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Logline

Meaning in film & television, with examples

nounCommon term

In film & television, logline means: A very brief summary of a script or project that presents the main character, central conflict, and overall hook.

In Turkish: kısa konu özeti

How it is used

Common in pitching, development, and festival catalogs. A logline is shorter and more focused than a synopsis or treatment.

Example sentences

  1. The producer liked the script, but she said the logline was too vague to explain why the detective breaks the case.

    Here, logline means the one- or two-sentence pitch summary used to show the project's dramatic core clearly.

  2. Before the market meeting, we rewrote the logline to emphasize the mother-daughter conflict rather than the travel setting.

    In this example, the logline is a strategic summary shaped to highlight the story element most likely to attract interest.

Common collocations

  • write a logline
  • strong logline
  • one-sentence logline
  • logline for a screenplay
  • screenplayThe written plan of a film in a standard format, with scene headings, descriptions of action, character names and dialogue.
  • scriptThe written text of a film, TV show or play, with the dialogue, the action and the scene descriptions that the cast and crew follow.

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