A teenager's life is thrown into chaos when he falls in love with a girl and realises that he must face his past and himself in order to be with her.

Moonless Night

3 reviews

beezeebee Penpusher · 71 pts

Hi Sam. The Logline sounds a bit vague to me. I would like to get a better idea is to who the protagonist is apart form just being a teenager and where the main conflict specifically comes from other than facing his past. Reads more like a movie tagline than a logline. From what logline it doesn't very much sound like it's something we haven't seen dozens of times before, so an original twist on it could really go a long way here I think.

Former member Penpusher · 20 pts

This sounds way too generic! I'm inundated with thoughts of "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," "500 Days of Summer," "Don Jon" and other similar "tail chasing" movies.

Where's the twist, the spice to make it stand apart? Why should anyone care? What life lessons does an audience stand to learn? Do you, as a person, have any life lessons to share? That might justify telling your story. Otherwise, it's just another take on dumb, teenage angst and puppy love that nobody cares about.

Sorry, but it's true!

dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

>>>thrown into chaos

Too general. Needs to be specific. (Isn't the normal state of a teen's life chaos? What's so special, unique, different about this chaos?)

>>he must face his past and himself

The objective goal of a plot (and logline) is forward looking. "He must face is past" is backward looking and "face..himself" is subjective.

As a result of falling in love, what does he want to do/ must do HERE AND NOW and looking and living FORWARD in time and space?

Who/what opposes him?

What's at stake? What does he stand to gain if he succeeds, lose if he fails?