The 4th of only, “SEVEN BASIC PLOTS”

“VOYAGE AND RETURN” is a fascinating plot. Just writing this out and thinking about it causes excitement and anticipation. At the core of Voyage and Return is a sense of adventure. This gins up the emotions with a sense of change. And that is always interesting as the horizons of our human experience expand.

A great movie with this plot is….

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Here’s the log-line. “When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.”

OR

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 

Log-line…. To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Remember, whatever your stories plot maybe always apply the screenwriters rules.

– Overall story and concept
– Genre
– Plot
– Characters and characterization
– Story structure
– Four throughlines
– Formatting
– Action lines
– Dialogue
– Pacing
– Tone  
– Production value