Hello. It’s been long since I posted.
I’ve been involved recently in an awesome screenwriting community at the Screenwriting Goldmine Forums that I wanted to share. It is totally devoted to the art/craft and business of screenwriting. There are some very knowledgeable people active in the community.
In particular, I wanted to mention this post made by a guru member Scrivener. It talks about the types of coverage and analysis you can get from the different outfits which offer such services, and gives a few nods to some of the trusted ones.
Here is an excerpt:
“A professional story analyst (“reader”) will read your feature-length script 80-120 pages (no books for this special) and will analyze it in a coverage report of 3 pages single-spaced. Comments section will be two pages min. No synopsis is included.
This report will contain the following:
Logline (1-3 sentences) summary of your story.
Comments (includes strengths and weaknesses regarding, structure, dialogue and character. A few suggestions on how to improve script).
Grid Rating of: Premise, Storyline, Structure, Characterization and Dialogue
Overall Rating of script: Pass, Consider or Recommend (with your permission, we will alert the industry about your material should it get a consider or recommend). We are not agents or producers and will not take a percentage of any deal. We make the introduction and step aside. No follow-up calls to the industry regarding your script will be made.
Turnaround time is 2-3 weeks. We will notify you by e-mail when material and payment are received.
Scripts over 120 pages will be charged an additional $1 per page over the 120 page count.
Their coverage is of a very high standard.”
If you are interested in screenwriting, this is the place you should go to seek advice.
Once you become a contributing member (more than 20 posts) you may gain access to the password protected section which lets you share your scripts and loglines with the other members for critique.