Crafts 4-6 precise logline options for documentary projects, calibrated for festival, broadcaster, press, or social contexts. Useful when preparing pitches or refining vague loglines.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
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Crafts 4–6 precise, compelling logline options for any documentary project, ranging from a single sentence to a two-sentence form, each with a different emphasis.
Crafts 4–6 precise, compelling logline options for any documentary project, ranging from a single sentence to a two-sentence form, each with a different emphasis.
Required: A description of your documentary project — the subject, the central story or argument, and the key character(s) or event(s) at the center Optional: Intended broadcaster or festival context; tone of the film (observational, polemical, intimate, cinéma-vérité); what makes this film different from others on the same subject; any existing logline or synopsis you want to improve on
4–6 numbered logline options. Each is labeled with its structural form and intended context (festival, broadcaster, press, social). A one-line annotation follows each, explaining the specific emphasis or trade-off made. Total length: 250–350 words.
Project description: A documentary following a retired forensic accountant who, in her seventies, began investigating financial fraud in rural water utility companies across three states. Over five years, she identified 14 cases of embezzlement affecting small towns. Several cases led to prosecutions. She has no formal legal authority and works entirely alone. The film is observational, following her current investigations. Broadcaster context: Public broadcaster documentary strand, serious but accessible Social/press bio line also needed
The Character-Drive Form (broadcaster pitch) "Working alone and without legal authority, a retired forensic accountant in her seventies has spent five years investigating financial fraud in small-town water systems — and prosecutors keep calling her back." (Emphasis: her agency and the institutional validation paradox. Strong for broadcaster context.)
The Question Form (festival submission) "Who is watching the people who run your water? In three states, the answer has been one retired accountant with a spreadsheet and a conviction that fraud is always findable." (Emphasis: the systemic question behind the personal story.)
The Thematic Form (press release) "A portrait of one woman's conviction that public resources belong to the public — and the five-year investigation that proved her right fourteen times." (Emphasis: the moral argument. Works well in editorial contexts.)
The Compressed Two-Clause Form (broadcaster one-liner) "A retired forensic accountant investigates embezzlement in rural water utilities — from the inside of her own car, with no legal authority, and a 100% prosecution rate." (Emphasis: the productive absurdity of the situation. The "100% prosecution rate" is the hook.)
The Press/Social Bio Line (under 20 words) "One woman. No authority. Fourteen prosecutions. A documentary about what one retired accountant found in America's rural water bills." (Emphasis: punchy; works as a social card caption or press release opening sentence.)
The Festival Long Form (two sentences, under 50 words) "In her seventies, after a career in corporate forensic accounting, Margaret decided the fraud she kept reading about in small-town water utility scandals was findable. Five years, three states, and fourteen cases later, she hasn't been proven wrong." (Emphasis: personal arc and track record. Strong for documentary festivals.)
npx claudepluginhub ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --plugin autopunk-media-skillsCrafts precise one-sentence loglines for feature films or TV pilots, capturing protagonist, inciting incident, conflict, and stakes in under 40 words. Useful for distilling story concepts and preparing pitches.
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