Found this morning in a search:
A logline is a one-sentence summary of your script.
www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Tips/Logline/logline.html
It's the short blurb in TV guides that tells you what a movie
is about and helps you decide if you're interested …
The search was suggested by a screenwriting weblog post,
"Loglines: WHAT are you doing?".
What is your story about?
No, seriously, WHAT are you writing about?
Who are the characters? What happens to them?
Where does it take place? What’s the theme?
What’s the style? There are nearly a million
little questions to answer when you set out
to tell a story. But it all starts with one
super, overarching question.
What are you writing about? This is the first
big idea that we pull out of the ether, sometimes
before we even have any characters.
What is your story about?
The screenwriting post was found in an earlier search for
the highlighted phrase.
The screenwriting post was dated December 15, 2009.
What I am doing now is checking for synchronicity.
This weblog on December 15, 2009, had a post
titled A Christmas Carol. That post referred to my 1976
monograph titled Diamond Theory .
I guess the script I'm summarizing right now is about
the heart of that theory, a group of 322,560 permutations
that preserve the symmetry of a family of graphic designs.
For that group in action, see the Diamond 16 Puzzle.
The "super overarching" phrase was used to describe
this same group in a different context:
This is from "Mathieu Moonshine," a webpage by Anne Taormina.
A logline summarizing my approach to that group:
Finite projective geometry explains
the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs—
found, for instance, in quilts.
The story thus summarized is perhaps not destined for movie greatness.