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• Date Posted: 10/27/09

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO READ THIS IMPORTANT ARTICLE BEFORE YOU PAY ANYONE TO PROVIDE SCRIPT COVERAGE FOR YOUR SCREENPLAY! Your decision: Professional Industry Screenplay Coverage vs. An Online Script Reader Here's what you need to consider: There's an endless supply of self-appointed screenplay readers, or "gurus" as they are commonly termed, that you've never heard of before your Google search. They'll provide a screenwriter with their notes, online consultations, phone meetings, advice, etc. but ironically they’ve never made a commercial movie that you've seen in the movie theater or can rent at Blockbuster, Netflix, or iTunes, though they are somehow qualified to analyze your script! Here's how the business works: If you're planning to send your screenplay to any production house, motion picture studio, talent agency, or to a name actor or producer, 9 out of 10 times the script will be read by an underpaid, under-appreciated college intern, office receptionist, or junior production assistant.This is just a fact of life as there are way too many screenplays coming into these places. These assistants are the gatekeepers to their bosses. If you are lucky, they read your script and provide "script coverage." This script coverage is basically what amounts to a "book report" of your script: a basic synopsis of the story and a quick review of what they thought of the plot, characters, storyline, action, budget level, and more. They rate your project (PASS, CONSIDER, or RECOMMEND) and that becomes your fate, most likely forever with that company as it resides on their computers for years to come making it virtually impossible to resubmit the script even if improvements have been made. Truly, there are several piles of scripts in their offices...ones that are fully financed with offers attached, scripts that have excellent coverage and may have attachments, too, and finally those scripts that have nothing yet. Which would you read first if you were an agent or manager? If your script doesn't make it past this one underpaid, script reader and in turn given decent script coverage, then the process ends there for you. Here's what we do for many seasoned writers, directors, and production teams: Seismic Scripts offers an intensive, first-class script consulting service with veteran producer, Robert Schwartz to help writers, directors and producers greatly improve their screenplay before submitting it in Hollywood or to investors. Along with unsurpassed creative story analysis, Mr. Schwartz will also assess your project’s viability in the marketplace on a financial and strategic basis. There is simply no other script coverage available anywhere that can compare on this intense and comprehensive level from a working professional producer. Our producer's screenplay coverage has provided comprehensive notes for numerous ICM, CAA, WMA, and WME clients, as well as having worked with client’s projects at Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, The Weinstein Company, Samuel Goldwyn Company, Avenue Pictures, Knightscove Entertainment, Lionsgate Films, Alliance Atlantis, Sundance Film Festival, The Heartland Film Festival, and many more. Here's what you will receive from us: Seismic Scripts will provide you with real, professional industry script coverage that will help you improve your screenplay and increase the probability that it will get past this initial script reader and to the person with real power. Mr. Schwartz will personally read your screenplay and write a script coverage report himself, not some anonymous script reader that you know nothing about or what their experience is in the business. Seismic Scripts will provide you with that "litmus test" of your screenplay and show you where your script succeeds, and where it could use some attention. Mr. Schwartz will be straightforward and honest with you, as he provides you with the information you cannot get from a typical screenplay reader who has never made a movie. As an experienced producer, he will also look at your screenplay from a strategic and financial perspective, helping you understand what steps you need to consider in areas like copyright protection, casting, legal partnerships, distribution, and marketing along with superior story analysis. After you spend all the hard work it takes to create a draft of your story, you need intelligent, comprehensive producer's coverage to take your project to the next level. Go to SeismicScripts.com and learn more.