Reading report or script coverage : What Now?
- May 22
- 2 min read
You’ve received a reading report or a script coverage. Three pages. Or ten. Insightful comments. A clear diagnosis. And yet something doesn’t sit right.
You read. You highlight. You hesitate. You don’t necessarily agree, but there’s no one to discuss it with. Where do you start? What really matters?
You find yourself a bit lost, a bit unsure. As if you’ve been pushed into a dark, shady corner. And now you feel the urge to escape.
My experience as a film editor taught me how fruitful real exchange, dialogue, and the clash of ideas can be. Working with Noëlle Deschamps, founder of éQuinoxe and its screenwriting workshops, confirmed it. Today, this is the dynamic I bring to writers.
Above all, I need to understand what is going on in the writer’s mind, and in the screenplay’s.
I offer a proper working session. Half a day of consultation. So you no longer waste time.
When I prepare the session, I take notes… which often end with question marks.
Because I can’t be sure of anything until I’ve explored it with the writer. I need to understand what’s going on in their head, and in the script’s. To grasp its tensions, its instincts, its points of view...
I don’t impose a ready-made framework. I look for the point of balance, the obvious truth.
I immerse myself, then I step back. I listen. I move back and forth between the intention and the page, until they are in sync. To find how to develop, strengthen, refine, clarify.
I get things moving again...
Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump…
(Yes, that’s the sound of a beating heart )
And you regain clarity, and excitement.
Déborah Braun / 90pages
Script doctor
