Log Line

Log Line

A logline is a one-sentence summary of your script. It's the short blurb in TV guides that tells you what a movie is about and helps you decide if you're interested in seeing it. It's the grabber that excites your interest. A logline always poses a question in the audience's mind to help hook them into watching

Log lines are very important as it is a short piece of information on the content of the program so that the audience will know what they will be watching. It relates greatly to blurbs on the back of books. The blurb does not give the story away but gives an insight of what to expect including what genre it may be so that the audience will know whether it it is right for them.

How does a logline help you sell your screenplay?

When your screenplay is ready to sell, your query letter to agents, producers, and directors  must contain a logline. Sometimes, they don't read past the logline. So, if you don't grab  them with your logline, you won't have any chance of getting them to read your entire  screenplay. The logline is literally a sentence or two long so it has to present the general  aspect of the film with a bit of its storyline very briefly.