Script Editing Services
It’s here in the screenplay where the characters and their journeys must really spring to life, leaping off the page to stimulate the mind, perhaps tickle the funny bone and move the heart.
After an initial consultation and a reading your screenplay draft, I provide a detailed analysis and recommendations in the form of report(s) as well as consultation to aid in resolving primary and secondary narrative issues - i.e. unresolved character journeys, plotting issues, possible breaks in story logic, etc.
There are two levels of consultation: Basic and Advanced.
Development Notes & Verbal Consultation - Basic
A feedback report that constructively critiques your screenplay’s strengths and weaknesses as well as makes recommendations for further development in the areas of: premise, theme, characterization & relationships, conflict, structure & plot, quality of dialogue, tone, story execution & screenplay form issues, genre, audience, marketability.
Spot Notes on your screenplay document.
Consultation in person (if practical) or via phone or video up to 2 hours. This can be split into multiple sessions and can include co-writer(s) and other members of a creative team.
Development Notes & Verbal Consultation - Advanced
A initial feedback report that constructively critiques your screenplay’s strengths and weaknesses as well as makes recommendations for further development in the areas of: premise, theme, characterization & relationships, conflict, structure & plot, quality of dialogue, tone, story execution & screenplay form issues, genre, audience, marketability.
Spot Notes on your screenplay document.
After the writer(s) have utilized the notes in the initial report and have written a next draft, my second feedback report cites improvements and any further possible weak areas, as well as makes suggestions for further development.
A second set of Spot Notes on your screenplay document.
Consultation in person (if practical) or via phone or video up to 3 hours. This can be split into multiple sessions and can include co-writer(s) and other members of a creative team.
TV Series Development
I provide custom designed, bespoke story consultation and script editor services to writers and creative teams who are developing a live action or animated TV series.
For projects at an early stage of development, I can provide a service package that includes feedback report(s) and consultation on the various components of a pitch package, including: your pitch and/or writers’ bible, logline(s), episode teleplays including a pilot, character descriptions, episode outlines (sometimes referred to as ‘springboards’ in animation), promotional trailer scripts, etc.
For projects heading into production, I can provide an on-going story consultant/script editor’s over-view to assist in maintaining perfect consistency and continuity in all areas.