[HN Gopher] How to Write a Logline Producers Won't Pass On
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How to Write a Logline Producers Won't Pass On
Author : lovestaco
Score : 21 points
Date : 2024-01-14 12:55 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| tptacek wrote:
| I like articles like this even though I'll never write a
| screenplay because it's fun to think of ways to apply it to
| ordinary persuasive writing. That said: if the craft of
| screenplay writing interests you, and if you haven't already,
| immediately subscribe to the Scriptnotes podcast, which is Craig
| Mazin (Chernobyl, Last of Us) and John August (Go, Big Fish), for
| like 600 episodes.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Ah _Go_ is one of those movies that got lost in the field in
| 1999; it would have been the top film of the spring in many
| other years, but opening 1 week after _The Matrix_ leaves it
| with few people my age (I was a senior in HS when it came out)
| knowing about it.
| FreakLegion wrote:
| Emphatically seconded. They also have great guests, like Scott
| Frank (recently discussed on HN from a New Yorker article:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38812736). I started
| listening in 2020 and between workouts and long drives have
| made it through every single episode.
| T3OU-736 wrote:
| Hah. I read 'logline' in the context of logging information by a
| running process, and thought the post was about log lines that a
| logging infrastructure would not pass on for some reason.
|
| Been computering too much :)
| yowlingcat wrote:
| Very cool. I wonder how much of this approach is reusable in
| marketing.
| yodon wrote:
| OP's proposed logline for Star Wars would have been a total fail
| in the era when the logline was needed, namely before the film
| was made or known.
|
| >Luke Skywalker, a spirited farm boy, joins rebel forces to save
| Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the
| Empire's Death Star.
|
| This is probably not an article you want to learn logline writing
| from.
| erehweb wrote:
| It seems that this is being used as an example of a lackluster
| logline coming from a generator, though it's not completely
| clear.
|
| ----- TRY USING A LOGLINE GENERATOR Maybe you're stuck for
| ideas, either way, a generator is a cool way to brainstorm, but
| not end up with a final product. A logline generator can give
| direction for a character you want to write about, but any
| generator or formula will leave you with something lackluster.
|
| Star Wars: A New Hope Luke Skywalker, a spirited farm boy,
| joins rebel forces to save Princess Leia from the evil Darth
| Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's Death Star.
| closed wrote:
| Another hint that it's a deliberately lackluster example is
| that it violates a rule given in the article: don't use
| character names.
| nvahalik wrote:
| Is it just me or is there some application here to writing user
| stories?
| snowwrestler wrote:
| Studio Binder is my go-to example when talking about well-run
| inbound content marketing.
|
| They produce long articles that rank well in search for a wide
| variety of popular keywords related to movies and TV. But the
| articles are actually helpful and informative--so much so that
| they also drive organic social traffic (example: this post on
| HN). And each article features a few conversion widgets, but not
| so many where it's hard to read the content.
|
| I know nothing about the ROI and other back-end data for this
| program. It must be working for them, though, because it's been
| going for a while.
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