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[writingdose]

THE ONLY SHIP THAT IS BAD IS CENSORSHIP

[calderafleurs]

actually? iamb

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[calderafleurs]

Does anyone believe in the theory that this video is actually set to Africa by TOTO? You can see Nathan Fielder clearly intone “The wild dogs were out barking tonight… but you aren’t even gonna know about that.” as he ¯\_(ツ)_/¯s up to the basal plating for the slowed-down Shakira joke about Sedona - that Houndmouth had landed these beats with longer teeth in the sand. It’s a cool temporal pitchfork about overplay as a concept.

[calderafleurs]

[veracity24]

WRITING LOG-LINES & PREMISES

Okay, let’s say you're a struggling screenwriter, and one day you happen to get on an elevator headed to an interview or what have you and standing there in the elevator next to you is Steven Spielberg. He’s standing right there by himself, and he smiles at you, says ‘hi, how's it going?’ And it just so happens that you've just finished writing the tenth draft of the best screenplay you're ever written, and you've been thinking about how you're going to shop it round. So you say to him: “Hi. You’re Steven Speilberg, right?” “That would be me.” he laughs. “Wow. Duel is one of my favourite films." “Thanks.” “I’m a screenwriter, too.” “Oh?” he laughs. “Yep.” “It seems like just about everyone's a screenwriter these days," he says. “Oh, I’m more than a screenwriter. I’m a good screenwriter.” “Oh?” And you stand there for a quiet moment, wishing you hadn't said that. And to cover your embarrassment you blurt outl: “I know you’re really busy and in a rush, but can I send you my latest “ "Look, I’m terribly busy at the moment, and I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of free time to read scripts. Sorry.” “But it’s really good!” “Yeah? Well what’s it about? I get out on the twenty-seventh floor….” The elevator has just passed the 20th floor. So, what are you going to tell him? This is where the log-line proves useful. What’s your movie about? You must be ready to answer that question. This is the main purpose of your log-line… To make someone give a shit within 7 floors. And if you have something like the following, YOU WIN: "A lonely young small-town girl is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home." READ MORE about log-lines and premises