See Your Script Clearly

 

You’ve finished a screenplay? Well done. Most people never get that far. 

Now you want to know if it’s any good? Or how to make it better? 

Here are a few ways you can do that:

 

1. Get your mum to read it. Unless she’s a professional screenwriter, she’ll undoubtedly say she loves it. Which is exactly what she’s supposed to say – it’s her job.

2. Send it out to actors, directors, production companies. It might get snapped up, but it’s infinitely more likely you’ll be ghosted or receive a cut and paste message saying ‘thanks, but no thanks’. Unfriendly, but true.

3. Use an AI service. Or rather – don’t. It’s meaningless robot coverage. (What’s coverage…?)

4. Coverage. Invented so Hollywood producers don’t have to actually read any scripts. Someone else reads them, and sums them up. For the producer, not the writer. They’re literally no help whatsoever. 

5. My script notes. 

 

Let me tell you about my script notes…

 

We writers see our scripts, most clearly, in our heads – not on the page. The person who reads them doesn’t have this clarity. They only have the actual words we send them. 

 

Which is where I come in – by helping you see your screenplay the way a reader sees it.

I’ll tell you what’s working, what’s not, and what to do about it.

 

My notes are ‘first read’ notes – my thoughts on your writing as I read it. I do this because no one in the industry is ever going to read your script more than once. They’re going to react to what you’ve written, page by page. So I do exactly the same. 

 

The difference is, every time I like something, or don’t, every time I’m confused, or find something I think doesn’t work – I tell you. I tell you the page, I tell you the line and I tell you my exact thoughts about what I think the problems are. Then I suggest ways for you to fix them. Sometimes, this won’t be what you want to hear, but it will always be what you need to hear – the same level of honest, detailed feedback I’d want to receive myself.

 

Most screenwriting advice obsesses over the 'science' of putting a script together - the 'rules', the reverse engineering, the 'proven' alchemy of movies. 

I’m much more interested in your characters, their dialogue, what happens – the story!

 

And because I don’t simply point out problems, I offer solutions too, all my notes are actionable. Or ignorable – I make no claims to know your story better than you do, I just tell you, moment by moment, my experience of your script. Whether you change anything is entirely up to you.

 

So, what do you get, exactly? Good question.

 

10-15 pages of forensic notes is normal. And, just so we’re clear, my notes aren’t full of industry jargon and vague opinions. They’re more like an in-depth chat – because that’s how I like to feed back. You and me, two writers, chatting about your screenplay. And when you get to the end, I promise I won’t leave you wondering what to do next. 

 

Instead you’ll be excited to start your next draft.

 

What’s it cost? £249 per full-length script.

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How long does it take? Usual turnaround is a week.

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