- 2-5 day turnaround
- For treatments up to 10-pages + title page
WHAT OUR WRITERS SAY
OUR READERS
Our experienced readers have read for some of the biggest studios and production companies out there, including Universal, Lionsgate, Working Title, BBC, Netflix, and many others. Here are some of the members of our team.
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FAQ’s
Script Coverage is a reader’s thorough analysis of a writer’s work. Coverage started out in Studios where readers were employed to read countless scripts so that the producers didn’t have to! These reports were purely for internal use, with the reader marking a script with a Pass, Recommend, or Consider. Scripts that were marked Recommend would get passed up the food chain. The writer would never be privy to these comments.
Our coverage service is more than that. Our sole intention is to help a writer create a better draft of their work. To get it to a point where it’s ready to be sent out to people in the industry. We are completely honest about what we feel does and doesn’t work, giving clear reasons for our opinions. When analyzing a screenplay, our readers focus and write about the Premise & Theme, Hook & Stakes, Characters, Dialogue & Sound, Producibility, and overall Presentation, and provide a Conclusion. We make suggestions throughout the coverage as to how the writer can improve their story.
We offer different types of feedback, so it’s worth checking out which is best for you.
We offer the following coverage options:
3-Page Script Coverage – 3 pages of actionable notes giving feedback on your script’s Premise & Theme, Hook & Stakes, Characters, Dialogue & Sound, Producibility, and overall Presentation. Plus a Conclusion that provides a summary of your script’s key strengths and areas for improvement. It also includes a logline and an industry scorecard.
6-Page Script Coverage – 6 pages of constructive development notes giving feedback on your script’s Premise & Theme, Hook & Stakes, Characters, Dialogue & Sound, Producibility, and overall Presentation. Plus a Conclusion that provides a summary of your script’s key strengths and areas for improvement. This also includes a detailed Synopsis, a logline, and an industry scorecard. Our most comprehensive & detailed feedback option.
Proofreading – Script readers always pick up on spelling, punctuation, grammar, and formatting mistakes, so it’s essential that your script is polished before sending it out into the industry. We will go through your screenplay and mark up errors and items for improvement.
In addition, we offer the following short reports for short Treatments & the 1st 10 Pages of your script:
2-Page Script Coverage – Treatments – 2 pages of notes giving feedback on your treatment including key contents, logline, story or series breakdown, character roles, and suggestions for your pitch. The perfect preparation for marketing your story.
2-Page Script Coverage – The first 10 pages of your script – 2 pages of notes giving feedback on your script’s first 10 pages, giving detailed feedback on the opener, establishment, backstory, potential for narrative & character arcs, and conflict. Development suggestions tailored to your story’s premise.
It’s hard to step back and look at your own work objectively when you’ve been so close to it for so long, but feedback is essential. Coverage offers up an objective look at your script by someone who not only knows story inside and out, but also the industry. If you send your script to a studio, agent, or producer, and if your screenplay actually gets read, you’ll never be privy to the notes that were written by the reader, meaning you’ll never get the chance to address the issues raised in their report. With coverage, you can, helping you to make your script industry ready.
We accept Treatments/Outlines i.e. short prose texts of up to 10 pages intended to capture your story idea, Short Film scripts, TV Pilots, and Feature screenplays.
Having constructive honest feedback is crucial in order to get your screenplay to a point where it’s ready to be sent out into the world. Our readers have read for some of the top production companies in the world. We deliver comprehensive notes that cover all aspects of your screenplay. We strongly believe that we offer the best coverage service out there. Feel free to contact us with any questions.
You will receive your coverage within 2-5 days.
Each month our Top 3 scripts that have been forwarded for Coverage will be sent through to these members of our Industry Roster:
And what’s more, if a reader recommends that our senior staff read your script, we will do so. If we feel that it’s suited for someone on our roster, we will approach the writer to see if he/she is happy for us to send it out.
So, yes, if we love your work, we’ll get it out to our industry and directors roster.
No. We don’t ever hold any rights over your work.
Absolutely. We have worked with writers from all over the world.
However, all scripts must be written in English.
Our readers have read for some of the successful production companies in the world. They include Universal, Working Title, Lionsgate, Vertigo Films, BBC, Anchor Bay Ent, Creative Europe Media, The Fyzz, Austin Film Festival, Wildgaze, Goldfinch, and others.
Our readers have a wealth of experience and a wide diversity of experience. To help align your script with the right reader, you are able to specify a Genre and enter Comments for the Reader on the submission form. If you have used one of our readers before and would like them to read your work again, you can do so in the submission form. This is charged with an additional fee of 15%.
As we know, reviewing creative work is always subjective, so there may be some points that you don’t completely agree with. However, if you have serious concerns about your coverage, please contact us with the details and we’ll get back to you asap.
Shore Scripts does not use any AI systems to review and evaluate screenplays entered for coverage, or contest submissions. Every script is read and coverage notes written by our experienced team of script readers. Go to our Team page to see more information on our readers.
Maximum Page Lengths (Not including the Title Page) are as follows:
Feature scripts should ideally be within 80-120 pages.
½-Hour TV Pilots should be within 5-30 Pages and 1-Hour TV Pilots should be within 40-70 Pages.
Short film scripts and web series pilot scripts should be within 2-30 pages
For all of the above formats, writers can exceed the recommended limits by up to 30 pages, with an additional fee of $1 per page.
For our 2-page reports, we only accept the first ten (10) pages of a script, or treatments up to ten (10) pages long for Features, TV Pilots, Shorts, and Animation screenplays.
