How it reads

Script Reader reads the way a studio reader reads: the whole script, objectively, with the page number for every claim.

The report has the sections a development executive expects. A cover block (format, genre, pages, budget tier, period, setting, concept). A five-category scorecard and an overall score that is reader judgment, not an average. Separate verdicts for the project and the writer: Pass, Consider or Recommend. A spoiler-complete synopsis. Comments across eleven craft areas, each scored out of ten with page references. Leading strengths and concerns. Marketability, kept apart from craft. Cultural and representation notes. And a writer-facing revision roadmap.

The reader is Claude, working from a checklist distilled from Beverly Neufeld's I Got You Covered, the working script reader's handbook. It is told to drop "I think", report what is on the page, and be honest even when that is uncomfortable. It does not flatter.

Scripts are read once and stored privately so you can download the coverage again. Nothing is used to train anything. Delete a script and it is gone.

Formats: PDF (with real page numbers), Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain, Word (.docx) and plain text. A scanned PDF with no text layer can't be read.

Questions: joseph@upperstate.tv.