HOURLONG
DRAMA
STORY
SCRIPT COVERAGE
5
- 9 Pages
$115.00
Story
Script Coverage offers more in-depth insight about the structure and
style of your hourlong drama. It also provides more specific comparisons between
your spec and taped episodes of the show (or similar shows, if your script is
a pilot). Included in this review is:
- Beat
Analysis
- 1/2 - 1 page - Are the necessary beats for your hourlong in place, and do
they come at the right moment? Are you obeying the rules for your particular
show? A beat analysis will help you see where you might be taking leaps that
seem intuitive to you, but won't appear so to a reader.
- Dialogue
Analysis - 1/2 - 2 pages - Comprehensive analysis of your use of
dialogue, breaking down several excerpts from your script to show you where
dialogue can be sharpened to increase its impact for the audience.
- Synopsis
- 1/2 page - You say you know what your story is, so why read a summary? Reading
another's summary of your story can give you great insight into whether you've
gotten what you want to say down on the page.
- General
Impressions - 1/2 - 1 page - An overview of the structural elements
of your script.
- Story
And Structure Analysis- 1 - 2 pages - An in-depth
analysis of your story progression, isolating holes in your plot, and breaking
down your storytelling technique.
- Taped
Comparison
- 1 - 2 pages - How does your sitcom stack up against filmed episodes of that
show (or similar shows, if yours is a pilot). Learn how to incorporate conventions
used by other shows into your own work to give it a more genuine feel.
- Grammatical
Analysis
- 1/2 - 1 page - An easy to understand chart of grammatical errors and the
changes that you need to make to correct them.