The Trailer Logline
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Aim
Learn to crystallize a premise into one promise, ideating loglines with AI, to produce a logline one-pager.
In one line
Compress your premise into a single persuasive promise.
Stage run
| # | Stage | Type | Aim | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Trailer Logline | arcade | Students draw three random genre cards into Snyder's protagonist/goal/stakes slots and assemble a one-sentence logline under a 30-second timer, then the class swipe-votes it watchable or skip β producing a messy pitch first so the three-slot logline spine can be formalised after (Kapur productive failure). | |
| 2 | Trailer Logline | dossier | ||
| 3 | Constrained Prompting | workbench | Learn to drive an AI through a fixed-slot template instead of an open request, to force precise output on demand, in the context of compressing your story into a logline. | |
| 4 | Logline + 1-Pager | larp | Can you compress your whole film into one sentence a stranger would pay to watch? | 70 |
Evidence artefact
Logline + concept 1-pager