Instead of reading a 120-page screenplay, they can instead read a 3-4 page script coverage, spending 5 minutes instead of 2 hours to determine whether a screenplay is worth pursuing - either to buy, option, produce, or attach talent to. Script coverage is the essential document that busy producers, name actors, directors, and studio execs all read instead of reading the actual script.
Whether that script reader is at a small production company or a major studio, the service she provides is essentially the same: Reading screenplays and teleplays (and sometimes novels) and writing script coverage. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. And without reading the material submitted to them, they can’t determine which ones are marketable, artistically credible, and/or simply worth pursuing. Without script readers, filmmakers, studios, small production companies, actors, agents, directors, and producers couldn’t possibly read all the spec scripts and other material submitted to them. Coverage of a screenplay is typically written by what are called script readers. Script coverage is a “book report” on a screenplay, typically 3-4 pages in length and consists of three parts: (a) the basic information about the script (author, genre, page count, logline, etc.), (b) a brief synopsis of the film, and (c) a comments / feedback section, containing a script reader’s comments on the screenplay’s strengths and weaknesses.
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