Loglines Hero goal high-stakes urgency irony Swiss Army Man Children of Men Her RSS

Loglines Hero goal high-stakes urgency irony Swiss Army Man Children of Men Her -

When sitting down to write a new script, not every screenwriter stops and first writes out the logline, the one or two sentence pitch for their movie, to test their logline. The problem with NOT doing this is you can miss sign-posted problems with your concept. Let’s breakdown why: A great logline has a couple of key factors. We have a hero, they have a goal, that goal is high-stakes and urgent, and there is a central irony to that particular person having that specific goal. It may seem self-evident, but many of the scripts we receive here at ScriptArsenal...

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