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View Aaron Mendelsohn’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Aaron is the Director of the Oversight and Investigations Division at the New York City…
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- What’s Your Logline?
- What’s at Stake?
- What’s The Central Idea?
- How Are You Honoring and Subverting Your Genre?
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Even if your idea is complex, summarizing it in a logline forces you to distill it to its simplest form. “A lot of times you’ll find that you’ve got this rambling logline and that maybe you’ve got too much going on, your story’s too complex, or it just needs to be simplified,” Mendelsohn said. A good logline covers not just the genre but the best a...
“I learned this one the hard way, where I’ve written a whole script, turned it in to my agent, and my agent said, ‘No, it’s really … it’s great. But there’s nothing at stake in the story.’ And I’m like, ‘Ah, you’re right,’” Mendelsohn said. What does the central character or the world at large have to lose if this person doesn’t answer the call to ...
This is your story’s theme or thesis—and the question often addressed by a critical test at the end of your story. In When Harry Met Sally… (1989), the central idea was whether men and women could be friends without a sexual relationship getting in the way, a setup that puts the main characters’ friendship at stake. Be specific, and think of where ...
Your audience—even if it’s just readers, agents, and industry pros at first—has certain expectations for different genres. “They’re going to be looking for both things that honor the genre, those wonderful tropes and scares and laughs … but they’re also probably even more critically going to be looking for ways that you’re going to upend those genr...
Learn from screenwriter and WGA executive Aaron Mendelsohn how to ask and answer 11 questions that build solid dramatic stories. Find out what a logline, a character's desire, a story's stakes, and a central idea are and how to use them.
Aaron Mendelsohn is a screen and television writer who has worked on Air Bud, 12 Dates of Christmas, and Esme & Roy. He is also a producer, actor, and a former secretary-treasurer of the Writers Guild of America West.
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“Aaron Mendelsohn’s approach to storytelling is both pragmatic and insightful. He’ll notice things you may not have noticed, offer ideas you may not have thought of, and your script (or treatment, or idea) will benefit from the precision of his thought process and his years of experience.”
Aaron Mendelsohn. Writer: Air Bud. Aaron grew up in Anchorage, Alaska and Chevy Chase, Maryland and graduated from UCLA with a Screenwriting Degree. He produced special edition laser discs for the Criterion Collection before working full-time as a screen and television writer in Los Angeles.
- September 19, 1966
Aaron Mendelsohn has been a professional writer for over 30 years. Best known for co-creating and co-writing Disney’s AIR BUD family film franchise, he has worked in all aspects of film, television and digital and recently served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Writers Guild of America West.
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Sep 23, 2016 · Aaron Mendelsohn is a working, produced screenwriter, a professor of screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University, and an elected officer and lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America West who has worked consistently in all formats and genres for over 20 years.
