Wiploc
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Just read Save the Cat again. It wants me to do logline exercises: What is the movie (or book) about? Who is in it?
Basically, a logline is the words from the movie poster.
The Hangover: "Some guys just can't handle Vegas."
Titanic: "Nothing on earth could come between them."
I forget, maybe Alien: "In space, no one can hear you scream."
I'm doing research for this post and discovering that many posters don't have loglines.
So, think of it as an elevator pitch: You're writing a movie that will be perfect for Brad Pitt. You get on an elevator, and who should step in with you but Brad Pitt. He pushes the button for the next floor. You have just seconds to describe your movie well enough that he wants to be in it.
Describe your movie in one or two sentences.
Which brings me to the example that inspired this thread. This could be the logline from a movie you are quite familiar with:
"An orphan gets religion so he can work vengeance on evildoers. His spirit guide commits suicide right in front of him, and then keeps taunting him from beyond the grave, saying, "Use the force, Luke."
The actual logline from the Star Wars poster was, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away."
Anyway, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to provide a brief and humorously unexpected description of a familiar book or movie.
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Basically, a logline is the words from the movie poster.
The Hangover: "Some guys just can't handle Vegas."
Titanic: "Nothing on earth could come between them."
I forget, maybe Alien: "In space, no one can hear you scream."
I'm doing research for this post and discovering that many posters don't have loglines.
So, think of it as an elevator pitch: You're writing a movie that will be perfect for Brad Pitt. You get on an elevator, and who should step in with you but Brad Pitt. He pushes the button for the next floor. You have just seconds to describe your movie well enough that he wants to be in it.
Describe your movie in one or two sentences.
Which brings me to the example that inspired this thread. This could be the logline from a movie you are quite familiar with:
"An orphan gets religion so he can work vengeance on evildoers. His spirit guide commits suicide right in front of him, and then keeps taunting him from beyond the grave, saying, "Use the force, Luke."
The actual logline from the Star Wars poster was, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away."
Anyway, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to provide a brief and humorously unexpected description of a familiar book or movie.
This message will self-destruct in five seconds.
