30 Second Exercise- think of a terrible pitch and share it with us for a few laughs. I'll start... "After being knocked unconscious by a fallen cell tower, an estranged professional bowler begins fighting crime as she can hear every conversation."
Screenwriting : That's a terrible idea! by Craig Parsons
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A creepy middle aged former game designer is sucked into the vortex of a black hole after a lightning strike and becomes a global internet virus.
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Love this idea! Here goes: An aging card designer suffers a car crash, waking from a coma to realising he is in a world of the cards he created.
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Harvey: you could have animation fun with that one. An "Alice In Wonderland" kind of world
A deaf woman becomes lovers with an aquatic monster in a government laboratory and helps it escape.( The Shape of Water)
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For: "Stage32 logline contest: "That's NOT a Logline, so it must be a Movie."
(look it up people It really does....-not- exist.)
My unofficial - but very sucky - entries:
"When a screenwriter writes out a logline contest in which the very worst logline gets made into a Major Movie, every screenwriter starts writing the badest of bad loglines, hoping their idea becomes a movie." --- A Major-Sucky-Movie (A.K.A "Look honey, I just destroyed Hollywood")
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"Spielberg’s and Tarantino’s internet bet: be the first that writes a killer logline under twenty words that gets Uwe Boll’s approval or star in his next disaster(es) movie." -- Oops mum, I Buried the Lead!
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A group of somewhat intelligent babies are enlisted in the army, assigned to rescue an adult hostage in uncharted territory only to find a much more childish crybaby than them!
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A single barnacle decides that life of the move is too much. He shuns the expectations of most and attaches to a rock instead of a boat. He then finds out the rock he attached to was really the remains of his ancestors. They too had decided to remain sedentary.
A man goes about his day working at his job which he hates. Then one day, an opportunity presents himself to follow his dreams and he doesn't take it and lives out the rest of his life working at a job he hates.
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A filmmaker shoots an entire movie only to find out he forgot to press "record."
A 17-year-old uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.
- The Logline for Run Hide Fight