Script Analysis and Critique Services for Screenwriters
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- (including our own highly rated "Analyze your own script" and "Format your script Hollywood style")
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- (including typing, editing and professional writer services.)
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- regarding script submission.
Having your script critiqued by a professional Hollywood reader is a structured, non threatening way to get inexpensive and constructive feedback on your script and writing skills. You want to be sure that you make the most of the ONE chance your script has to make a good first impression.
Dr. Melody Jackson, who does all of Smart Girls critiques, is "Highly Recommended" and rated one of the "Top 5 Script Analysts in the country by Creative Screenwriting magazine.
Call Smart Girls for valuable, honest, and useful feedback on your screenplay. Melody Jackson will assess your script's strengths and weaknesses and then present you with ideas on how to more powerfully tell YOUR story. Areas covered include:
- Weaving plot, character, and theme into a cohesive story
- Distinguishing characters and developing meaningful arcs
- Building your plot authentically through cause and effect
- Writing from your gut and deepening the impact of your story
- Making your script more commercial
All critiques are by Dr. Melody Jackson, unless noted as "Reader."
Our Most Popular Critiques
Pricing |
Pages |
Consulting |
Style |
|
Development Critique |
$650 |
7-8 pp |
30 min. |
Hits all major elements |
Oral Critique |
$325 |
-- |
60 min. |
Focuses where needed. (Add 1 page highlights for $75) |
Master Critique |
$1495 |
20pp |
2 hours |
In depth on all areas. Includes Line Editing |
Market Ready (Oral) |
$200 |
-- |
15 min. |
Verbal feedback regarding whether ready to market |
Market Ready (Written) |
$250 |
1-2pp |
-- |
Written feedback regarding whether ready to market |
Reader Coverage, Treatments, & Other Options
| Basic Reader Coverage (3 pages of notes) | $175 |
| Basic Reader Coverage (1 hour feedback only) | $175 |
| Full Reader Coverage (3 pages of notes & 1-hr feedback) | $225 |
| Add a Script Editing Read (for marking up script pages)The Script Editing Read provides for reading the script a second time through to mark notes on the pages. |
$195 |
| Add-On Script Consultation Hours | $100/hr |
| Script Consultation Hours (separate from full critique) | $125/hr |
| Add-On Tape Recording of Oral Consultation | $45 |
| Add-On 1-2 page Written Highlights from Oral Consult | $75 |
| 1-Hour Consult on Treatment or Outline of 1-5 pages | $150 |
| 1-Hour Consult on Treatment or Outline of 5-10 pages | $225 |
