In this card, identify the protagonist or hero of your screenplay. Maria, a Colombian teenager beset by poverty and pregnancy, travels to the United States as a drug mule and hopes for a better life. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, tries to help one of his troubled patients, a young boy named Cole, who believes he sees dead people. The logline also explains the stakes involved and gives the audience a reason to care. A logline describes the protagonist and identifies his or her goals and the obstacles to those goals. It’s usually 25 to 50 words in one or two lines. The logline is a short description of your screenplay. Use one side of the card for your own notes and the other to complete the exercise. Complete the cards in the order that makes the most sense to you.
While I’ve presented these cards in a certain numerical order, you don’t have to follow them in sequence.
You are going to create 40 scene cards and 10 summary cards. It’s cheap (you can buy these for under $1), it’s easy (all you need is a pen) and it’s portable (wrap a rubber band around them and you can write anywhere). In this exercise, you’re going to take a stack of 50 normal-sized index cards and plan an entire screenplay. This is especially true when it comes to structuring your screenplay. While I’m a big fan of story development software such as Power Structure and John Truby’s Blockbuster, there are times when simple low-tech solutions work just as well. But have movies become noticeably better?
Computers have long replaced typewriters, and screenwriting software like Final Draft has eliminated formatting mistakes. It may not seem like golfers and screenwriters have much in common, but technology has changed the way both groups play their respective games. The irony is that despite space-age advances in golf technology, average golf scores over the last 20 years have remained static. If you’ve broken a few putters over your knee (also like me), you’re probably not surprised to learn that golfers spend over $3 billion a year attempting to better their game. If you’re anything like me, you occasionally ruin an otherwise wonderful weekend with a round of golf.
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