Logline

Quick meaning: Logline is a noun meaning (authorship) A very short summary of a script or screenplay.

Meaning

(authorship) A very short summary of a script or screenplay.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) The line fastened to the log, and marked for finding the speed of a vessel.

Example Sentences

Bring the ship to rights, that is, againe under saile as she was, some use a Log line, and a minute glasse to know what way shee makes, but that is so uncertaine, it is not worth the la­bour to trie it.

Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]

The first step in outlining is to make sure that your logline, that one-or-two- sentence summary of your movie you first created in chapter 2 (“Jump-starting the Screenplay”), is the best that it can be in capturing what your movie is about now.

The 120th part of that Mile is 41⅔ feet, and so much is the space betweene the Knots upon the Log-line: So many Knots as the ship runs in half a minute, so many Miles she sayleth in an hour; or so many Leagues, and so many Miles she runneth in a Watch or four hours, called A Watch, because one half of the Ships Company watcheth by turns, and changes every four hours.

Word Forms

• loglines
• logge-line
• log lyne
• logg line
• logg-line
• loggline
• log line
• log-line

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include synopsis, coverline, outline, screenplay, scenario, briefing.

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