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With the experience I have had in writing features, and I'm still down the learning curve on this one, I do agree with the advice of having a clear logline before you start. I think it's a helpful guide.
I certainly wouldn't start a feature now if I didn't feel the logline was clear, and interesting. You can then change as you go along, but too often I have tried to force a story and failed.
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So, I've been doing a bit of research on this topic lately and ran across something that tickled my fancy.
There's about a dozen or so experts that use the Wizard of Oz as the perfect log line. e.g:
After a twister transports a lonely Kansas farm girl to a magical land, she sets out on a dangerous journey to find a wizard with the power to send her home.
One blogger/frustrated writer apparently got sick of experts using this example and wrote his wown for the Wizard. e.g.,
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl murders the first person she meets. In order to get home, she teams up with three strangers to kill again.
Yeah I've seen that examples as well Dave... I like the fact that both loglines are likely to get a producer to read the script... though if they read the second one I think they'd be surprised with the script submitted!
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