How to Write Script Coverage; helping readers and writers give notes people trust

How to Write Script Coverage is a free, self-paced course on writing script coverage, the report a reader writes for an agent, a producer or a contest. Thirteen steps take you from a cold read of a screenplay to a finished coverage: the box at the top, the logline as you hear it, the synopsis, three things worth keeping, the honest read, the grid, a five-lens read, market position and casting, and the verdict for both the script and the writer. Each step has a short read, a Don’t skip box with the part new readers miss, a worked example from an invented first draft and the reader who covers it, and questions. You cover a real script alongside her, so your answers become your first coverage sample. Included: the How to Write Script Coverage workbook, a file that opens in your web browser and saves as you type, plus a printable worksheet for every step, a blank coverage form, a grid scoring card, a synopsis practice sheet, a reader’s log and a full sample coverage. The workbook compiles your answers into one printable coverage at the end, with notes for the writer on the last page. Free from Goldsmith Production Services. Self-paced, with no videos and nobody grading your pages. When you want a second read on your own script, The Read is Goldsmith Production Services’ one-sheet coverage for writers.