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I think how you phrase the logline will depend a lot on how the screenplay is composed, as there seem to be a couple of distinct stories, each with a distinct main character, where the antagonist of the first story becomes the anti-hero of the second.

Yes, but if you don't give them anything intriguing, why should they be intrigued? A 'victim' could be a victim of schoolyard name calling or murder or violent sexual abuse or anything in between. Many of those possibilities contain interesting potential for stories, but without priming, the...

I think you either need to clarify what the spirit is the victim of, or leave out the victimhood altogether. Tormented by a spirit in his wife's womb, Daniel does the unthinkable. But can that save him - or anyone else? or Tormented by the spirit of his victim in his wife's womb, [murderer...

Ah, got you. That makes sense.

I don't get it. How was it improvised when you had all the props ready for this specific scenario? Or do you just have a pack of beef under a cloth as a standard improv prop? :D Genuine question, by the way, as I have no real idea about improv. It was funny though :) "I think someone was...

Hi Peggy :) I might be interested to work with you on a script - it's a particular interest of mine. Are you talking about a short or a feature? Also, you appear to be just down the road from me (I'm a CV postcode too...), which might come in useful :)

But then surely it should be Charlie Kelly :hmm: :)

Got you. My mistake, I thought you were talking generally, and I agree with you that specific scenario would be entirely different.

I don't think murder would apply to an obviously armed person approaching a policeman and refusing to comply with requests to drop a projectile weapon. Obviously the policeman would be the subject of an investigation, but I don't think any court/internal affairs investigation would consider...

There are a few sites carrying a lot of downloadable subtitles that you can drag and drop onto VLC or similar while a movie's playing. Probably the most comprehensive tool for searching is www.subtitleseeker.com. Obviously it depends on what movies users have uploaded for, so East of Shanghai...

Fair enough as you're making it yourself, but if you're asking people to read it then a bit of action description to show how the dialogue connects to what's going on in the scene is a courtesy if nothing else - we don't have access to the visuals in your head. For example: This is...

Sam Mendes won an Oscar for his first movie... On the script extract: far too wordy (and that's as someone who likes wordy scripts :)) A few notes on realism: UK police have to tell a suspect what they're being arrested for before informing them of their right to remain silent etc. Also, it's...

Seinfeld is famously a show about nothing (although I never really bought that conceit). A modern incarnation of that is It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. But a number of network (not generally cable) sitcoms are extremely preachy in this way. One of my favourite current sitcoms, Modern...

Yes, that makes a lot of sense to me, although I'm not so sure about lessons and teaching - that would seem to be a blueprint for the blandest of US network sitcoms. I would define it more as overarching 'identity' though, with individual episodes riffing on an aspect of that identity. When...

BBC Writers' Room does accept unsolicited scripts, but not with a view to getting them made. Instead they seek to use original scripts to discover writing talent that might then serve an apprenticeship of sorts on various BBC soaps etc, and then maybe your own project one day. It's more about...

Not much help, but I found it funny seeing this thread the day after watching something where a bar with imminent health code inspections had to rush to hide some live chickens :) More practically, surely you just need to mock up a bar setting? I doubt any active business is going to risk their...

Immutable law of the Internet #73: If you correct someone's spelling/punctuation/grammar in a forum post, you are guaranteed to make an error while doing os :)

For example... if there's an event in a character's past that has some bearing on his/her current actions... a theatrical movie might have the budget to show the event in a period setting or a different location. A TV series would be able to tease at the possibilities of what the event might be...

The sort of stilted, unnatural dialogue that often occurs in a bad made-for-TV movie. Lots of on-the-nose stuff and exposition that you need when you're trying to get people interested in a one-off piece of drama on the small screen, and don't have enough runtime to set up, reveal and develop...

IMO The first one sounds like it could be interesting. The second sounds quite a run-of-the-mill idea. The others are a little too vague to get excited about as loglines.