Comments on: (Not) Wanted: Script Assessors

By: peter

peter — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:55:08 +0000

Karel, I agree that a course like this would be best suited to a producer but then you would assume a producer would know how to assess the potential of a script and what it would take to realise the script. A student of film should stay away from courses like this, not just because of the cost, but they should have a sound grounding in the ‘industry’ of film making. Cheers

By: David Di Muro

David Di Muro — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:20:56 +0000

In reply to Margaret.

Hi Margaret,
I assume you meant “assess” not “asses” :)

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:15:32 +0000

Totally agreed!

The amount of money they are asking for 12 hours is insane! The best way to learn how to both asses better and to write better scripts is to simply read, read, read and read scripts, as much as you possibly can. You will hear that in any film school and from all the great script gurus. And you don’t have to pay any money to do that.

I think most of the potential students for that course would be better served by using that money to support themselves while doing an unpaid internship at a production company. They will be handed piles of scripts to read daily, and will learn pretty quickly the difference between stories worth developing and stories that belong in the circular file. It’s probably what all the gurus and screenwriters they admire most did with the early part of their careers. And the odds are pretty good they didn’t take a single course to learn how to do it first.