My Script Needs Help! offers the following services: Coverage, Analysis, Repair, Formatting, and Ghostwriting. We provide these services on most material, from treatments & screenplays to novel-length manuscripts. Although our primary focus is feature films, and supporting those who want their material reviewed, polished, or rewritten from a film perspective, the team is available to support those who need help with improving TV scripts, stage plays, short stories, or novels.
To provide the best service possible, the truth must weigh out over ego stroking. We respectfully request that no one use our critique services if he/she wants only to hear how fabulous the writing skills are or how extraordinary the material is, and nothing else. Friends and family can do that for free. It is rare to find material that is so perfect it has no room for improvement. If material deserves a "Recommend" stamp of approval, it will get it. But this team has explicit instructions to be brutally honest with constructive criticisms to help make material the best it can be to compete in a highly competitive marketplace.
Our consultant team has over 100 entertainment industry professionals on board, who have worked at major studios and production companies providing development executives and producers with the same services they want to provide everyone. Who better to give professional critiques on what the industry players will want to buy, than those who have worked for them and know exactly what they want.
Whether it's major studio executives or independent producers, they all demand quality work to cross their desks the first time. Time is money and there is not enough of either in a given day to go through hundreds (if not thousands) of scripts that writers submit to them without professional coverage.
Our team can help writers tackle both goals, get valuable feedback and get their script in front of someone who can bring that script to the theater screen.
Major (and mini-major) studios are always looking for scripts that warrant development, production, and distribution funding. Sadly, the larger the studio the safer the gamble must be to appease even larger shareholders. Safe means investing in writers and concepts that are established money makers. Safe means anticipated minimal revenue losses. Safe keeps people employed. So, what does this mean for new writers?
Thankfully, the rise of independent filmmaking has allowed new talent into the playing field, and forced major studios to create specialty/art house divisions in order to capitalize on new writers and filmmakers. But writers still need someone to put their material in front of that studio executive, agent, or producer. No one will do that if the material doesn't warrant a "Consider" or "Recommend" stamp of approval from a professional story analyst.