Goldsmith Productions Services - Script writing, Script reading & Film making

Watch 'Helping' on the BBC website:-

Watch Short Film HELPING on the BBC Website

Read Scripts:-

Extras Falcon Spies Resume from Hibernation Speechless

Script Reading & Writing Services

Script Reading service

A second opinion on scripts is essential. It is not easy to 'let your script go' and to issue it to a third party. But script development generally benefits from other people reading your script. I spent a year script mentoring one screenplay with a script analyst, and whilst I disagreed with some of the comments made, the majority of the comments were true and valid, and made me look at the script in a new and different way.

I offer a script reading service, breaking down the scripts under the headings of story structure, character, dialogue, making suggestions where the script might be improved. The rates listed below represents read and feedback.

Rates:
Full-length screenplays 90-120 pages - £150 for reading and written analysis.
Screenplays up to 60 pages - £100 for reading and written analysis.
Short screenplays up to 20 pages - £50 for reading and written analysis.

General script writing tips

There are any number of books on the market about script-writing, but 'The Screenwriter’s Bible' (click here to view/buy at Amazon) by David Trottier remains for me the best I have come across, and is what it says it is, a Bible, and everything you need to know about script format.

Reading scripts

It is important for a writer to read as many scripts as possible. It helps to understand how a script is developed, at what points 'changes occur' in the story, movement and direction. Examples of the availability of on-line scripts are as follows:-

See a selection of my film scripts attached in PDF format.

Extras (10-12 mins) DOWNLOAD PDF
Jessie's Father spends his money on hookers, and says he can't afford money for extras for Jessie's school holiday trip to France. A confrontation with Jessie brings his life into focus.
Speechless (10-12 mins) DOWNLOAD PDF
Jack stammers and reading lessons at school are a nightmare. When Jane the daughter of a US film director joins the school, the boys in class are speechless at how attractive she is. Much to Jack’s delight she is as speechless as him.
Falcon Spies (95 mins) DOWNLOAD PDF
Anneka an eighteen-year-old supermarket checkout girl sexually assaulted by her Father as a child meets Simon, an older man devastated by the split from his wife. Anneka helps him through his emotional turmoil, and in doing so learns to love life and herself again.
Resume from Hibernation (95 mins) DOWNLOAD PDF
Janice promised her terminally ill Father he'd see his grandson before he dies. But Janice is not pregnant. She 'padded' herself, pretending that she was. On a Sunday afternoon in London, Lawrence, older, estranged from his wife, stops Janice from 'borrowing' a baby and suggests something other than 'padding'.