Reading scripts can be a great way for aspiring writers get a sense of history and character. Providing analyses of other writer scripts can help and reader knows what studios and production companies are looking for in scripts, which can only serve to strengthen their own projects.
To save the extra money on the duties of assistant, I have plunged frequently into script reading for various production companies and agencies. The work was consistent, as there is no shortage of scripts being submitted to agencies and studios for examination. As a general rule, you get a day or two to read and review the script and get paid somewhere in the vicinity of $50 per script. While money is not great, it is not a bad way to spend a few hours, especially with the hope that you build strong relationships with various companies below level leaders (dealing with readers is usually a job for low level managers or assistants). Another advantage is the ability to see what type of scripts are making the rounds around the city, and a reader, you really begin to learn the sensibilities of the companies of different and what they like.
If this is an excellent job on the side, the major disadvantage is that read you lots of material which, in simple terms, not very good. Many scripts, especially those submitted to agencies, people who have no representation is or who are searching for. Without representation are generally, but not always, clumsy, and it shows in their writings. The vast majority of the scripts, I would say something like 85-95% of the scripts, deserve a grade of "pass", which means the company receiving the script must spend on it. Very rarely do you see a good script that you can tell the company to consider. The rarest scripts are those that you recommend. If, as a drive that recommend you a script, you better be able to defend the script against the criticism of high level executives, because they will want to read the script immediately and want to know exactly why you recommend. If they do not agree, it is the easiest way to lose your job as a reader. If you need to be very demanding on the notes that you disclose in the scripts that you read.
Although most of the scripts that you can read it as a drive is not good, it nevertheless dissecting why it is not good and that the script has done poorly. In this way, being a reader is one of the things smarter as a writer or an aspiring Executive of development can do.
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