Loglines

Monday 8th February seminar

In today's seminar we learnt about loglines which are a short and brief description of a story. 

Features loglines typically include:

• between 20 and 30 words
• the protagonist
• the inciting incident 
• their main goal
• something to raise the stakes 

Within my group we decided to try and write a logline for the film Knives Out (2019), this is what we came up with:

After the suspicious death of crime novelist Harlen Thrombey is announced, his family and associates are thrown into a game of who-dunnit led by infamous detective Benoit Blank

After googling the original we found it was pretty similar: 

When famed auhor Harlen Thrombey is found with a slit throat the day after his birthday, Detective Benoit Blanc is on the case. With the only possible suspects being Thrombey's own family, and the amount of evidence low, everything points to a suicide

Afterwards we were challenged to write a logline for our own story idea, this is what I came up with:

When lonely village postman Ted starts receiving anonymous love letters he goes on a clumsy adventure to find his secret admirer

From the group feedback the most complimented part was the use of the adjective 'clumsy' as it gave a hint at the type of adventure and a USP to the romcom story, something that has been done many times before.