Why you Should Learn to Love the Logline
and a half to properly read a correctly-formatted screenplay. And even if you’ve got a lot of time on your hands (which I didn’t), you still can’t read more than, say, 10 or 20 scripts in a week. Not if you’re trying to seriously consider them for production. And as soon as you have ANYTHING going on in your life, you’re lucky to get through 5 or 6 of them.
Eventually, I was consumed with guilt. Not getting back to writers who had submitted their screenplays made me just as wicked and evil as every other producer that had never gotten back to me. Skimming scripts to “get a feel for it” was going against what I claimed made me different. The mountain of scripts (okay, call it a “stack”, but emotionally, it was a mountain) became overwhelming.
There had to be a better way.
Ironically, I found it. It’s called a LOGLINE.
