Plot, Story and Character Ideas and Prompts
- Luke Ward
- Apr 7, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 9, 2020
Down below are some ideas, prompts and characters to experiment with. Don't worry you can take any of them free of charge!
Full Log-lines:
DRAMA/SUPERNATURAL: Hanging Coffins of Sagrada
A village, as per tradition, travels to the Hanging Coffins of Sagrada to hang their deceased priest's coffin with the rest. This was the priest's final wish; for all his life he believed that being hung in Sagrada would bring his soul closer to heaven. When the procession ends and the villagers are knelt in prayer, the priest's soul suddenly erupts from the coffin in a breath-taking show of light. Before fading into the blue sky, he delivers one final message of love and peace.
DRAMA: Kingdom of the Rabid
An innocent man travels to an abandoned Mediterranean island where he contracts the bubonic plague from a kingdom of rats.
ACTION/DRAMA: Still It Lives
A group of desperate conspirators break into a government complex in the English countryside to discover that it is a prison where the death penalty still exists.
COMEDY: A Summoning
An employee is called to his boss' office one afternoon. As he makes his journey up to the fifth floor where his boss is waiting for him, he asks his friends for information. When he meets the boss, it turns out to nothing worth worrying about.
COMEDY: A Dark Night In London
A burglar is scouting on of London's richest streets when he runs into a patrolling police officer. The officer, who is suspicious, beginnings asking questions, prompting the burglar to have to make up an absurd story.
Prompts:
-A vast slum of worn housing neighboring a lavish, Gothic castle where dark secrets hide.
-An explorer comes across a tall mountain which he begins to climb. Midway through his trek he is captured by an indigenous tribe.
-A lonely, old gravedigger gets accused of murder.
-An attempt on an unknown Senator life triggers confusing, why would someone try to kill an innocent Senator? An investigation raises dark family secrets.
-A famous musician discovers a dead body.
-Write about a famous time in history.
Character Loglines
Craig Smith is in prison for drug dealing and attempted murder. He was once a bad man, a crumbling one too that destroyed everything around him that he loved in one furious avalanche of hate. But as he sits in his cell for days on end now, trapped behind those steel bars and locked away from the world, he has become intent on fixing himself and reuniting with his estranged family and two daughters.
Johnny White once had it all. He was from a rich family; he was a top student at his private school, and he was tall and strong: but then the war came around. Johnny was sent to the trenches of the Western Front to fight, just a couple weeks prior he had been living a life with endless possibilities but now he was living in the mud, surrounded by thousands of men, and sleeping in a bed infested with rats. But the thing he hated most of all was the firing squad; how could soldiers have the guts and the will power to shoot their own friend for his wrong doings, and Johnny had a deep fear of one day having to take a bullet from another soldiers gun. But just a week after arriving, Johnny finds himself with his hands tied behind his back, staring at five of his greatest friends pointing their rifles at him, because he was the next victim of the firing squad.
Emily Underwood had to run away from home one rainy, Sunday night. For years her parents had been abusing her and now that she was old enough, she ran because she had had enough. She planned to make her way across London to her Aunt’s house who would keep her safe. But she finds that the world is a more dangerous, wild place than she was expecting and soon she is being chased by her parents across London. She desperately needs to reach her Aunt’s house before they capture her and bring her back in.
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Hope this helped. Bye for now.
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