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Loglines: the portable litmus test for your script

3/15/2014

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I love student participation in class, especially when it comes to creating and refining something. This week we examined loglines, one from each student for his or her script.

Bruce Snyder's book Save the Cat offers a simple construction pattern to follow when building a logline. I was taught to work off my script's theme, a good practice. But the logline is more concrete, tangible. Similar to a thesis statement in an exposition paper. It's a single sentence - two, if necessary, but in the words of Walter White/Heisenberg, "Tread lightly"- that contains: the Who and what the who Wants, with implied conflict. Remember: only one sentence, this makes the logline easy to memorize and makes you and, thus, want to take it with you. Like a fine piece of luggage.

Our class had loglines that traveled from talking extraterrestrial cats, to corrupt cops, to long-distance lovers, to immigrant gravediggers, to Russian Jewish folklore.

In the end, they were all toting some respectable loglines.

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Children of Men

3/2/2014

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And the Oscar goes to... Alfonso Cuaron. Congrats to Alfonso Cuaron for winning the 2014 Oscar for best Directing on his film Gravity. How fitting that our podcast for Children of Men, also directed by Alfonso Cuaron, was posted this week on Snobby Movie Reviews. Click here to listen to our thoughts on an earlier Cuaron masterpiece.

Our favorite podcast yet. Mark Botts, Isaiah Mouw, and Ben Bronsink cannot slobber over Children of Men enough. Find out what every single symbol is in the film, and why Mark doesn’t consider it a masterpiece.
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