Screenplay Logline Advice


by Simon J. Michael

A logline is a one-line catchy way of describing your movie to someone interested in buying your script. Many people assume the logline is a summary of the movie when in actuality the main purpose a logline must serve is to convince someone to take a look at your screenplay. It's basically a one-line pitch for your story.

Blake Snyder, author of Save the Cat, says "The number one thing a good logline must have, the single most important element, is: irony."

Snyder shares this logline as a demonstration of the irony:

A businessman falls in love with a hooker he hires to be his date for the weekend - the logline for "Pretty Woman"

Click here for articles on how to write loglines.

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