#Logline example series
Then a cascading series of events unfold, revealing a murderous outcome. The Yawner type of bad logline does exactly what you’d expect to do: it puts you on a morphine drip and lulls you into snoozeville.Ī young, dedicated door-to-door salesman is selling his wares and then happens upon a house where the occupant of the house is not as he seems. Maybe postpone that important business trip and get cozy with loved ones this week. If that’s your best logline, you may as well write instead:Īnd for all you Pisces, there’s change in the air. Like so:Ī door-to-door salesman, who may or may not have a penchant for murder, knocks on the door of someone else who may or may not have a penchant for murder. Then that writer of the logline, seeing you as a metaphorical cat, metaphorically cracks open a can of smelly, delicious metaphorical cat food, then throws the metaphorical can of cat food in the metaphorical trash, never allowing the cat to eat the smelly, delicious metaphorical cat food. Using a pet metaphor here, pun intended, a writer composing the Teaser type of bad logline imagines you, the reader of the bad logline, as a cat.
#Logline example movie
The logline should probably mention the fact that they’re serial killers, instead of referring to the two characters as just “man” and “man.” After all, a movie about two serial killers, well that’s a lot different than a movie about just two boring regular men. 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?
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