Hi, I wrote a screenplay and I want a professional eye to test it. Has anyone used the services of "Screenplay Readers" - that you can find here under "Deals"?
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A couple things. What you want is called coverage. I would NOT recommend sending a script over for coverage unless you are sure it's up to industry pro standards. Otherwise you are wasting your money and their time. If you do want to get coverage, make sure you are getting coverage by actual working script readers who can do something with it if they like it. There are a hundred / thousand script reader shops out there of other screenwriters trying to make a buck. That's not going to help you. Start with friends, family and people you trust. They should be looking at story stuff. You need to write, re-write and do that 4 more times to find typos and stuff. Then have folks here look at the screenplay to make sure it resembles something industry level. After all of that ... if you think you have something ... then pay the money and find a connected coverage source you like: The Blacklist, SpecScout or Script Pipeline. Also, keep in mind that coverage is up to the reader. If you send it to 10 people, you will probably get 10 different feedbacks. The real magic happens at a Pitch. Not in coverage.
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Screenplayreaders are good. But Stacy's advice is even better.
start with feedback from peers/fellow writers before you ever pay for anything. they will tell you what's right and what's wrong OR whether your script has potential OR answer whatever specific questions about it you might have. you can't get specific questions answered with paid coverage.
thanks everyone.
My favorite words are... Delete... Edit... Rewrite... Rewrite... Rewrite!
That word rewrite haunts me in my dreams...... But yes, get as much feedback as possible for a few different reader services. Once you pick one then be prepared to be picked apart like a Grizzly feeding on a Bison Carcass. BUT if you can't take criticism then pick a new job, because it can be rough. But if you pick a good service then it will be invaluable in the long run.
I like the grizzly vs bison encounter:-) I mean metaphorically-not at the life cost of the bison.
I agree K, but the Bison is already dead and the Grizzly will keep going back to it until it is picked clean. And yes, writing is re-writing. I don't like to call my completed scripts first drafts even though they technically are. I just pulled one out that has been sitting for a few months while doing research for another script I have been working on. My advice is to copy write it and then post it here for people to have a go at it while you are doing research for the best place to send it too to see if it is good enough to start sending it to the market. That is just my idea though.