#LOGLINE IN FILM MOVIE#
The tag line is the line put on the poster of the movie to get an audience to buy a ticket. That kind of irony gives a ‘twist’ to the story.ģ. And it’s ironic that bachelors at a bachelor party lose the groom, the man who represents the purpose of the party. It’s ironic that a soldier saves an alien population from his fellow soldiers. It’s ironic that a wealthy businessman, a highly desirable bachelor, falls in love with a hooker.
In a good plot, the ‘who,’ the ‘what happens,’ and the ‘who benefits’ connect, often in an ironic way. It’s easy to see from the examples above that Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy, Avatar is science fiction, and Hangover is a comedy.Ģ. A good log line reveals the genre of your script.
Here are a couple of other things to note about your log line.ġ. Professionals can decide immediately whether or not they want to read your script. You can pitch your movie at a cocktail party or in an elevator without boring your listeners. With these three elements in your log line, any reader can have a pretty good idea of the gist of your story. In Pretty Woman the beneficiary is the hooker the wealthy businessman falls in love with. Our log line has now told us ‘who’ the story is about and ‘what happens.’ Now we learn ‘who benefits.’ Avoid variations on the verb ‘to be’ here (is, was, will be, etc.) because they communicate little or no information. So can inhabiting an alien body, saving friends, and sifting evidence. We can only see what they see and hear what they hear. We don’t hear the character’s thoughts, or smell what they smell, or touch what they touch. In a movie, the story can only be told through what can be seen and heard. Notice that all of these verbs are active and visual. In Hangover our hung-over bachelors sift evidence for clues.
In Avatar our disabled mercenary inhabits an alien body and uses it to save his ‘new’ people from human invaders. In Pretty Woman our wealthy businessman falls in love. Any story that requires a description of many scenes and events to answer this question is a story that isn’t focused on what Aristotle so long ago called a ‘unity of action.’ Next you want to know ‘what happens.’Ī good way to know you have a major problem in your story is to be unable to answer this question in a few words. What led to the hangover? What happened during the hangover? How does it turn out? The answers to those questions form the story: beginning, middle, and end. The entire story rides on this central characteristic. The most important thing we need to know about the ‘who’ in Hangover is that they are hung-over bachelors. This all-important characteristic sets up his actions for the rest of the story.
#LOGLINE IN FILM FULL#
The most important thing to know about the ‘who’ in Avatar is that he’s a disabled mercenary soldier, a man of action who no longer has full use of his body. That’s far more important than his name, how old he is, what kind of business he does, how many ex-wives he has, etc. The most important thing to know about the ‘who’ in Pretty Woman is that he is a wealthy businessman. The most important thing we need to know about ‘who’ the story is about and what their primary role is in the story.
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