A time manager stuck on an island with all the time in the world (Cast Away). A Detroit cop investigating a case in Beverly Hills ( Beverly Hills Cop). A king who can’t speak to his people ( The King’s Speech). “The loglines that read the best are the ones with some sort of irony in them, where the character and the situation are at odds with one another. A police chief with a phobia for open water must go into the water to do battle.
One additional thing that the above JAWS logline has is irony. (That article also references Schechter.) Williams is the author of the excellent book The Moral Premise. Levenberg doesn’t mention where he found that JAWS logline, but when I Googled it took me to the blog post Writing Good Log Lines written by Stanley D. Levenberg goes on to quote Jeffrey Schechter ( My Story Can Beat Up Your Story) who passes on four key questions he learned from Michael Roberts when he tried to pitch an idea to the Disney Executive:
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Podcast Writing Great Loglines(Check out the full podcast as Levenberg goes on to talk about the importance of turning the main character’s world upside down.) And it identifies the life and death stakes.” It identifies the opponent which is the shark. Why? Because he’s battling a gigantic shark….I like the way it identifies the goal-which is to stop the shark-it identifies the problem which is the shark. You want to identify who’s our hero and tell the logline from their point of view just like you’re telling the movie from their point of view….The second thing, ‘with a phobia for open water.’ That’s great because we’re going to be putting him in the water. Look at how it does these things A police chief, so we have our hero, we know whose eyes we’re seeing the movie from. I think this is the perfect logline, but it’s also for a nearly perfect movie. ‘A police chief, with a phobia for open water, battles a gigantic shark with an appetite for swimmers and boat captains, in spite of a greedy town council who demands that the beach stay open. I recommend you give his podcast a listen. Levenberg is the author of The Starter Screenplay and in the communications I’ve had with him he’s always come across as a guy who understands what makes movies and screenplays work. Recently I was listening to Adam Levenberg’s podcast Official Screenwriting and he hit on the ever popular topic of writing loglines.
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ScriptShadow Special – How To Craft A Damn Good Logline It gives us the main character, the main character’s goal, and the central conflict in the story (what’s preventing them from getting that goal).” “A good logline usually covers three bases.
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The Construction of a Logline (Get this free PDF.) “A logline conveys the dramatic story of a screenplay in the most abbreviated manner possible.”
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