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Reading for a Living: How to Be a Professional Story Analyst for Film and Television | 
 enlarge | Author: Terri Katahn
Publisher: Blue Arrow Books
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 201328
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 177
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0962580392
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430233023
EAN: 9780962580390
ASIN: 0962580392
Publication Date: August 1990
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Condition: Some wear on cover and pages, ex-library, some stamps and stickers on book, some spine creases.
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Product Description
What makes a movie great? Perhaps even more crucial, who decides what makes it great - before it gets made into a movie? The entertainment industry's top executive decision-makers are always looking for a great story. But they don't have time to read every screenplay or book themselves. Instead, they often rely on story analysts, or readers, who become the first to read and pass judgment on submissions. Story analysts' reports ("coverages") help form a basis for executive decisions. Now, for the first time, training for readers is easy to find, easy to do, low cost, and comprehensive. READING FOR A LIVING reveals all: how to get the job and how to do it well. READERS: Learn what makes a story great. Earn extra income while pursuing another career. Gain valuable insight into the industry. Train to be a story editor, Director of Development, or other high-level executive. DEVELOPMENT EXECS: Make sure your readers are educated. Review your own story analysis skills. WRITERS: Find out what readers and executives want. Review your fundamental writing skills.
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Coverage for Reading for a Living: Desperately in need of an update! September 14, 2008
The foreward by the author claims that he thought about doing an updated version of the book, but he decided not to, because everything is pretty much valid.
Then he goes on with his kick off advice ...... get a typewriter, ribbons, dot matrix printers......yep....very 1980's.
Dude! Update your book! This sucker in its current format is 2 decades old. Come on! Take some pride in it!
 PLEASE UPDATE THE BOOK, no one even knows what a word processor is anymore and no you can not back up your work on floppy disc October 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is rather elementary and really out dated. He has a chapter about buying a word processor. If you have absolutely no idea what written script coverage is then it will give you an idea but other then that, forget it.
 Start reading for a living! February 26, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
A unique book to break into script and book reading for a living. A very useful tool for people who want to break into this business. A practical guide to the business of story analysis. With lots of ideas, resources and tips.Needs updating! By Thei Zervaki
author of Globalize, Localize, Translate
See your script from another P.O.V. February 27, 2001
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Whether you imagine YOURSELF "reading for a living" or not, this book will help you see from the READER's perspective what makes a good script. Your script will likely not become a motion pictures without having first passed through the hands of a reader. With that said, how can you afford not to know what the reader expects of a well-crafted story? If you can't get the reader to at least give your script a "consider", then all your painstaking effort is a loss. This book offers some interesting advice.
The Info you need to be a reader March 28, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
While somewhat dated, this title offers a lot of information that will help you get a job as a writer. It shows you great techniques on how to critique screenplays, as well as how to "grade" the scripts and format coverage.
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