Thanks for sharing it.

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Lauren Greenwood's avatar

Thanks so much for reading! Hard-won is the right adjective ;D

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