The idea for Hollywood's next blockbuster film is in your head. Now you've got your first movie script tucked into the bottom drawer of your desk. Professional script coverage can get your screenplay out of the drawer and into the studio.
A review of your writing - coverage as its known in the industry - is done by a professional studio reader. He or she reads your work and writes up a brief outline of the plot. They then write comments on the flow of the plot along with characterization and dialogue, and they judge it as a go or no-go for the studio.
There are two kinds of reviews you can get. Standard notes are done by a studio reader when you submit your work to big studio. They read your submitted screenplay and determine if it's something they want to turn into a produced film.
Alternatively, you can send your screenplay to a reader for hire. He or she reviews your screenplay for a set fee paid by you. The problem with this is that you don't know the angle from which the reader will review your work.
If you get notes from a studio, you have a basic idea of the what the reader is looking for based on which studio he or she works for. An example would be getting covered by Fox Searchlight Films. The readers at that studio are looking for edgy, character-driven dramas. If your work falls into that category, it's no guarantee, but you could get a good review.
If you submit to an independent reader, you don't have that frame of reference. Your writing could be good but the story just doesn't appeal to that particular reader's preferences. The feedback you get won't align with any particular studio. Getting script coverage early on in your career is a valuable exercise and could lead you to make improvements in your writing to get it noticed by a reader at a major studio.
A review of your writing - coverage as its known in the industry - is done by a professional studio reader. He or she reads your work and writes up a brief outline of the plot. They then write comments on the flow of the plot along with characterization and dialogue, and they judge it as a go or no-go for the studio.
There are two kinds of reviews you can get. Standard notes are done by a studio reader when you submit your work to big studio. They read your submitted screenplay and determine if it's something they want to turn into a produced film.
Alternatively, you can send your screenplay to a reader for hire. He or she reviews your screenplay for a set fee paid by you. The problem with this is that you don't know the angle from which the reader will review your work.
If you get notes from a studio, you have a basic idea of the what the reader is looking for based on which studio he or she works for. An example would be getting covered by Fox Searchlight Films. The readers at that studio are looking for edgy, character-driven dramas. If your work falls into that category, it's no guarantee, but you could get a good review.
If you submit to an independent reader, you don't have that frame of reference. Your writing could be good but the story just doesn't appeal to that particular reader's preferences. The feedback you get won't align with any particular studio. Getting script coverage early on in your career is a valuable exercise and could lead you to make improvements in your writing to get it noticed by a reader at a major studio.
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