The 3 Essential Elements
of a Great Logline
Loglines are challenging to craft but important for communicating your story’s central idea. Here are three quick lessons on what they should contain.
Here’s what you’ll find inside:
The 3 Essential Elements to creating a logline for a screenplay
The 8 central problems at the center of a strong idea
How to ensure your story challenge is big enough that people care if it gets resolved by the end of the story
How to use negative stakes to build intensity throughout your story
How to keep the dramatic situation growing in the eyes of your reader
50 “modifiers” to add to the 6 basic genres to make your story more engaging and memorable
BONUS: 10 real life examples (written by me) of good and bad versions of loglines for 10 popular films
BONUS: Downloadable Workbook with lessons and prompts
Hey! My name is Erik Bork…
I’m a screenwriter best known for my work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon, for which I won two Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards as part of the producing team, with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.
An engaging logline is the first step in getting people want to read more.
A lot of writers struggle with how to “compress” their story into this very short form.
But it’s really not about compression. It’s about knowing what to focus on, and making sure your story premise contains key elements at its core.
Find out what those are and how to communicate them in this 3-part minicourse.
