A script doctor is indispensable for every film maker. Especially here in Nigeria that a film maker wears different hats, including the screenwriter’s hat. The original screenplay can be yours but you need the owl-like eye of a script doctor to chisel the screenplay into shape.
A Script Doctor always know for sure what is wrong with a screenplay and exactly how to fix it.
This skill comes with years of practice, experience and one other thing that is innate and special. It is a can-fix attitude. It is a leadership skill, a problem-solving skill, one that believes it can save the world if necessary.
Long years of writing screenplay is inadequate is to become a script doctor really. Because once a writer is judgmental and sentimental by nature it could get in the way of treating diseased screenplays even if the writer has been writing for years on end.
That said, then how do you find a good script doctor?
Two ways to go about it are; one, employ a recommended one. Two, test or interview the writer; the same way Donald Trump will do before hiring an apprentice.
As a film maker, wear all the hats you need to if necessary but get a script Doctor to give your screenplay the humph it deserves.
As a film maker, wear all the hats you need to if necessary but get a script Doctor to give your screenplay the humph it deserves.
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