{"id":1033,"date":"2015-11-13T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zigzorg.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2015-11-13T10:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:03:02","slug":"save-the-cat-loglines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zigzorg.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Save the Cat – Loglines"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this book a while ago and it got me on a logline writing frenzy. Most of the good ones I came up with ended up being joke loglines like this one I made for a potential Bananagrams movie:<\/p>\n

Investigations into a Columbian drug ring reveal a distribution network through banana exports. #Bananagrams<\/p>\n

My brother and I ended up starting a shortly lived “Logline Limbo” blog that documented such bad loglines. The loglines that put movies in limbo or\u00a0movie purgatory.<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve been needing to revisit loglines and I found these blogs about the teachings from the highly appraised book Save The Cat<\/em>. They help explain loglines and how to write good ones,\u00a0and are supplements to the book, which I highly recommend, but also are better cheat sheets than the book so I recommend both.<\/p>\n

Here they are (I better not paraphrase this time because this blogger does that well):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/goodinaroom.com\/blog\/6-things-about-pitching-you-can-learn-from-blake-snyder\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.savethecat.com\/todays-blog\/try-this<\/a><\/p>\n