logline means A very short summary of a script or screenplay. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
logline is pronounced /ˈlɒɡ.laɪn/.
noun
- A very short summary of a script or screenplay.“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 line fastened to the log, and marked for finding the speed of a vessel.“Besides the ingenious Pilot knowing the elevation of the Pole in some places of his voyage that he hath passed, by keeping a true, not a dead reckoning of his course in pricking his Card aright, and observing the way with the logge-line, with other currants, will give a very artificiall conjecture of the elevation of the pole in that place where he is, though he sec neither Sunne nor Starres.”