2019 Black List Word Cloud Logline Challenge: Winners!

Some inventive loglines based on key words from 2019 Black List scripts.

The challenge started with a word cloud based on the loglines for the 2019 Black List scripts, all 66 of them:

You can see the entire set of 2019 Black List loglines for the 66 scripts here.

You can read all the entries in this year’s challenge here.

The prizes:

• 5 Semifinal Winners: 1 free Craft class I will be teaching next year through Screenwriting Master Class. Each winner gets their choice of one class.
• 3 Finalist Winners: Free 1 script read + 1 month script hosting via the Black List website + 1 free Craft class.
• 1 Grand Prize winner: Free 2 script reads + 2 months script hosting via the Black List website + 2 free Craft classes.

Infused by the holiday spirit and inspired by each writer’s creativity, I am expanding the slate to 10 Semifinal Winners:

Joan Albright
Maura Campbell
Mark Daley
Rafael Diez
Priya Gopal
Mike Grimm
Cat J
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Jesse Tripp
Aaron Yeung

Semifinal winners receive one free Craft class I will be teaching in 2019.

The 2019 Black List Word Cloud Logline Challenge finalist winners are:

Alan Donahue
Ioannis “Lichachron” Panagiotidis
Debbie Simmons

The Finalists win 1 free script read + 1 free month script hosting via the Black List website, plus 1 free Craft class in 2020.

And the Grand Prize Winner is:

Baldric Shyer

While all of the entries demonstrated inventive ways to tie together word cloud words into some semblance of a logline, this one qualifies for Kitchen Sink Award using 48 words in the 2019 Black List Word Cloud:

After a POOR LOCAL MAN and his INTIMATE SISTER SAVE a FROZEN SCRAPPY VIGILANTE with the NAME SOLO from a MOUNTAIN of a CAVE BOSS, the YOUNG apprentice to BEN STRUGGLES to FREE the KILLER of his MOTHER from CORPORATE CORRUPTION and EVENTUALLY RECEIVES COMPASSION due to a PERSONAL CONNECTION and ESCAPES EXECUTION before ALLIED FORCES ARRIVE and RUIN SUPER SECRET SPACE SMART-HOUSE number TWO. BASED on the BEST STORY SET a long TIME AGO, BATTLES AMONGST the ENTIRE WORLD above.

Baldric wins 2 free script reads + 2 free months script hosting via the Black List website, plus 2 free Craft classes I will be teaching in 2020.

Here is the roster of my one-week Craft classes for next year:

January 13: Pixar and the Craft of Storytelling
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January 27: Story Summaries — From Loglines to Beat Sheets
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February 10: Handling Exposition
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February 24: Scene Description Spotlight
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March 9: Character Development Keys
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March 23: Create a Compelling Protagonist
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April 6: Write a Worthy Nemesis
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April 20: Scene-Writing Workshop
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May 4: Dialogue-Writing Workshop
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May 18: The Coen Brothers and the Craft of Storytelling
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Winners, please email me for details: GITSblog at gmail dot com.

Thanks to all for participating. Let’s do this again next year!