How It Works... Screenplays

With a full-time, award-winning dramatist among out associates, we can offer assessments of screenplays – for both TV and feature films

We do not approach screenwriting with any rigid theory, whether ‘Paradigms’ or ‘Mythic Journeys’ or ‘Three Acts’. We aim to simply assess and appreciate your screenplay on its own merits. To find what excites you about the story, and help you bring it out.

Our 2000-word report, returned within 14 days, will help you with –

• Scene structure – there are tricks to getting there
• Characters – make sure your cast list is tight, focused
• Dialogue – often less important than what they do
• Conflict – drama does not exist without it
• Imagery – film is an intensely visual medium
• Pace – storytelling is key, the basis of any good film
• Focus – every drama needs a protagonist
• Sub-plot – not every film needs one, maybe you do, maybe you don’t
• Formatting – in today’s market this is essential
• Saleability – we can help you with where to try and place your movie

What we hope to do is show you how to write the next draft which could further your script down the long road to production. We can also advise on the many pitfalls to be avoided along the way.

Follow-up meetings
It can be helpful to discuss the report in person. We are happy to arrange one-hour tutorials to follow up reports and any subsequent, detailed questions you have, in person or on the phone.

“....always had further insights to offer and seeing how
someone else had developed a story, and the feedback
offered about one’s own, was really constructive.”

                                                                                                        Rusty Martin