#LOGLINE FILM SERIAL#

#LOGLINE FILM SERIAL#

Remember: the story we’re talking about here is about two serial killers going mano y mano. Yep, points for being succinct! But this logline tells the reader of the logline nothing about the story. When a man knocks on the door of another man, it’s a situation of do-or-die. For example, using our serial killer short we mentioned above: The Not-Nearly-Enough-Information type of bad logline is one where the writer opts for maximum brevity (yay!), at the expense of actual, you know, information about the story (booooo!). The first type of bad logline is what I like to call… The Not-Nearly-Enough Information Bad Logline And that salesman/serial killer happens to knock on the door of another serial killer. And it’s about a serial killer who’s a door-to-door salesman. Let’s say the story we’re writing a logline for is a short. To illustrate, let’s throw out a premise and write a few bad loglines for it. We’ll go a bit more into that later, but first let’s dive into what a logline shouldn’t be, and the way I see it, there are four bad logline types that fit that particular bill. In answering those questions, some of us screenwriter hacks prefer to toe that Wikipedia line above, in all its quotidian plainness, and that, frankly, is perfectly fine.īut for me, I want the logline to do one simple thing: give me a reason to read the screenplay. Yeah, yeah, but what’s the purpose of a logline? What’s a logline supposed to do? Wikipedia’s illustrious hive mind defines it like so:Ī brief (usually one-sentence) summary …that states the central conflict of the story, often providing both a synopsis of the story’s plot and an emotional “hook” to stimulate interest. What is a logline supposed to do, really?

Logline film