What is Required for You to Sell a Script in the Current Marketplace?

I was extremely fortunate to be taught how to test my scripts when I was starting out as a writer. It was the main reason I was able to launch a career so early on, and why I was able to sustain that career for so long.

If you’re serious about a career, it’s vital you learn how to properly test your scripts in order to determine what “movie” or “tv show” plays in the heads of the readers (with regards to characters, story and tone) and how it’s different from the “movie” or “tv show” you intended them to experience.

Doing this will greatly help you become far more efficient and successful in your rewrites, as well as letting you know exactly when a script is ready to take to market, preventing you from getting unnecessary rejections.

Professional writers always test their scripts before showing them to anyone in the industry. And so should you. You will have complete access to this training for one year.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to Script Testing

  • 2

    Chapter 1: Start Your Training

    • Start Your Training

    • Start Your Training Questions
  • 3

    Chapter 2: Self-Testing Your Script

    • Self-Testing Your Script

    • Questions for Self-Testing Your Script

    • Decision Time
  • 4

    Chapter 3: Setting Yourself Up For Success

    • The Best Way to Test Your Script

  • 5

    Chapter 4: Testing Your Script with Readers

    • Script Testing Questions

    • Please Download the Testing Questions
  • 6

    Chapter 5: Next Steps

    • Improving Your Script

    • Extra Help

    • Additional Resources

Meet the Instructor

Corey Mandell

Corey Mandell is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Wolfgang Petersen, Harrison Ford, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, John Travolta, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Family, Working Title, Paramount, Live Planet, Beacon Films, Touchstone, Trilogy, Radiant, Kopelson Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures. Corey's students and clients have gone on to sell original scripts and pitches to Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Disney, Fox, MGM, A24, Nickelodeon, Universal, Showtime, NBC, AMC, MTV, Amazon, FX, Hulu, Netflix and HBO. Others have been staffed on such shows as Stranger Things, Orange Is the New Black, Community, Big Little Lies, This is Us, The Walking Dead, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, You’re the Worst, Pretty Little Liars, Mozart in the Jungle, The Mentalist, BoJack Horseman, Justified, The Blacklist, Jane the Virgin, Schitt’s Creek, The Leftovers, Mr. Robot and Succession.

What Others Are Saying

“If you want to hone your craft as a professional writer, Corey provides the comprehensive training and clear cut techniques to do so. I’ve found his workshops to be invaluable.”

Steve Zissis, co-creator of HBO's Togetherness

“As someone with years of experience in the development world, I found Corey’s class to be absolutely valuable. If you are committed to becoming a better writer, he can definitely help you.”

Jennifer Soskin, Director of Development and Production at HBO Films

“No one teaches what Corey does, not even the best graduate programs. The skills I learned from him are one of the main reasons I launched my career.”

Tamara Carter, Staff writer on HBO's The Leftovers and Writer/Producer on FX's upcoming, Freshwater

“After finishing Corey's class I was finally able to land an agent and my first produced writing credit. I still consult the notes from Corey's class in my writing as they've been indispensable.”

Keith Schreier, Staff Writer on The Good Wife and Justified

Script Testing

Your Secret Weapon for Success

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