How to write a logline producers won't pass on

I like articles like this even though I'll never write a screenplay because it's fun to think of ways to apply it to ordinary persuasive writing. That said: if the craft of screenplay writing interests you, and if you haven't already, immediately subscribe to the Scriptnotes podcast, which is Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, Last of Us) and John August (Go, Big Fish), for like 600 episodes.

OP&#x27;s proposed logline for Star Wars would have been a total fail in the era when the logline was needed, namely before the film was made or known.<p>&gt;Luke Skywalker, a spirited farm boy, joins rebel forces to save Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire’s Death Star.<p>This is probably not an article you want to learn logline writing from.

Studio Binder is my go-to example when talking about well-run inbound content marketing.<p>They produce long articles that rank well in search for a wide variety of popular keywords related to movies and TV. But the articles are actually helpful and informative—so much so that they also drive organic social traffic (example: this post on HN). And each article features a few conversion widgets, but not so many where it’s hard to read the content.<p>I know nothing about the ROI and other back-end data for this program. It must be working for them, though, because it’s been going for a while.

&gt; Using tv logline example, Silicon Valley, we&#x27;d see that the logline is &quot;A shy silicon valley engineer tries to build his own company.&quot; While the tagline is &quot;He&#x27;s got called company.&quot;<p>&quot;He&#x27;s got called company&quot;? What does that mean? Am I missing a play on words here or is this just gibberish?

Slightly tangential, but does anyone have a non-standard, 2023-24 relevant advice for novel queries?

Very cool. I wonder how much of this approach is reusable in marketing.

Is it just me or is there some application here to writing user stories?

What is this trash site?? I don&#x27;t even know where to start reading??

Hah. I read &#x27;logline&#x27; in the context of logging information by a running process, and thought the post was about log lines that a logging infrastructure would not pass on for some reason.<p>Been computering too much :)

I was excited to read about filtering within logging pipelines, however the article left me bitterly dissapointed.