#8 Writing Your Screen Story

Loglines

a. Choose 5 Genres.
b. For each genre, write 2 loglines suitable for a screenplay.
You should have total of 10 loglines.

Genre: Comedy
1. After his career in journalism is sabotaged by a co-worker, Scott Streets is forced to reach a new low: working at a pizza place. With the help of his misfit, new co-workers, he decides revenge is the only option.
2.A dying business man asks his two best friends to join him in a final whirlwind search for love, frequent-flyer miles and free expo swag by attending each other's business conferences.

Genre: Romance
1. A total womanizer transforms his female best friend from clinger to player, finds himself attracted to his new creation but has taught her a little too well.
2. After suffering a traumatic brain injury in a car accident John lost his memory, his girlfriend Jen had to act on everything repeatedly daily to regain his trust and memory. 

Genre: Thriller
1. When murder strikes the oldest and wealthiest family in Upstate NY, the prime suspect's confession reveals a stirring cross section of social class, corruption, and deceit, all of which explode across headlines, resulting in the last public hanging in the region's history circa 1827.
2. An overly-caring therapist is pulled into a deadly psychological war when a manipulative but needy client confidentially reveals details of actual murders before they happen.

Genre: Action
1. A lonely, tormented physicist hijacks the world's most advanced particle collider traveling back in time to save the mother he lost in the 9/11 attacks, but attempts to warn her alert the hijackers to his presence and threaten the lives of millions unborn.
2. Twenty years after the zombie apocalypse wipes out life as they know it, a pair of survivors learns they are not alone, and must fix their issues to protect their warrior children on a dangerous journey by boat to save a woman who may be the key to reviving humanity.

Genre: Drama

1. Two gay men from San Francisco move to a small Wisconsin town to open a sushi dance club.

2. An Internet billionaire returns to his hometown to deliver the keynote speech at his old high school's graduation.

#7 Logline, Synopsis, Storyline, 3 Act

Case Study

From Dusk Till Dawn

Key Character(s): George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis
Logline: Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results.

3 Act Structure
ACT 1: Two criminals who are brothers decides to leave Texas after a murder case. They pulled up in a bar called the titty sister to meet their handler in the morning. 
ACT 2: The bar they went in is actually a vampire nest. Both the brothers has to fight the crooks in the bar which are vampires, and if the Gecko brothers can survive from dusk until dawn, the "crooks" will let em' go.
ACT 3: It is their only obstacle left in their way before reaching Mexico. The climax is when the gecko brothers engaged in combat with the other people in the bar that reveals themselves as vampires.

Predator

Key Character(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger
Logline: A rescue team was sent to help out in an urban jungle only to realised that the other guerrilla forces weren't the only enemies around.

3 Act Structure
ACT 1: The team was sent to rescue the hostages and not attack anyone. They arrived in the jungle and have to be mentally prepared as nothing that lives is safe.
ACT 2: Despite being led by the ultimate weapon, they are also faced by the ultimate enemy who slowly murders the team 1 by 1. The enemy identifies its enemies by their body heat allowing it to slowly
ACT 3: Despite having the ability of murdering almost everyone in the team, the predator did not manage to kill Arnold Schwarzenegger as he successfully bombs the place and runs away from the area into safety.

Scream

Key Character(s): Casey Becker
Logline: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.

3 Act Structure

ACT 1: The film opens with young Casey Becker receiving phone calls from an unidentified caller. At first it seems as if he has gotten a wrong number, but it soon becomes clear he is toying with her, and his voice gets more and more threatening. Casey becomes frightened when she realizes her caller can see her.
ACT 2: Everyone becomes a suspect cause nobody knows for sure who is the actual person behind the mask and rules and precaution were laid out in order to find out the true identity of the killer.
ACT 3: Safety rules are showed as precautions to take in order for people to not encounter the serial killer with different people who portray different personalities

Sleepless in Seattle

Key Character(s): Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan
Logline: A young boy calls up the radio station hoping to find a suitable candidate for his father.

3 Act Structure
ACT 1: A little young boy decides to call up the radio station in order to find a suitable candidate for his sleepless father from seattle. He calls in because his dad is sleepless and he hopes to find the suitable woman who will be there to keep him company. Tom Hanks is then tasked to explain more about his wife over the radio show. Hundreds of women from the country hears the program and writes to sam telling him how touched are they by his story.
ACT 2: Meg Ryan, a Baltimore reporter tunes in to the radio channel and feels that he is rather special despite being married. She impulsively writes in suggesting that both of them should meet up knowing that her fantasies about someone she has not met before.
ACT 3: Tom Hanks's good friend assures him that he will like her as to what she plans to do for him. His son picks up a letter and told his dad that he loves the specific letter that Meg Ryan wrote in.

Cruel Intentions

Key Character(s): Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon

Logline: Ryan makes a pact with his step sister Sarah that if he fails to lure Reese into before summer is over, Kathryn get his car and if he succeeds, he gets Kathryn. 

3 Act Structure

ACT 1: Sarah tells Ryan of how she can easily can anyone and makes a pact with her step brother to make Reese loses her virginity however he must not fall in love with her if not he has to give her car to her.
ACT 2: Ryan almost succeeds in the motive but soon finds that he is actually falling in love with the virgin. 
ACT 3: Sarah starts to pick on a fight on the fact that Ryan actually fell for sebastian is falling for Reese and confronts him when he lost the bet and she gave herself up to him but rejected her instead.

Urban Legend

Key Character(s): Paul Gardner, Natalie Simon, Rebecca Gayheart.

Logline: A college student suspects a series of bizarre deaths are connected to certain urban legends.

3 Act Structure

ACT 1: The lecturer decided to talk about urban legend about mixing pop rocks and soda that will burn your stomach and intestines first. However it did not happen and it gave 1 of his friends a shock instead. Being discouraged that it was not true, they decided to find another urban legend that is true.
ACT 2. They decided to pick on the one whereby there is a guy with an axe who is always at the backseat of a girl. However murder cases started happening frequently that causes the girls to be worried and start investigating into the murder cases.
ACT 3: They are unhappy that someone is using urban legends to scare them and with the serial killer still chasing after them into the school compound.

Home Alone

Key Character(s): Kevin Mcallister, The Mcallister family, The Wet Bandits
Logline: When the Mcallister family left on their christmas vacation, they forgotten their youngest child and left him at home alone.

3 Act Structure

ACT 1: The Mcallister family were late for their flight and all of them were rushing towards the airport. They were lucky to have made it on time for their flight but forgotten about their youngest child who was still sleeping when they left for the plane.
ACT 2: There was a police case that is being reported about the wet bandits who break into people's home and to add on to the family being away on the holiday, the Mcallister's home were being targeted by them.
ACT 3: Kevin was a very independent child for his age and so he guarded his house by laying traps for the wet bandits who were trying with every measure they could to break into his house.

Bulletproof Monk

Key Character(s): Chow Yun Fatt, Sean William Scott, Jaime King
Logline: Chow Yun Fatt's a monk whose duty has been to protect a powerful ancient scroll and while finding the scroll's next guardian, the monk's quest brought him to New York City only to find out in disbelief that his successor is an average new yorker played by Sean William Scott.

3 Act Structure

ACT 1: Chow Yun Fatt is a guardian of a sacred scroll that can be found in the temple. He is needed to find a successor and the quest brought him to a America which he is not familiar at all. He met his successor and is surprised that he is nothing like him at all.
ACT 2: Sean William Scott is very discouraged and does not believe that he is the successor. He taunts Chow Yun Fatt about his kungfu gimmicks. Chow Yun Fatt has a hard time trying to persuade and convince that Sean William Scott is the one.
ACT 3: Sean William Scott finally is convinced and works hand in hand with Chow Yun Fatt along with Jaime King as they fight obstacles along the way.

Meet Joe Black

Key Character(s): Bratt Pitt as Joe Black and his guide being portrayed by Anthony Hopkins and his daughter by Claire Forlani.

Logline: A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form as a young man as he wants to learn about life on earth

ACT 1:Mr Parrish, a media tycoon is about to celebrate his 65th birthday and one morning he is being contacted by the inevitable; Death itself enters his home and his life that is personified in a mans body as Joe Black

ACT 2: Joe Black caught feelings with Mr Parrish's daughter being portrayed as Claire Forlani unintentionally. He intends to take Clarie Forlani as his own but got in a disagreement with Mr Parrish as he came into his life and is having an affair with his daughter.

ACT 3: He has persuade Mr Parrish that its true love with his daughter and Joe Black gets to choose if he were to carry on to be with his daughter or leave her instead.

Scent of a Woman

Key Character(s): Chris O'donnel as Charlie Simms, Al Pacino as Frank Slade

Logline: A prep school student in need of money agrees to babysit a blindman however it is not as easy as it seems.

3 Act Structure

Act 1: Charlie Simms a prep school student found a weekend job opportunity in the school bulletin that requires a babysitter and he took the address of the note and decides to head down to the house. 

Act 2: People around him told him that the person he is going to babysit is a Lieutenant Colonel and he is a great guy. However it turned out otherwise and Frank Slade is a very sarcastic and a frustrated person.

Act 3: Frank Slade and Charlie got along together despite all their differences and having the fact that the colonel is a blind person and Charlie being very patient.

My Cousin Vinny

Key Character(s): Ralph Macchio as William, Mitchell Whitfield as Stan, Joe Pesci as Vincent Laguardia "Vinny" Gambini and Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito

Logline: Two friends William and Stanley are framed for murder and are thrown behind bars and only one man who get them out of jail is William's cousin Vinny.

3 Act Structure

ACT 1: William and Stan are friends from college however they are being framed for murder. When they need someone to bail them out, William called his cousin Vinny to bail them out.

ACT 2: Vinny is a lawyer but however the case of bailing his cousin and his friend out is his first actual case and its their last chance.

ACT 3: He managed to bail his cousin and his friend out as Lisa decides to testify as witness for their case.

 While You Were Sleeping

Key Character(s): Sandra Bullock as Lucy, Bill Pulman as Jack Callaghan 

Logline: Loneliness was a way of life for Lucy until she met peter and fate stepped in and she became part of his life, his family and eventually his brother.

3 Act Structure

ACT 1: Lucy has always felt that it was okay to be lonely even tho she has a huge crush on a fellow commuter named Peter. One day he accidentally fell off the ledge train platform and fell into the train tracks. Having no other choice, Lucy decides to head down to the train track and quickly pulled him aside as he went into a coma after the fall.

ACT 2: She played along as Peter's fiance and tricked his family into believing in. However Jack comes along into the story and asked her how come her brother did not ever mention about her before. He bombarded her with questions with regards to her brother and does not believe her that she is his brother's type.

ACT 3: Peter waking up from his coma and does remembers everyone except for lucy to her happiness that she can finally be with his brother as she fell for him when Peter was in his coma and she does not have to worry anymore about how is she going to break the news to his family.

#6 Story design 2

Case story 1

Click here for video (Ministry of Silly Walks)

1. Monty Python - Ministry of Silly Walks

- Characters tell stories - Their walking demonstration

- Theme, concept, key message, issues - A very vintage feel to it, concept of walking like a clown, each walks tell a different story scenario, the longer they walk the funnier it gets to reach their destination. 

- Story content  
-Genre - Comedy  
-Stereotype / cliches - gentlemen from the 70s 
- Making "abnormal" look normal - everyone walks like clown
-Premise - It's their choice of walking like a clown
-Communicating key message(s) - The law aren't meant to be abide all the time  . script - 

- Situations / scenarios - Putey, explaining that he has a silly walk he wishes to develop with grant money, demonstrates his walk which, to Cleese, is not particularly silly.

- Location / sets / atmosphere - England (London) 

- Colours / look and feel / treatment - Vintage saturated feel

- Costumes / hair / make up (styling) - comb-back hairstyle and suits

- Props / items - Briefcase, hats, umbrella 

- Language / accent - English / French

- performance (cast and crew) - John Cleese, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland and Terry Jones

- visual effects / CG - None

- music & sound effects - Uplifting, carnival themed music

Click here for video (Spam)

2. Monty Python- Spam

-Characters tell stories - The way how much they love/hate spam
- Theme, concept, key message, issues - Vintage, Concept of how much they love/hate spam,  issues were how the funny walks made the characters took longer time to get to their destination. 
- Story content
  . genre - Humour
  . stereotype / cliches - Viking loves Spam. 
  . making "abnormal" look normal - Everyone loves Spam
  . premise, - Every meal should have Spam at least
  . communicating key message(s), - You will be judged for trying to be different. 
  . script - 

- Situations / scenarios - Mrs Bun is not a fan of Spam and has an argument with the waitress. The group of vikings interrupted the conversation by singing loudly "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam." They are ordered to shut up by the irate waitress several times only to resume singing more and more loudly.   

- Location / sets / atmosphere - Greasy Spoon Cafe

- Colours / look and feel / treatment - Dull colours, 1970 Vintage feel. 

- Costumes / hair / make up (styling) - Elderly dressing.

- Props / items - Viking outfits, 

- Language / accent - English / Hungarian

- Performance (cast and crew) - Terry Jones as The Waitress, Eric Idle as Mr. Bun and Graham Chapman as Mrs. Bun. John Cleese as the Hungarian and Michael Palin as the Historian. A group of vikings.
- Visual effects / CG - Vintage 

- Music & sound effects - Spam song

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3. Monty Python - Olympics

- Characters tell stories - Unconventional way of how they run they compete in the Olympics
- Theme, concept, key message, issues - Vintage, Concept of how Olympics are supposed to run in a unconventional way , Expect the unexpected, The way of how competitors are competing are unforeseen. 

- Story content
  . Genre - Comedy
  . Stereotype / cliches - Competitors are supposed to fight for the top position
  . making "abnormal" look normal - The events are not in a proper structured manner
  . premise - Not everything has to be in an orderly manner
  . communicating key message - Not everything done in an orderly manner or a straight direction
  . script - 

- Situations / scenarios - In a filmed section, audience watch the series of competitions.

• The 100m for Runners with no sense of direction.
• The 1500m for the Deaf. They don't move because they can't hear the starting gun.
• The 200m Freestyle for Non-Swimmers. At the starting whittle, they all jump into the water and immediately sink without surfacing.
• The Marathon for incontinence withe extremely weak bladders.
• The 3000m for Steeplechase for people who think they're chickens.
• The high jump that briefly features one of the Pythons who took a run-up and then jumps ridiculously high over a wall and onto a high balcony.

 - Location / sets / atmosphere - Stadium track, Swimming pool

- Colours / look and feel / treatment - Vintage television colors

- Costumes / hair / make up (styling) - Sports attire

- Props / items - Guns, Goggles. 

- Language / accent - English / Hungarian

- Performance (cast and crew) -
- Visual effects / CG - None

- Music & sound effects - Comedic music

TVC (Assorted Ads)

- characters tell stories - Ms Johnson feeling uncomfortable with the amount ketchup

- theme, concept, key message, issues - Vintage, Concept of how a bit of ketchup can cause the entire planet to disappear , A little bit is a lot, Her mistake cause a miscommunication between planet earth and mars.

- story content

  . genre - Sci-fi/Humour

 . stereotype / cliches - Spilling the coffee leads to alerting the Aliens.

  . making "abnormal" look normal - There are Aliens.

  . premise, - Small mistakes can lead to dire consequences. 

  . communicating key message(s), Be careful in whatever you do

  . script - 

- situations / scenarios - Ms Johnson accidentally spilled a coffee while activating the communicator machine and how her boss scolded her in a moment of anger.

 - location / sets / atmosphere - Earth / Outer space 

- colours / look and feel / treatment - Black and white, Mysterious

- costumes / hair / make up (styling) - Secretary outfit and a bun.

- props / items - Communicator machine, Spaceship 

- language / accent - English

- performance (cast and crew) - Ms Johnson, Her boss

- visual effects / CG - Spaceship destroying earth

- music & sound effects - Alien spaceship traveling and Horror Shock effect

TVC (Assorted Ads)

- characters tell stories - The emotion of fear that they portray

- story content

  . genre - Action/Comedy

 . stereotype / cliches - Hurricane will destroy their entire home

  . making "abnormal" look normal - The hurricane destroying their house only to fix it back 

  . premise, - With Thailand Insurance, People don't have to worry.

  . communicating key message(s), You don't have to worry if you purchase the right insurance.

  . script - 

- situations / scenarios - A group of friends decided to pull 1 of their other friend as he watches the hurricane breaking apart his house in dismay 

 - location / sets / atmosphere - Outside his house 

- colours / look and feel / treatment - Dark and dull colours / Gloomy 

- costumes / hair / make up (styling) - Secretary outfit and a bun.

- props / items - House 

- language / accent - Thai

- performance (cast and crew) - A group of friends 

- visual effects / CG - The hurricane tearing the house apart

- music & sound effects - The group of friends yelling 

TVC (Assorted Ads)

- characters tell stories - A german coast guard being new

- story content

  . genre - Comedy

 . stereotype / cliches - A boat/ship reporting that they are sinking and require immediate help

  . making "abnormal" look normal - The operator isn't fluent in international language.

  . premise, - Miscommunication caused some the person who report the problem his life. 

  . communicating key message(s), Miscommunication can cause serious issues.

  . script - 

- situations / scenarios - A boat/ship reporting that they are sinking only to be misunderstood as they are thinking. 

 - location / sets / atmosphere - Coast guard room

- colours / look and feel / treatment - Dark bluelish

- costumes / hair / make up (styling) - Coast guard uniform, properly groomed

- props / items - Communicator machine

- language / accent - German / English

- performance (cast and crew) - Two colleagues

- visual effects / CG - Nil

- music & sound effects - 

TVC (Assorted Ads)

- characters tell stories - Negro arriving at a shaolin academy 

- story content

  . genre - Comedy

 . stereotype / cliches - Negro is just visiting the shaolin academy to know more 

  . making "abnormal" look normal - Negro learning kungfu in the academy

  . premise, - Negro exchanging cultural values 

  . communicating key message(s), People can learn different things from different culture

  . script - 

- situations / scenarios - A negro decided to visit a shaolin academy and ends up learning a few moves 

- location / sets / atmosphere - China / Shaolin Academy / Temple 

- colours / look and feel / treatment - 

- costumes / hair / make up (styling) - Shaolin outfit / 

- props / items - Communicator machine

- language / accent - Chinese

- performance (cast and crew) - Shaolin master, Negro and monk disciples. 

- visual effects / CG - Nil

- music & sound effects - Chinese oriental erhu music. 

TVC (Assorted Ads)

- characters tell stories - Throwing/Destroying whatever that is near them 

- story content

  . genre - Comedy

 . stereotype / cliches - Shoppers are inside GAP to shop

  . making "abnormal" look normal - Everyone is throwing pile of clothes/mannequin around them

  . premise, - Excuse them for the renovation that they are undergoing. 

  . communicating key message(s), Pardon people for the inconvenience caused for something better in the near future.

  . script - 

- situations / scenarios - A man threw a pile of apparels down and from there everyone in the shop decided to follow him. 

- location / sets / atmosphere - GAP store in the city area

- colours / look and feel / treatment - Bright/Dull colours

- costumes / hair / make up (styling) - Dressed in casual/working class people

- props / items - Communicator machine

- language / accent - English

- performance (cast and crew) - Sales assistant, shoppers and passerbys  

- visual effects / CG - Vehicles crashing in to the store

- music & sound effects - Chaotic music and loud sound effects of shoppers destroying the store.

Case story 2

 The Six Million Dollar Man

• Young teenagers and Adults who are into action movies.
• The six million dollar man. He is a bionic man which was made to be fit.
• He is a astronaut that died in a plane crash and was made to be revived into a bionic person.

Austin Powers

• All ages
• Mike Myers, he is a superstar and is wanted by plenty
• He is a famous celebrity that is being chased by paparazzi and fan girls. 

 Demolition Man

• Adults 
• Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes
• Wesley Snipes is a crime lord and Sylvester Stallone is a police man who are both frozen in the year 1996 and Awaken in 2032.

Charlie's Angels - Pilot Opening Sequence

• Teenagers and Adults
• Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Jaclyn Smith and Danny Doyle. Kate is an adventurous person, Farrah is into sports, Jaclyn is into photography and is very fashionable, Danny is in charge of the girls.
• 3 girls who went to the same police academy.

Charlie's Angel - Full Throttle

• Teenagers and Adults
• Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu and Bernie Mac. Cameron Diaz is into high risk sports as well as dancing as well, Drew Barrymore is the rough and tougher of the group, Lucy Liu is the innocent 1 of the group and Bernie Mac is the boss in charge of the 3 girls. 
• 3 girls working for Charlie decides to fight 1 who was a former agent that was under him. 

 The Simpson

• All ages
• Homer works with pride in a nuclear power plant run with more regard for profit that safety. His wife is Marge, a kind of supermom. They have three kids: Bart, an underachiever ("and proud of it"), Lisa (who is as serious and responsible as Bart isn't), and Maggie who is just a baby.
• Animated primetime series that follows the exploits of a hapless and semi-dysfunctional nuclear family named the Simpsons, who live in the fictional town of Springfield, whose various inhabitants add to the comedy, angst, satire and parody of this series.

Courage the Cowardly Dog

• Children 
• Courage the Cowardly Dog, Muriel and Eustace. Courage despite being a coward, he knows its his responsibilities to save his owners from supernatural beings. Muriel is his loving owner and treats him well with care and concern. Eustace does not like courage and is bias towards him.
• Courage is found by the dumps by Muriel and decides to bring him home and bring him up as her pet. Muriel lives in the middle of nowhere and the area she lives in has tons of unexpected supernatural activity going on all the time, its up to Courage to save the family

Johnny Bravo

Children

Johnny Bravo, Momma Bravo, Little Lucy

Johnny Bravo is a very vain and flirty man, so therefore this show is about his adventure of coaxing girls, or anything that he can get attention of. 

Dexter's Lab

• Children
• Dexter and Dee Dee. Dexter is a kid scientist who always in his secret lab doing experiments and Dee Dee which is his sister who likes dancing and disturbing his brother, by ruining his experiment. 
• Dexter has a laboratory and plans to take over the world one day, but is always intruded by his sister. 

Powerpuff Girls

• Children 
• The Powerpuff Girls, Blossom is the leader and is very righteous, Buttercup is more rough and loves fighting, Bubbles is sweet and very juvenile.
• Their father Professor Utonium accidentally added chemical x into a mixture of ingredients that produced the 3 little girls and they are here to fight evil and protect townsville. 

The Simpsons

• All ages
• Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie Simpson. Homer Simpson is lazy and stubborn, Marge Simpson is a very caring mother who loves her children dearly, Bart Simpson is very playful yet naughty person, Lisa is musically inclined and daydreams a lot, Maggie is just a baby. 
• Asian slaves are forced to colour a painting of the Simpsons before passing it to a child who will dip it in a biohazard liquid. In other parts of the cave, Simpsons soft toys are made up of animal's fur, Animals such as Panda, Unicorn are being used for their production measures.
• Homer works with pride in a nuclear power plant run with more regard for profit that safety. His wife is Marge, a kind of supermom. They have three kids: Bart, an underachiever ("and proud of it"), Lisa (who is as serious and responsible as Bart isn't), and Maggie who is just a baby.
• Animated primetime series that follows the exploits of a hapless and semi-dysfunctional nuclear family named the Simpsons, who live in the fictional town of Springfield, whose various inhabitants add to the comedy, angst, satire and parody of this series.