A Logline is a one-sentence description of your story, whether it is a feature length or a short. The length of the sentence is 27 words. Some will tell you that a Logline can be two sentences in length, but notice it is a Logline, not Loglines.
Each scriptwriter will tell you to not only write a Logline for your story, but also write a Logline for each main character, protagonist(s) or antagonist(s).
Logline Breakdown
1. Describe who the story is about. A lonely widow... A quiet lawman... An Autistic doctor...
2. What is the protagonist/main character's goals? What do they want more than anything in this world you've created?
Luke Skywalker wanted to defeat the Death Star...(?)
Indiana Jones want to find the cup Jesus drank from at the Last Supper...
Brody wanted to keep his resort town safe for families...
3. What is standing in the character's way? What is keeping the protagonist from obtaining his/her goals?
but...
Indian's father was shot
a hungry Great White hunted the resort town beaches for "fresh meat..."
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Non-FictionAnything and everything I found useful from my Scriptwriting class. From learning how to analyze movies and how they and how they are set up, to learning how to write an actual script
