The road from script to fundable
Most filmmakers don't need everything at once. Development is a ladder — you climb only as far as your project needs, and every rung credits toward the next one.
STEP 1
The Read — find out what you have.
Send us your script. You get one-sheet coverage, delivered fast: a logline you can say out loud without apologizing, a synopsis, the bones of the script — what we see in it and what we love about it — and the production red flags: continuity problems, structural issues, and anything in these pages that will hurt you on the day. The cheapest way to find out what you actually have.
STEP 2
Blueprint — understand and price it.
Everything in The Read, plus a full script breakdown — every scene, character, prop and location, organized — a blank budget with every line item that will cost you money, and an estimated budget at union and standard rates. This is the spine. It's the moment your movie stops being a document and starts being a plan.
STEP 3
Workbook — for the film you're actually going to make.
Everything in Blueprint, plus character bios, location bios and prop bios built for production use, and the director's working material — what's inside the script and how to go about it.
STEP 4
Production — take it to set.
Everything in Workbook, plus a treatment and a shot list with basic coverage for every scene — the thing your schedule and your setups are actually built on. This is the financing-ready package.
Every tier credits into the next. You are always paying the difference, never paying twice. Credit is good for 60 days from delivery.
If your idea isn't a script yet
Development sessions are working hours with a produced writer-director — structure, character, act breaks, the scene you keep rewriting, or the idea that isn't on the page yet. Straightforward, on the phone or in the room. Available as single hours or a block of three.
If you do want notes
We don't tell you whether your movie is good. No pass, no consider, no recommend — that's a taste business, and we're a service business. But if you want reactions, Roundtable Coverage gives you three readers, three sets of coverage, plus a development recommendation drawn from all three — so you see what's actually landing and what only landed for one person.
The premium add-on: the Director's Prep Book
Every scene of your movie, laid out so you can think about it before you're standing on the day with 40 people waiting. Intention for each character in each scene. What the scene is trying to accomplish. The most important thing in it. The questions a director should have answered before the truck arrives — with the space to answer them in your own hand. This is the document we built for our own feature, and it is the difference between showing up with a shot list and showing up with a movie in your head. Added to a Workbook or Production package.
Services & pricing
Priced by page count — a short film shouldn't pay feature prices.
The Read
$29
$49
$79
$109
Blueprint
$195
$295
$450
$595
Workbook
$395
$595
$900
$1,195
Production
$695
$1,095
$1,650
$2,150
Package
Micro Short (under 20 pp)
Short (20-60 pp)
Feature (60-150 pp)
Epic Feature (over 150 pp)
Director's Prep Book: +$450, added to a Workbook or Production package.
Roundtable Coverage: $249 for a feature, scaled for shorts.
Development sessions: $100/hour, block of three for $270.