Why The Logline Is The Most Important Part Of The Screenwriting Process — Mike Thompson

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Film Courage: Mike, on your website you have something about seven log line essentials where if a writer reaches out to you, you will send them sort of a free template and email them back some thoughts?

Mike Thompson, Screenwriter/Script Consultant: Yeah, well there’s two things I offer that are sort of the invitation to the person who comes to my consulting website.

One is idea vetting because. I ask them to submit their idea to me, but use my seven log line essentials. What a log line is for those that don’t know is it’s basically a sentence summarization of your script idea but what it’s really trying to do is show us:

-What the central concept is

-The central conflict that the hero is going to be facing

-What’s at stake

-What are the antagonistic forces that they’re facing