Doctor / Script Doctoring
When advice is no longer enough.
Hands-on intervention in agreed areas, turning story diagnosis into revised screenplay material.
Script Doctoring
What the work
looks like.
Haz enters the screenplay to implement agreed solutions. The work may include restructuring sequences; moving, combining or removing scenes; writing new scenes; rebuilding arcs; strengthening escalation, dialogue and subtext; reducing exposition; developing performance and visual storytelling; or reworking the climax and ending. The intervention is agreed before rewriting begins.
Best for
Projects requiring active structural, character, scene or dialogue work rather than another round of notes.
What you receive
Clear deliverables.
A useful next step.
- 01Script Doctoring Assessment
- 02Intervention Plan identifying what will change and why
- 03Revised screenplay pages or full screenplay, according to scope
- 04Clean revised version and a marked or revision version where appropriate
- 05Doctoring Change Log or Development Notes
- 06Refinement rounds until the client is satisfied, within the agreed scope
Scope & boundaries
Identified story problems become actual screenplay solutions.
Haz actively participates in rewriting. The client remains the project’s creative owner and final decision-maker. Additional substantial rewrites require a new scope.
Fees & payment
Fees are provided following an enquiry and confirmation of the appropriate scope.
Normally 40% to commence; 30% when the Doctoring Plan is agreed and rewriting begins; 30% before final revised files.
Initial Evaluation is required before a bespoke quotation. The exact evaluation fee is confirmed before review. It is credited in full if the project is commissioned within 30 days.
Project scope & working termsThe purpose
Identified story problems become actual screenplay solutions.
Discuss script doctoringDevelopment strengthens the work; it does not guarantee financing, representation, production, sales, awards or festival selection.