The ScriptXpert service now offers you access to industry readers who will provide professional coverage on your screenplay.

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Basic coverage includes a grade sheet that evaluates the major elements of your screenplay on a grading scale of Excellent, Good, Fair or Poor. The first one to two pages that follow include notes about why the reader would choose to pass on or would recommend your screenplay. Two to three additional pages are broken down into notes and suggestions regarding story and plot, structure, characters, action, dialogue and writing.

Extended Coverage offers all of the components of Basic Coverage, plus three to four pages of suggestions on how to improve the script to achieve the recommend grade.

If your script receives a recommend grade, the reader's notes will focus on how to tighten the script and insure its success.

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Extended coverage includes a grade sheet that evaluates the major elements of your screenplay on a grading scale of Excellent, Good, Fair or Poor. The first one to two pages that follow include notes about why the reader would choose to pass on or would recommend your screenplay. Four to five additional pages are broken down into in-depth notes and suggestions regarding story and plot, structure, characters, action, dialogue and writing.

If your script receives a recommend grade, the reader's notes will focus on how to tighten the script and insure its success.

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Treatments are written to map out the story, its characters, setting, structure and plots in a prose document. ScriptXpert offers coverage on the treatment from a writer’s perspective, helping you to pinpoint and solve problems with the story prior to embarking on the scriptwriting process. Use this affordable option prior to save time and problems with your script before you write it.

*We require at least 4 pages of a treatment but can accept no more than 30 pages.

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Formatting check compares your script to the formatting guidelines generally accepted by the United States motion picture industry.

Professional formatting is a very important part of the screenplay submission. Scripts submitted that are not professionally formatted are difficult for readers to read and detract from the script's presentation.

Nothing is more irritating to a reader than poor grammar and spelling in an otherwise excellent script. Readers almost always mention such problems in their coverage to warn buyers of writers who are less than professional.

Our grammar and proofreading service helps catch those costly errors before you reach the reader.

ScriptXpert offers a proofreading and formatting check service only - serious deficiencies in grammar and sentence structure may require additional services.

A logline is an important sales tool for your screenplay. Often writers are tempted to give too much information in a logline, or they have difficulty capturing the essence of the story in a concise, compelling fashion.

With ScriptXpert’s professional help, you will be able to express your story concept in one powerful sentence to agents, executives and managers.

A prepared synopsis is part of the standard coverage process and consists of a one to two-page overview of the plot and characters of a submitted script. Buyers use the synopsis to get an idea of what and whom the script is about. Final Draft’s ScriptXpert provides a synopsis as an add-on option with its Basic and Extended Coverage packages for those writers who wish to see how his/her script would typically be encapsulated by a reader

Additionally, summarizing your script into a two-page synopsis can be a difficult task, and screenwriters may be asked to provide a synopsis of a script before the entire screenplay is submitted.

This one-on-one time with the reader is the perfect opportunity for writers to ask questions about their coverage, get more in-depth feedback on the reader's comments, discuss various solutions to weaknesses in the script, or even discuss how best to make the script more marketable in the industry. Phone consultations offer an excellent chance to get professional feedback on many aspects of your screenplay in a unique, personal setting. Phone consultation may be added to any Basic or Extended Coverage service within one week after the written coverage has been returned to the customer (to ensure that the material stays fresh in the reader’s mind).

MP3 Recording of your Phone Consultation - $25
Don’t worry about taking notes during your phone consultation. Make the most of your time with your ScriptXpert reader and let ScriptXpert e-mail you an MP3 file of your conversation the next business day. Review your discussion, play back key points, and keep an audio file of your consultation along with your written evaluation for future reference.