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Every time I try and write a logline, it makes my idea look completely boring (holding onto the hope that it isn't the actual idea) and I wondered if anyone had any tips or ideas into the perfect logline formula ? I use the book "Save The Cat" by Blake Snyder as my guiding light with screenwriting, so I have a basic idea but if something different works for you, please share it..
When [inciting incident], [main character] must [premise] or else [catastrophe].
It doesn't work for every story but it'll at least get you in the ballpark.
STC makes me foam at the mouth a little bit, but I do agree with one point he makes about loglines: if you can't make your story interesting in a logline, there's a good chance it's just not interesting. And if the interesting logline doesn't accurately represent the script, the logline is telling you the script you should be writing.
Full disclosure: I am not very good at loglines myself.
Last edited by Dorkman (2012-12-18 06:49:06)
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Wait.
Challenge.
Can you take a movie you find devastatingly boring and write a good logline for it?
Bilbo Baggins leaves his comfortable life in the Shire to face trolls, goblins, giant wolves and orcs on an epic journey to retrieve the Dwarves' gold from a fearsome dragon.
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After years in seclusion an aging Bruce Wayne must become Batman once more in order to combat the greatest menace Gotham City has ever known: a dude with a thing on his face. *
*Last part still needs some work
"Just as Rod makes his first million dollar deal and reconnects with a long lost love, he must now escape his sleepy coastal town when it comes under attack from ravenous rotating .jpeg's of Birds."
Last edited by Eddie (2012-12-18 17:45:01)
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An imprisoned vampire awakens to discover hundreds of years have passed. He begins a quest to restore his families fortune, wreak vengeance on the witch who captured him, and lay to rest the spirit of his long-lost lover.
Last edited by Dave (2012-12-18 23:04:22)
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When [the Allied Forces learn of Hitler's plans to watch a movie], [a team of Nazi scalpers in occupied France] must [kill him] or else [catastrophe].
When [the Allied Forces learn of Hitler's plans to watch a movie], [a team of Nazi scalpers in occupied France] must [kill him] or else [catastrophe].
See? That's the movie he should have made.
When intrepid young reporter Tintin buys a model boat, he must... uh... yeah, I can't do this one actually
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Hey, you leave Tintin out of this!
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