Top 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 biggest,...
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 colors,...
Read MoreThe Top 5 Biggest Script Format Mistakes Screenwriters Make
Your script is finished! And I’m pleased to announce that you are the most talented screenwriter in the world! Huzzah! Yes, it’s true. The word just came over the wire this morning. Your certificate is on the way, so you can pin it to your chest and wear it on the school bus home. But first… before mom throws your certificate up on the fridge… … you might wanna take one last look at that script of yours, before you throw it over the Paramount gates and pick up...
Read More4 Ways To Use The 120-Page Script Limit To Your Advantage
We’ve all heard it time and again, whether in film school, or just as an anecdotal whisper on the screenwriter wind: They say a screenplay should be no more than 120 pages. (“They”: the screenwriting/film industry at large, AKA the screenwriting zeitgeist which we all are a part of.) But 120 pages, MAX? Isn’t that just a bit arbitrary? Why not 121? Why not 119? After all, The Godfather, (a great little movie that you might not’ve heard of) wasn’t 120...
Read MoreThe Top 5 Ways To Handle Negative Script Coverage on Your Script
If you’ve ever received script coverage on one of your screenplays, you know how frustrating it can be if the reader who read and covered the script just flat-out didn’t like it, and/or gave your script low marks, or even, (GASP!) a PASS. But even with script coverages you absolutely don’t agree with, or is just PLAIN WRONG, there are several key tactics you can use, (if you can just tamp down that frustration a bit, and be willing to get STRATEGIC with it) to help TWEAK...
Read MoreThe 7 Deadly Script Readers to Avoid When Getting Script Coverage
My company Screenplay Readers has been reading scripts and providing script coverage since 1999, and we’ve run across all types of script readers who have been a part of our team, or who have applied to be part of our team, but didn’t make the cut. Here’s a list of the script reader TYPES you should watch out for when you order script coverage. If you’re getting any of these types of script readers covering your script, you might want a second opinion. THE...
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