This funky flouncing comedy franchise project is expanding with award-winning flair, this is the newest logline for the upcoming Episode 2, 15-minute version,
"Super Turbo Jet Boats - Fountain Of Youth"
"Five powerboat-loving film-school slackers from LA collide with nefarious supermodels and risk expensive camera gear surfing dangerous breaks, leveraging their Costa Rica boondoggle with jungle recon to capture world-class production values and save their final chance for graduation."
It's a long logline obviously that functions as a short synopsis for the Film Freeway Project page listing,
I know that preferably loglines go 25 words or less, this is beyond that into the realm of promotional copy and goes into more liberal interpretation.
It's an extension of the main story which will continue to describe the eventual feature film, what I like about this one is the clarity, adventure tone, high stakes, specificity of the language and powerful imagery, sense of robust energy and urgency, I think it's my favorite one so far!
And "surfing dangerous breaks" gives us both a literal and metaphorical duality that feels accurate and evocative with tantalizing anticipation.
I think it captures the goofy campy kitschy tone of the comedy adventure and that's the flavor that gets the poster and promo materials in alignment with tone and genre to bring any industry reader or audience into a sense of knowing what to expect from a film.
#superturbojetboats
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I like your logline, Daniel Stuelpnagel. It kept my attention. I try to keep my loglines to 35 words or less/around 35 words. I also think a writer's style plays a part in writing loglines.
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Maurice Vaughan absolutely, thanks! And I recognize the lightweight comedy tone and genre does confer a level of irreverent playfulness that would not land with other genres.
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You're welcome, Daniel Stuelpnagel. Writers can use humor in Comedy loglines, dread in Horror loglines, mystery in Mystery loglines (not too much), etc.