The Best Screenplay Consultation Money Can Buy
Are you a novice screenwriter working on your first script? An experienced scribe seeking to maximize the impact and sales potential of your latest effort? A director or producer trying to get a green light, or an independent filmmaker looking to attract financing and package your project? Are you an investor attempting to evaluate the commercial and artistic value of a project? Or are you a studio or production company executive trying to decide whether to acquire or greenlight a script, or how to guide it through development?
No matter who you are or what you're trying to do, I can help you.
Great filmmakers understand that motion pictures are really emotion pictures. That means that screenwriting is emotional writing.
If you're an author, you need to move your readers. If you're a director, producer, executive, or investor, you need your project to connect with your audience's emotions and leave them with an intensely satisfying emotional payoff.
In order to do that, every single one of the following aspects of your script has to shine:
| Theme | The underlying emotional point of a story that resonates with readers and audience members and renders the ending satisfying |
| Plot | The concept of the story and the construction of the narrative, complete with distinct acts, dramatic tension, and an effective resolution |
| Character | The strength, depth and distinctiveness of the characters, and the degree to which readers and audience members will like and relate to them even if they're flawed or overtly antiheroic |
| Dialogue | The entertainment value of the dialogue, its effectiveness at simultaneously advancing the story and heightening characterization, and the degree to which different characters speak with distinct voices instead of all sounding the same |
| Form | The quality and seamlessness of the reading experience, and the writer's mastery of language and the screenplay form |
The in-depth analysis and consulting I provide identifies all creative and commercial problems with each of those aspects of a screenplay and includes detailed recommendations for solving them during revisions, development, pre-production, or even principal photography. I target my analysis to your needs and the market you're entering so that you'll be able to submit the best possible draft of your screenplay to your industry contacts and make the right decisions about a project.
You won't find better screenplay analysis anywhere.
But you don't have to take my word for it — or anyone else's word, either. To the best of my knowledge, nobody else in the industry provides the kind of comprehensive sample analysis I do, and not just of a screenplay nobody else has read, but of theatrically-released movies you've very possibly already seen.
You can read my movie analysis blog and my sample analysis of Mission: Impossible 3 — and you can see what kind of analysis and recommendations I'll give you. You can also check out the other side of my life as a writer-director. And through the end of March, I'm offering special introductory rates.
So let's get to work!