Nicholas Packwood
Script Analysis
Script Analysis addresses the formal elements of screenplay writing in dialogue, characterisation, scene and setting. A structural analysis of your script takes this assessment deeper, considering the underlying storytelling grammar and syntax of your script.
• What makes your scenes memorable?
• What makes your script marketable?
• Does your dialogue convey character?
• Does your pacing match your plot?
Script Analysis takes your script and helps it to better address your intended audiences:
the producers your work needs to convince;
the directors you work needs to inspire, and;
the audience your work needs to capture.
Oral consultation
Script Analysis is a creative, critical assessment taking into account your intended audience, genre, medium and market.
An Oral Consultation offers an appraisal of your script grounded in a structural analysis of the text, genre conventions, market expectations and the differing ways the script might be read by a producer or director (depending on the medium and/or game platform as appropriate).
A Script Analysis offers concrete suggestions for revising or adapting the script. A micro-level analysis may include re-ordering a scene or pointing out repetitious directions. A further macro-level analysis may include adding or changing a major character, location or prop depending on your intended market, medium and budget.
Script analysis
A Script Analysis includes a professional assessment of plot structure, beats and pacing; act structure, scene and setting; dialogue; character development and resolution; internal, external and romantic conflict (where applicable). Script Analysis considers the combination of these narrative elements and assesses the relative success of the script as it represents character and conflict.
An Oral Consultation relays this assessment and offers suggestions for memorable, effective dramatic impact.
Development Notes supplement an oral consulation with an executive summary of the assessment in written form.
A Script Mark up points to line edits and revisions. These are not meant to substitute for a formal proof reading or copy editing of your script but indicate the assessment structure underlying the Oral Consulation and Development Notes.
Script doctoring
Script Doctoring is an active re-write of your finished screenplay. This may include revising and re-ordering scenes for dramatic impact, re-writing directions and dialogue, addressing problems in continuity and, in some cases, dropping and re-writing scenes including the first act and/or climax and resolution.
Ghost writing
Ghost Writing takes a partial or incomplete script and finishes it taking into account the needs of your audience, medium and budget.
Proof reading & copy editing
Proof reading and copy editing revises your script for spelling, grammar, clarity and adherence to standard screen writing conventions. This service does not include revisions or re-writing.
Treatment review
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Pitch review
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Synopsis & treatment writing
The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets ... The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
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