Logline

Our teacher told us that now that we have our idea, we need a logline to sell it. The main goal is to capture important elements of our screenplay into a concise one line teaser, so enticing that it hooks the listener into reading the entire script.

I decided to research loglines of multiple movies in order to have a clear sense of what a logline should look like, before I come up with our films logline. From what I observed, logline length usually varies from 25 - 50 words as it describes the movie plot.

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Titanic:

26 words

Two star-crossed lovers fall in love on the maiden voyage of the Titanic and struggle to survive as the doomed ship sinks into the Atlantic Ocean. 

Spencer:

31 words

​During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Little Women:

​30 words

​Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.

Manto:

38 words

​The film follows the most tumultuous years (1946-1950) in the life of one of the world’s greatest and most controversial short story writers, Saadat Hasan Manto, and that of the two countries he inhabits – India and Pakistan.

The help:

41 words

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid’s point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

Looking through these logline, it gave me a sense of clarity and since up till now, we had only come up with our film opening idea and a rough concept, I  thought this was the perfect opportunity to explore what happens further in our film. 

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