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What is the difference between a logline and a tagline?

Tagged: business, film, pitching, screenplay, screenwriting, script, scriptwriting, terms

A “logline” is a movie’s concept boiled down to one or two sentences:

*On his deathbed, a father tells the story of his life the way he remembers it: full of wild, impossible exaggerations. His grown son tries to separate the truth from the fantasy before it’s too late.*

A “tagline” is a short, clever one-off found on a movie’s poster:

*An adventure as big as life itself.*

A logline can be thought of as the shortest possible pitch of a movie — what a writer could use to sell an idea to a buyer in just a sentence or two. Taglines are used by marketing departments to sell movies to audiences.

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