Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]
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Logline
//ˈlɒɡ.laɪn//
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Finnish
2 entries- juoniseloste noun (short summary)
- lokiliina noun (line fastened to the log)
French
1 entries- ligne de loch noun (line fastened to the log)
German
1 entries- Logleine noun (line fastened to the log)
Russian
2 entries- лаглинь noun (line fastened to the log)
- логлайн noun (short summary)
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The first step in outlining is to make sure that your logline, that one-or-two- sentence summary of your movie you first created in chapter 2 (“Jump-starting the Screenplay”), is the best that it can be in capturing what your movie is about now.
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Besides the ingenious Pilot knowing the elevation of the Pole in some places of his voyage that he hath passed, by keeping a true, not a dead reckoning of his course in pricking his Card aright, and observing the way with the logge-line, with other currants, will give a very artificiall conjecture of the elevation of the pole in that place where he is, though he sec neither Sunne nor Starres.
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Bring the ship to rights, that is, againe under saile as she was, some use a Log line, and a minute glasse to know what way shee makes, but that is so uncertaine, it is not worth the labour to trie it.
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