Just to review, your homework for the week is:
- Read your hand-outs, especially the loglines.
- Rewrite and post your 5 movie loglines and 1 of your own original idea to the blog.
- Watch a feature-length film and write "coverage" of it.
Remember to adhere to the format specified in class.
Read the blog post on loglines and follow the directions. It will help you, I promise:)
Have a great week!
Mariah
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Jose C. Rodriguez Jr.
August 16, 2008
Hw week 5: Loglines
1. The Crow
A black clothed, spectre like man returns from the dead to avenge the deaths of he and his fiance on a group of criminals.
2. Live Free or Die Hard
A middle-aged New York experienced detective decides to stop a group of cyber terrorists with a plot to take over America’s digital infrastructure.
3. Mortal Kombat: The Movie
Three complete, martial arts strangers face many mystic warriors in a martial arts tournament that will result the fate of the world.
4. Desperado
A vigilante musician sets off to kill the drug dealers that corrupt the streets of his native Mexico.
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
An adventurous archeologist fights off Nazi occultists to retrieve the mythical Ark of the Covenant.
6. Valle de la Rosa (Valley of the Rose)
A reluctant and prosperous teenage adult becomes influenced in the art of drug trafficking becoming the competition of a Mexican drug cartel boss, his father.
Steve O’Brien
8-18-08
Week 5 Loglines
~Back to the Future~
A teenage slacker is sent to the past and gets help from his crazy scientist friend to get back to the future!
~Daddy Day Care~
Two fun loving fathers lose their job and decide to open up a day care to spend more time with their children and to make ends meet.
~Iron man~
A cocky billionaire inventor is captured and forced to make destructive weapons but gets a different outlook on his life after nearly escaping.
~Crank~
A professional hit man wakes up to find that he has only an hour to live and must stay alive long enough to take revenge.
~The Sandlot~
A fun loving youth makes friends with the kids around the neighborhood and learns how to play baseball.
~Pendant of the Ages~
A stubborn son overhears that a precious pendant was pick pocketed from his mother and sets out to get back what is rightfully theirs.
Zoolander
A dim-witted male model of the year tries to hold onto his title while a collective of evil clothing designers brainwashes him into becoming an assassin to save the fashion world.
I Am Legend
A determined and very intelligent military doctor, the sole survivor in New York City tries to find a cure for the mutated virus that has devastated the earth’s population and turned humans into mutated monsters that take over the city at night fall.
Munich
A loyal and committed Israeli operative leads a squad of assassins to avenge the brutal slaying of their countrymen at the 1972 Olympics.
Into The Wild
A disillusioned college grad leaves his life and identity behind to take a soul searching adventure to the Alaskan wilderness.
Bless the Beast and the Children
A group of teenage misfits sneak away from summer camp on a quest to save a herd of buffalo from the slaughter.
The long Road Home
A middle aged suburban couple takes their rebellious teenage daughter on a trip to India to teach her that there is more to life than texting and shopping malls.
Manuel Velazquez
8-20-08
HW Week 5
Logline Rewrites
Fun with Dick and Jane
A hard working couple turns to a life of crime after a corrupt corporation plunges them into bankruptcy.
Be Kind Rewind
After accidentally erasing all of the tapes in their video store, two wily friends decide to re shoot every movie themselves in order to keep the customers satisfied.
Who framed Roger Rabbit
When a cartoon is accused of real world murder, he looks to a cartoon-hating detective to help him prove his innocence.
Apocalypse Now
A down and out captain takes on a mission to kill an ex Green beret who has gone insane and has created his own civilization deep in Cambodia.
Saving Private Ryan
A group of war hardened soldiers embark on a mission to save their comrade, who was dropped behind enemy lines.
Death is a good business
Three clumsy owners of a funeral home in an old town start to kill people and create funerals in order to keep their business alive.
An ancient war keeps two kingdoms in peril, dividing one royal family apart, in order to gain control of their country.(Forbidden Power)
A Young Woman gives into her deepest fears and torments, by giving her body away to other men, and is rescued by an unsuspecting farmer, who tries to better her ways as a person.(Black Snake Moan.)
A Woman journalist enters a war stricken part of Africa, only to find herself in the midst of the war herself, in an attempt to change the world, through her views, by receiving help from a young man, and helping an African man, who had lost his family due to the war.(Blood Diamond.)
As a birthday wish, a young Zebra wishes to run free in the wild, which soon lands his friends in jeopardy, when he decides to leave the comforts of the zoo and they go out looking for him.
(Madagascar.)
An older man who is a collector of sorts, gives his nephew and his family a house that has many secrets hidden within that the naked eye cant see, except for a younger medium, who helps them discover the houses true secret. (13 Ghosts)
A disagreement between two young girls, leads them to find out, that they have a lot more in common than they could have imagined, being twin sisters, who decide to switch places.(The Parent Trap)
Psyrad is Angy Nylund, I forgot to put my name in it.
Do The Right Thing
The eccentric and outspoken African American pizza delivery man living and working in a Brooklyn, NY community, not only gets scorched by the heat of the day but the realities of racism which still exist on his block.
Training Day
A young naive rookie cops first day working under a ruthless decorated cop is suppose to be his fast track to a promotion, but he soon realizes he’s caught up in a web of police corruption and lies.
Undisputed
When a brash speaking volatile heavyweight boxing champion becomes imprisoned, he challenges a quiet but well respected prison boxing champ for the right to be known as undisputed.
Notebook
Visits from a kind hearted elderly man reciting stories to a woman he befriends at a assisted living facility, suddenly triggers a wave of emotions that take them both on an incredible ride down memory lane.
Paid In Full
A young shy kid from the ghetto of NY sees the drug trade as a route to a better life, and may eventually suffer the consequence of this dangerous lifestyle.
Can I help you
She’s a single, sassy and sophisticated call center representative, who thinks she’s in love until an act of betrayal causes her to defend her reputation.
Driving Lessons
An awkward, poetic young man takes on a summer job for an eccentric older actress.
The Holiday
A confident, successful producer from LA and a shy, submissive writer from London decide to exchange lives during winter holidays to escape the men who made their lives a misery.
Thin Blue Line
A successful good natured man’s fate gets intertwined with a troubled criminal teen when a police officer is shot.
Premonition
A loving, inquisitive mother and wife can’t tell if she is dreaming or awake when she is told her husband is dead one day only to wake the next day with him alive and well.
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
An intelligent man, skilled at puzzle solving, must follow hidden clues in various government locations in order to prove a story about his great great grandfather.
The Cardinal
An intelligent and inquisitive young woman pursues a cardinal that her sickly older sister and guardian is hiding from her.
DeJuan Henderson
Ms. Lichtenstern
DF1101: Digital Filmmaking
loglines HW Week four
Aug 21, 2008
Homework week 4 mid-term
Halloween 2008
A young child living in broken home, murders some family members sentencing him to life in a mental institution where he grows up and becomes a legendary psychopathic killer.
Menace II Society
A teenage black male graduate lives the grim reality of inner city life growing up Southern California in the 90’s.
The Bucket List
After finding out they only have a certain amount of time to live, two Elderly men embark on a nationwide adventure to rediscover themselves.
Wanted
A young man, depressed by his below average life, is chosen by a secret society of assassins to avenge the death of his long lost father, only to find out the situation isn’t all that it seems.
The Incredible Hulk 2008
After a freakish life altering accident, a lonely scientist searches for cure to rid himself of the uncontrollable, genetically enhanced beast within him.
Have a Good One
An average Joe, unemployed, aspiring musician, tricked into a challenge that could cost him his soul.
Grease
Set in the 1950’s, a foreign girl next door attending her new high school and a tough greaser become an unlikely couple when they fall in love..
Mean Girls
A wholesome teenage girl soon discovers her dark side after befriending the popular Plastics, a group of girls that rule the school.
The Notebook
Ever since his wife who is usually a stubborn and loving woman began suffering from Alzheimer’s in her later years, the sometimes arrogant and rough around the edges husband has read their story to her with hopes that if only for a moment she will remember the deep love that they shared.
Just Friends
Shy nerd turned Hollywood playboy encounters his best-friend a naïve former high school cheerleader when he returns to his hometown and it sends him on a mission to get out of the friend zone he’s been stuck in for ten years.
Flashdance
A gentle young woman shows her rough edges as she struggles between her life as a welder and exotic dancer while falling in love and pursuing her dream of performing ballet.
Forever Love
A young timid woman struggles with her attraction to a beautiful hollywood actress while they defy all that is against them to defend their love.
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