I hate pitching scripts. Not that I’ve done it much but generally, I hate it. Even if it’s just down the pub with some mates and we end up talking about that sort of thing. Trying to write catchy and enticing loglines is even worse. Even so, I’m going to pop an entry in to Lucy’s Christmas Logline Competition. Maybe even two.

Being the season to be seasonal, the pitches need to be seasonally themed and Lucy has specified five in particular: A Long Journey, Crackers, A Child Is Born, Confrontations and Revelations, Starlight. All very clever. I’ve decided that, at the very least, I’m going to work on the logline for one of my short films which, as I’ve mentioned before, turned out to be the Nativity story in disguise. I haven’t rewritten it yet on account of spending mucho time-o hacking away at Revelation (which, unsurprisingly, would fit the Confrontation/Revelation theme so might get a logline entry of it’s own).

But I still fucking hate coming up with loglines. At the moment, I’ve got two:

• “A virgin gives birth in a stable with hilarious consequences”
• “Rosemary’s Baby meets H.P. Lovecraft”

Okay, I lied about the first one. She’s not a virgin and the consequences aren’t that hilarious. There’s no stable either. The second one gives more idea of the feel of the film but not the story itself so that wouldn’t be any good.

Guess I’m just going to have to work on it.