Re-read you screenplay and ask these questions : -

1. Imagine the trailer. Is the concept marketable?

2. Is the premise naturally intriguing -- or just average, demanding perfect execution?

3. Who is the target audience? Would your parents go see it?

4. Does your story deal with the most important events in the lives of your characters?

5. If you're writing about a fantasy-come-true, turn it quickly into a nightmare-that-won't-end.

6. Does the screenplay create questions: will he find out the truth? Did she do it? Will they fall in love? Has a strong 'need to know' hook been built into the story?

7. Is the concept original?

8. Is there a goal? Is there pacing? Does it build?

9. Begin with a punch, end with a flurry.

10. It is funny, scary, or thrilling? All three?

11. What does the story have that the audience can't get from real life?

12. What's at stake? Life and death situations are the most dramatic. Does the concept create the potential for the characters lives to be changed?

13. What are the obstacles? Is there a sufficient challenge for our heroes?

14. What is the screenplay trying to say, and is it worth trying to say it?

15. Does the story transport the audience?

16. Is the screenplay predictable? There should be surprises and reversals within the major plot, and also within individual scenes.

17. Once the parameters of the film's reality are established, they must not be violated. Limitations call for interesting solutions.

18. Is there a decisive, inevitable, set-up ending that is nonetheless unexpected? (This is not easy to do!)

19. Is it believable? Realistic?

20. Is there a strong emotion -- heart -- at the center of the story? Avoid mean-spirited storylines.


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