Within the first 5-pages of a screenplay an industry professional will know if you know how to write a screenplay. Your story may be great but wrong formatting and certain writing styles (e.g. improper sluglines, telling and not showing, etc) will dissuade an industry professional from looking deeper into your script. Because of this, the first 5-pages are a crucial to show you know how to write a screenplay and have your work be taken seriously.

With this service, Case will read the first 5-pages of your screenplay and provide notes highlight formatting, grammar, and style issues along with creative issues (e.g. use of clichés, etc), potential production issues, and any other strengths or weakness that might be noteworthy to a professional reader.

***If the writing is great, this service is free-of-charge.***

An industry script evaluation (also known as “Coverage”) is a standard practice for major studio, production company, and producers. Script readers make an evaluation and pas it along to producers. If a script has a high evaluation, a producer will read that script immediately.

In an evaluation, a script reader ranks the writer’s story, execution, writing quality, and market potential on a scale from 1 to 10. Scripts with 10s get fast tracked to producers. This evaluation will also feature a logline, a synopsis, and an additional page or two of comments about what the script does right, wrong, and could potentially be.

What you can do with this evaluation is see an industry perspective of how they see your script. Seeing how people who make films see you script is a strong tool on how to strengthen your script’s writing quality, story, and shoot-ability.

With this service, Case will provide a professional script evaluation of your screenplay. It will include a scaled ranking of the script’s story, execution, writing quality, and market potential along with a log line, synopsis, and commentary.

Expect approximately 2 to 3 pages of notes.

There’s an additional fee of $5 per page for scripts greater than 120 pages.

With this service, Case will read your completed feature film screenplay and provide detailed notes on your story, structure, writing quality, execution, subject matter, shoot-ability, budget & schedule, film festival & market prospects, and other strengths or concerns. There will be select in-page notes highlighting these issue. This will also include a round of follow up questions by you the writer to go further into some of these notes.

Expect approximately 4 to 6 pages of notes.

For scripts greater than 120 pages, there’s an additional fee of $5 per page.

For page-by-page annotations of the entire script, which will highlight all the above details on each page, there’s an additional fee of $300 with $8 per page for scripts above 120 pages.

With this service, Case will read your completed short film screenplay and provide detailed notes on your story, structure, writing quality, execution, subject matter, shoot-ability, budget & schedule, film festival prospects, and other strengths or concerns. There will be select in-page notes highlighting these issue. This will also include a round of follow up questions by you the writer to go further into some of these notes.

Expect approximately 2 to 3 pages of notes.

For scripts greater than 25 pages, there’s an additional fee of $5 per page.

For page-by-page annotations of the entire script, which will highlight all the above details on each page, there’s an additional fee of $50 with $8 per page for scripts above 25 pages.

With this service, Case will read your completed half-hour episodic show screenplay and provide detailed notes on your story, structure, writing quality, execution, subject matter, shoot-ability, budget & schedule, film festival & market prospects, and other strengths or concerns. There will be select in page notes highlighting these issue. This will also include a round of follow up questions by you the writer to go further into some of these notes.

Expect approximately 3 to 5 pages of notes.

For scripts greater than 35 pages, there’s an additional fee of $5 per page.

For page-by-page annotations of the entire script, which will highlight all the above details on each page, there’s an additional fee of $100 and an $8 per page fee scripts above 35 pages.

With this service, Case will read your completed one-hour episodic show screenplay and provide detailed notes on your story, structure, writing quality, execution, subject matter, shoot-ability, budget & schedule, film festival & market prospects, and other strengths or concerns. There will be select in page notes highlighting these issue. This will also include a round of follow up questions by you the writer to go further into some of these notes.

Expect approximately 3 to 5 pages of notes.

For scripts greater than 65 pages, there’s an additional fee of $5 per page.

For page-by-page annotations of the entire script, which will highlight all the above details on each page, there’s an additional fee of $200 and an $8 per page fee scripts above 65 pages.

If you’re interested in learning more about screenwriting or services not listed here, please email. Screenwriting lessons, deep dives into your script’s story, ongoing script notes at a discount, and more are available.

We can develop a custom service just for you and set an agreed upon rate.

Feel free to ask.