![]() ![]() ![]() “Audience and cost.” “A built-in sense of who it’s for and what it’s going to cost.”.You can probably guess the story’s duration (a single night? A weekend?) from it. ![]() “A compelling mental picture.” You can see the story, what might happen.“Isn’t it ironic?” Something unexpected or intriguing.The are four components a good logline should have: You need to be able to describe what the movie is about very briefly, one sentence. Snyder refers to all the characters as “he”, “dude” and “guys”… I’ve just stuck with that. This summary is my notes covering the main points, in case they’re useful or interesting to anyone else. The book doesn’t cover the details of writing a script, like structuring individual scenes, writing convincing characters, writing decent dialogue, etc, but is concerned with structuring the movie… all the stuff you may want to nail down before typing the first words. I had plenty of “Oh, of course, they do all do that” moments. Most Hollywood movies follow similar paths and it’s interesting to have that path spelled out. I assume the many other books about writing movies cover similar points but this seemed well done and useful. I recently read Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting That You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder (on Amazon UK and US) and it was a good read. ![]()
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