The Official Blog of Ike Oden

The Official Blog of Ike Oden
... Who is a writer of sorts.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Made Up Logline Monday #2

Updates:

1. Nearly finished with new draft of slasher film. It's at 140 pages right now. If anything, I've probably made it too big and bloated but that's okay-- God invented editing for a reason. Still, a part of me wants to make the most epic slasher film ever, in the history of slasher films. Sprawling, big, stylish, and character driven, like a Leone western. No one else wants that, it seems, so I will have to balance a tight page number with that sort of scope.

2. I'm thinking about applying online for a position as a script reader. That would be an ace gig.

3. Watched American Graffitti today. What an awesome movie.

4. The Logline...

Title: Late Registration
Logline: A high school student arrives at his new private school late, only to find the campus utterly abandoned. Stranded with night a few hours away, he must explore the labyrinthine corridors of the school to figure out who or what brought him there and why.
Genre: Horror

It's good because the hook is creepy and there's a mystery around it. It's bad because maintaining that level of mystery would be hard as fuck without introducing more characters, which would in turn kill the isolation and tension. Also, none of that "It's all in his head" bullshit. I still feel burned by Identity. Imply it, you goon, don't just explicitly say it! NO ONE WANTS THAT!

Also, I've been listening to a lot of Kanye West lately. Have you noticed?

Powering down....

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