Writer Beware: Buying “Access” to Studio Execs and Agents
A friend I’ve known for 30 years stopped in for a few days, visiting from the UK. We’ve always been close, so he knew I ran a company that did something with screenplays, but didn’t know exactly what that meant. So he asked, and I showed him how Screenplay Readers worked: Agents, writers, and producers submit scripts to our reader team, we read them, and then we give our analysis of their scripts in small 4-5 page script coverages. He was wowed at the whole...
Read MoreShooting The Messenger – How to Not Be A Dick When Getting Paid Script Feedback
My company Screenplay Readers provides script coverage, and we’re a team of vastly different script analysts, with vastly different tastes and backgrounds, as is any good script coverage company (and there are LOTS of good script coverage companies (coverageink.com, scriptapalooza.com, etc). But where you go wrong as a screenwriter in choosing one of us script coverage companies to cover your script is when you treat the entire process as if it’s an *objective science*,...
Read MoreTop 5 Ways to Get a Recommend on your Script Coverage
Has your screenplay ever received a RECOMMEND when getting script coverage? As a script analyst running my own script coverage company, Screenplay Readers, I’m constantly bombarded with questions from screenwriters and producers, but perhaps no question is asked more than: “What do I gotta do to get my script rated as a RECOMMEND?” And after replying to email after email over the years, I finally realized that there were 5 basic things I was telling the...
Read MoreTop 5 Bad Things Script Consultants Say About Script Coverage Which Aren’t True
Script coverage, as we all know, is 3-4 page “book report” on a screenplay, consisting of a synopsis and a set of reader comments on the script itself. The basic idea is, a busy producer or agent hires a script reader to read the stack of scripts on her desk, and then write COVERAGE for each script. That way, the agent can read the 3-4 pages of coverage, rather than the full 100-page script, saving time and money. And as you know, many companies online now offer script...
Read MoreTop 5 Tips for Starting a Script Reading Business
What? ! They actually PAY PEOPLE to read screenplays!? Yep! And I’ve found it to be a great way to augment my income. (Heck, I started my script reading company Screenplay Readers in 1999 and it soon took the place of my dreaded day job!) So here’s the skinny – I’ve just released a big ole video training course on how to set up your own script reading business, from scratch, even if you know nothing about the interwebs. But here, in brief, is some of the...
Read MoreScript Coverage 101 OR “They don’t give Recommends, do they?”
In the late 1990′s, I worked for legendary B-film maverick Roger Corman, who made Bucket of Blood and the original Little Shop of Horrors, and whose film company gave some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers their first shot at directing – Ron Howard, James Cameron, Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese – the list goes on and on. Some of my many jobs while working for Corman were re-writing scripts to meet budget requirements, coordinating script revisions and script page...
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