Creative Screenwriting Magazine National Survey July 2010
“Cream Of The Crop”
Top Weighted Overall Analyst/Consultant Scores:
#1. Analyst/Consultant: Howard Allen,
The Script Doctor
Weighted overall score: 52.58
| Average fees reported ($): | 274 |
| Average score from writers: | 5.00 |
| Number of writer reviews: | 12 |
Scores on: |
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| Respecting writer’s vision: | 5.00 |
| Morale/emotional support: | 5.00 |
| Comments on characters: | 4.83 |
| Comments on dialogue: | 4.83 |
| Comments on plot: | 5.00 |
| Help with the opening: | 4.83 |
| Help with the second act: | 4.42 |
| Help with the ending: | 4.42 |
| Help with markets, marketability: | 4.25 |
What Is The “Weighted Overall Score” Above?
The weighted overall score for each analyst or consultant combines these scores:
The 0-5 “overall” score the writer gave the analyst, plus
the sum of scores the writer gave the analyst or consultant on all of these criteria:
How well the analyst/consultant respected the writer’s vision
How well the analyst/consultant gave the writer emotional support/morale
Quality of the comments, if any, on characters
Quality of the comments, if any, on dialogue
Quality of the comments, if any, on plot
How helpful the analyst/consultant was with the opening
How helpful the analyst/consultant was with the second act
How helpful the analyst/consultant was with the ending
How helpful the analyst/consultant was with markets, marketability, marketing.
This weighted overall score gives extra weight to the 0-5 "overall score". It is otherwise a sum of all the individual category scores. Because it takes all these criteria into account, we believe that this is a better representation of how writers believed their analysts or consultants performed across the broad array of possible comments on a script than the 0-5 score by itself.
