Before you go on that first interview you do your research on the prospective company. Before that first date you check with your friends as to what you’re wearing, where you might go and whether you should be early or late. Before you show the studio producer your new screenplay you get it checked for quality first, yes?

Unfortunately, most newbie screenplay writers don’t realize that if they fail to make the right impression, the reader of their treasured work of art will aid global destruction by filing your screenplay in the trash can before getting to page ten.

Your work of art must meet industry standards for format and presentation or they’ll know you’re a new writer. You may think that it’s great to use a special color cover with dazzling sprays of glitter, but the industry will sense your amateur status and may not even open the front cover of your last six month’s work.

That’s why you need someone to analyze your screenplay correctly before you present it. You need to make sure your first impression has the best possible chance.

A script ‘doctor’ will start by looking over your format. Is it exactly as required by the industry? Is the length right; is the indentation correct? What’s the grammar like; what’s the editing like? Did you mean for a character to change their political preference half way through?

The doctor will check for weaknesses and strengths checking your story structure by checking the plot, the theme, the protagonist, the antagonist, the dialogue, the characterizations, the tension, the character arcs, the resolutions, the conclusions, the commercial potential, and whatever you specifically ask for. You might want the ending to be stronger; just tell the screenplay analyst what you want looking at.

General coverage gives the writer a single sheet in the Hollywood standard; all that studio executives will see after staff readers will have analyzed the screenplay first. If it doesn’t pass this stage it won’t even get read by someone higher up the food chain that counts. It’s usually backed up by a couple of pages of useful notes of how to make some suitable changes to improve the overall quality.

Extended coverage provides the same as general coverage, but then takes the comments much further with in-depth notes and suggestions concerning story and plot, structure, characters, action, dialogue and writing.

You might just need help with your treatment – the document that explains your story in a few pages for the investors. Almost certainly that’s another one chance operation.

The cost of hiring a script doctor isn’t high, especially compared to the returns possible after selling a screenplay. The cost of not hiring that analyst might mean rejection and no financial return whatsoever. In terms of real money, this could be the greatest investment you can make in your profession.

You may not like the opinion the script doctor gives you, but it will a genuine and informed opinion, one to help you move your screenplay from just average to standing a much higher chance of success.

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Do you have a script/screenplay/theatre play that you want to improve, but don’t know how to do it?
You have your finished script. You think you’re ready to send it out to the industry. Then you realize you’ll only get one shot at it – your script must be great, the very best it can be, not just good. You should check it first with a professional.

In terms of money, this may be the best investment you can make in your career.

To get a real player to give a full assessment of your script the way any key screenwriter’s script would be evaluated and to know your weakness and your strengths is a priceless piece of information. Hollywood may be legendary in many respects, but it functions to make money. If someone is going to buy your screenplay for $200,000 or more, they’re going to want to know they’ve got the goods and this is one way of your knowing whether you’ve got it.

For you, I’m going to look for screenplay structure. What happens when is important.

I’ll look at format; the industry expects to get screenplays in one format only; any other and the reject pile just got closer.

I’ll look at the plot, the theme, the protagonist, the antagonist, the dialogue, the characterizations, the tension, the character arcs, the resolutions, the conclusions, the commercial potential, and whatever you specifically ask for. You might want the ending to be stronger; just tell me what you want me to look at.

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