2021 Black List Word Cloud Logline Challenge: Winners!

The challenge started with a word cloud based on the loglines for the 2021 Black List scripts, all 73 of them!

You can see the entire set of 2020 Black List loglines for the 73 scripts here.

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

The prizes:

• 5 Semifinal Winners: 1 free Craft class I will be teaching next year through Screenwriting Master Class. See class roster below. 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.

This year, we had not quite as many participants as last year, but still a strong roster of contenders. Seeing as we’ve all been living with God damn pandemic for what seems like forever, I am expanding the slate of Semifinal Winners to everyone who uploaded 2 or more loglines.

Note: This does not include the Finalist Winners and Grand Prize Winners.

The Semifinal Winners are:

David Daniels
KS Derrick
D Jackson
Jaime Kawamoto
Kylie L.
Bianca M
David McGorman
Debra Montague
Cynthia Nwajiobi
Val D. Phillips
Stacey Russell

Semifinal winners receive one free Craft class I will be teaching in 2022.

The 2021 Black List Word Cloud Logline Challenge finalist winners are:

Denise Garcia who wins the Best Maximum Use of Logline Words Award:

WILD HANNAH, the FIRST PARTY COLLEGE WOMAN to ESCAPE a SUPERNATURAL LOVE RELATIONSHIP with MYSTERIOUS WORLD HISTORY THIEF MICHAEL, FINDS HERSELF in the MIDDLE of an EPIC SUMMER FOUR NIGHT RACE THROUGH TIME with the DEADLY HIGH STRANGER. SOON EVERYTHING in LIFE FALLS apart DURING this DANGEROUS ADVENTURE as she’s FORCED to TAKE BACK BAD ART to her FORMER SCHOOL FRIEND --- a FEMALE ASSASSIN with ONLY ONE TRUE LIFE rule- - be EVER honest with EACH OTHER or CHANCE REAL DEATH.

Kevin Long for the Made Me Laugh Award:

MICHAEL RACE, a HIGH-END, DEADLY ASSASSIN, MEETS the MOST PERFECT WOMAN in HISTORY DURING his SUMMER ESCAPE. ONLY ONE problem: before he can MAKE WILD LOVE to her, he's FORCED to sit THROUGH the WORLD's longest TIME-share presentation, given by her FATHER, without committing MURDER.

Josh Barkey for the Kitchen Sink Award:

ONE EPIC SUMMER, while taking classes at NIGHT BACK at his FORMER community COLLEGE, OLD-soul ASSASSIN and HOUSE painter MICHAEL HANNAH MEETS a MYSTERIOUS FEMALE ART THIEF DURING a WILD PARTY and TAKES a CHANCE on a DANGEROUS NEW RELATIONSHIP, only to be shocked when he DISCOVERS after they DATE a WHILE and he FALLS for the WOMAN that the RELATIONSHIP is FORCING him to TAKE a hard look at HIMSELF and how his PAST LOVE LIFE DURING HIS TIME MURDERing people as his JOB (and his imPERFECT FATHER/SON RELATIONSHIP as the ONLY ONE of FOUR children to SURVIVE their MOTHER and FATHER's DEADLY childhood TRAINING) have SET him up to MAKE a lot of REAL BAD decisions BASED on a PAST with too much DEATH and not enough FAMILY - as the RACE is on for these TWO former STRANGERs to FIND a WAY to ESCAPE their HISTORY and SAVE the FIRST attempt BOTH of them have made to get BACK into the ADVENTURE of DATING in the REAL WORLD.BASED on a TRUE story.

The Finalists win 1 free script read + 1 free month script hosting via the Black List website, plus 1 free Craft class in 2022.

And the Grand Prize Winners are…

That’s right, two winners this year. They are…

Raven Parks!

TWO COLLEGE roommates at the SCHOOL of ASSASSINS and ADVENTURE attend their FIRST WILD PARTY that turns DEADLY when they are FORCED to MURDER EACH OTHER after DISCOVERING BOTH FRIENDS want to DATE the same MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.

Nathan Patton!

DURING the SUMMER before COLLEGE, FOUR FORMER BEST FRIENDS DISCOVER a TIME ASSASSIN has targeted their HIGH SCHOOL YEARS, and they MUST TEAM up to MAKE sure their PAST doesn’t become HISTORY.

Nathan and Raven win 2 free script reads + 2 free months script hosting via the Black List website, plus 2 free Craft classes I will be teaching in 2022.

Here is the schedule of the ten Craft classes I will be offering in 2022:

Pixar and the Craft of Storytelling
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Story Summaries — From Loglines to Beat Sheets
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Handling Exposition
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Scene Description Spotlight
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Character Development Keys
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Create a Compelling Protagonist
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Write a Worthy Nemesis
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Scene-Writing Workshop
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Dialogue-Writing Workshop
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The Coen Brothers and the Craft of Storytelling
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NOTE: I am taking a break from teaching at Screenwriting Master Class until July 2022. I won’t be teaching these Craft classes until late August.

Winners, please email me for details and your choice of Craft classes: GITSblog at gmail dot com.

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