Your screenplay, read and scored.
Studio-style coverage for your feature or pilot. $69, back in 2 days.
- Coverage is the report studio readers write about a script: a one-page summary, six scores and notes
- Every note points at a page number. Nothing vague, nothing about you as a person
- A verdict on the script: Pass, Consider or Recommend
$69 · £55 incl. VAT · A$105 · C$95 — back in 2 days
From "is it ready?" to a report you can act on.
Friends say they like it. Contests send a form letter. Coverage tells you what a reader saw on page 61 and what to do about it.
NORTH OF NOWHERE. Feature, drama, 108 pages. A widowed lighthouse keeper on a Maine island finds a stranger's boat and hides him from the mainland police through a three-day storm. I've done four drafts. My writing group likes Ida but says the middle is slow, nobody says where. Is it ready for Nicholl and the Austin fest, or do I keep going?
Logline (ours): When a grieving lighthouse keeper shelters a wounded stranger from the police through a three-day storm, she must decide whether the man she is protecting is a victim or the reason her husband's boat never came back.
The problem, by page. The stranger's secret is given to the audience on p. 61 (the radio call), so for 32 pages Ida is the only person in the room who does not know, and the storm does the waiting for her. Move the reveal to p. 80, or give Ida a decision on p. 70 that costs her something.
What works. Ida's refusal to speak her husband's name until p. 94 is the best choice in the script; the ending earns it. The island supply-boat scenes (pp. 12, 44) are the only places the outside world feels real.
Verdict on the script: CONSIDERSample: the script and the writer are made up. Every real report is written from your pages only. Read the full sample report.
Three steps. Two days.
Send your script
A link to your PDF (or email it to us with your order code), the title, format, page count, genre and your one-sentence pitch. Tell us what you most want to know.
We read every page
Within 2 days: a one-page synopsis in our words (so you can see what landed), six scores from 1 to 5, what works, the problems with page numbers, and the verdict on the script.
You get the report
By email as a PDF, about four pages. You decide what to rewrite and where to send it. We never forward your script and we never promise a sale.
$69one script, up to 130 pages, 2 days
- Logline in our words and a one-page synopsis
- Six criteria scored 1–5: premise, structure, character, dialogue, pacing, market
- Strengths, and every problem tied to a page number
- Pass / Consider / Recommend on the script. Late means a refund.
Also £55 incl. VAT · A$105 · C$95 · Short scripts (under 40 pages) same price
Read a whole report first.
The full coverage for a made-up feature, NORTH OF NOWHERE: synopsis, scores, notes by page, verdict, plus the six questions we score every script on. Use them on your own draft if you would rather not pay.
Read the sampleThe six questions · sample
Premise. Can the story be said in one sentence with a person, a want and a thing in the way? Would a stranger want to know what happens?
Structure. Does something change the direction of the story around pp. 25–30, the midpoint and pp. 80–90? Where do the pages wait?
Character. Does the lead make a choice that costs something? Could the supporting cast be swapped without loss?
Dialogue. Cover the names: can you tell who is speaking? How much is said that the picture already shows?
Send us the script.
Seven questions, five minutes. You get an order code at the end, then pay. The report arrives by email within 2 days.
Does it say Pass, Consider or Recommend?
Yes, on the script only. We do not grade you as a writer, and a Consider is not a promise that anyone will buy it. The six scores and the page notes are the useful part; the verdict is the one line you can compare with a contest's.
Who reads it?
Our team reads every page and writes the report against the six criteria studio readers use. No celebrity reader, no name-dropping, no five-minute skim: every note points at a page, and the synopsis is in our words so you can see what actually landed.
Can you send it to producers or contests?
No. We never forward your script anywhere and we have no deals with contests, managers or producers. Your script stays yours; the report is for you.
Pay by card after you get your order code: $69 · £55 incl. VAT · A$105 · C$95. Up to 130 pages; longer scripts by email first. Late means a refund.