Innovative and Effective Services to Strengthen Your Story
Actionable Insights to Advance Your Career
The Story Doctor is IN.
What to Expect:
In-depth discussion providing constructive feedback and discovering answers that strengthen the story and your marketing materials. This isn’t coverage but a conversation about your goals for the story, as well as the project, and how to achieve them. This is like working closely with a producer on a project. We explore options and find solutions to problems. My goals are to bring out the best in your concept, maximize your strengths, enhance your story, and boost your project’s marketability.
I work with screenwriters and television writers, as well as on fiction and nonfiction projects. Contact us for a custom quote on novels and nonfiction. Our work is collaborative, focused and practical, customized to ensure you make progress. Expect honesty.
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15 minutes for free. Contact me or email info@bigbigideas.com
Loglines
The Logline Booster Shot – $45
Your logline is the single most important sentence you will ever write. It is your best tool for gaining industry attention and advancing your career. You’ve put a lot into your script, but your logline deserves the same care and attention. Invest in moving your project forward.
Includes a 20-minute phone consultation, as well as a 5-minute polish on the final version to hone your logline to perfection. This is the big boost you need to persuade pros to read your material. Or use as a powerful opportunity to focus and hone before you write.
Query Letters – Scripts, TV Series & Novels
The Query Letter Cure – $120
Submit your one-page Query Letter and meet with the Doctor for a thorough 30-minute exam. Does your logline grab interest? Have you conveyed the tone? Does your synopsis tantalize? Have you convinced us you’re a talented writer?
Following our first consultation, rewrite and revise, then have a 15-minute Follow Up Appointment to examine changes, test for effectiveness, strengthen weak spots and ensure your query is ready for the pros. The Prescription for a Query that gets results!
“With her expertise in working with me develop a professional query letter, Barri helped me get my feature script in the hands of production companies, management companies, and even, yes, a major motion picture studio just mere months after graduating film school. In a very tough business to succeed, Barri’s coaching helps even the odds. I’m confident I can succeed with Barri Evins in my corner.”
Andy Stewart, Los Angeles, CA
Pitches
Pitch Doctor Consult – $100
Submit a one-page Pitch and then set a 45-minute phone appointment packed with constructive feedback on your pitch and your story. Feedback on Pitches LIVE via Skype. Invaluable prep for PitchFests, Industry Meetings and Elevator Encounters!
Pitch Doctor Combo – $145
The Consult plus submit a revised version for a 30-minute Follow Up phone consultation or live via Skype Pitch for input on changes and polishing to help you hit a home run
“Barri prepared me for so many possible pitch scenarios… a lot harder than real life perhaps. But afterwards I felt I could handle anything that anyone might throw at me.”
Vincent Ho, Atlanta, GA
Screenplay Consultations
Story Doctor Consultation – $475
Submit your screenplay and receive an in-depth, up to Two Hours of Phone Consultation focused on constructive feedback, going over notes and working with you to come to answers that strengthen the story.
This isn’t coverage, but a personal conversation about your goals for the story, as well as the project and how to achieve them. We’ll discuss not only what’s working, but what needs work, and why and how to fix it. This experience replicates working closely with a dedicated producer on a project.
My goal is making your story strong and marketable. It’s interactive, focused, and practical.
“Thanks for your time, honesty and quality feedback! After speaking with you, not only did I realize how much sooner I should have come to you, but how much better my story will be once I’ve implemented your suggestions. Your insight is amazing and the work you do to help writers realize their vision is unparalleled. Thanks for your tireless effort in making better writers and in turn, better stories! Please never stop. You rock!”
Jeffrey Wright, Los Angeles, CA,
worked with Barri on three scripts
The Script Prescription – $895
An invaluable 3-step process to prepare your script for industry eyes.
Receive an hour and a half Story Doctor’s Consultation on your screenplay, plus two Follow Up Appointments on this script to keep you on track. After our initial consultation you will have the opportunity to implement the notes, submit a revised draft and then have a second, hour-long Consultation to examine how new choices are working and what still needs attention. When your next revision is ready, we will have a third call, a 45-minute Check Up to hone and polish. Get your own Professional Mentor to ensure your project is strong and healthy. Additional hours available at a discounted rate.
“Barri helped me take my confused story with underwhelming characters and a plot that didn’t come together to crafting a concise screenplay that rocks. The Script Prescription is the way to go, because you get three steps of consultation. Barri doesn’t hold your hand – she guides you with honesty.”
Gordon Oliva, Danbury , CT
Payment Options
See Consultation Extras Below for Rush Services and Additional Pages
NOTE: Once you have purchased a consultation, email us at info@bigbigideas.com with the medium, title and genre of your project. Within 1 to 2 business days, you will receive a custom Letter of Engagement outlining how we will work together. Read, sign and return with your material, and our work together can begin!
MORE PAYMENT OPTIONS:
Please contact us for info on how to pay via Zelle, Venmo, wire transfer or personal check. We’re happy to accept these. Just ask: info@bigbigideas.com
Foreign transaction fees may apply.
PayPal Payments
Consultation Extras
Script Consultations Additional Pages – Scripts over 125 pages will be charged at the rate of $2.50 per page.
Additional Time on Consultations – Should you want a longer Consultation, or should your call run over by more than 15 minutes of the scheduled time, additional hours on the Consultation will be billed at the discounted rate of $150 per hour, in 15 minute increments. $37.50
While we make every effort to respond to each client promptly, rush services are available:
Rush Charge on Pitch or Query Consultation Less Than Three Business Days – Rush turnaround is available to meet your needs. $25
Rush Charge on Script Consultation Less Than Five Business Days – Rush turnaround is available to meet your needs. $50
Unique Screenwriting Tool Now Available!
Big Ideas Electronic Structure Template and Bonus Handout “Structure: A New Perspective” – $7.50
Previously available exclusively to Big Ideas Seminar students, now you can purchase the Big Ideas Structure Template. This Word document enables you to both quickly grasp the heart of your story – from character arc to theme – and discover a strong structure with the ease of filing in the blanks and cutting and pasting. Perfect for collaboration as a Google doc.
Included as a bonus is the Big Ideas Structure A New Perspective Handout, that elaborates on each major plot point and clarifies the concepts to ensure you understand their meaning and how they work within the structure framework. You will receive the Template and the Handout via email – within 24 to 48 hours – to ensure you have the most current version.
PayPal Payments
The Deck Doc
TV Bibles, Decks & Pilots
Comprehensive work on the developing, revising and honing television series decks, bibles and pilots, as well as adapting novels for series.
Contact us for a Custom Quote designed exclusively for you. info@bigbigideas.com
“Thank you for your brutal honesty today. I needed to hear it. I love and respect that about you. It has fueled my fire to take a closer look at how to improve the series.”
Shawna Baca, Los Angeles, CA
TV Deck & Pilot Package
Mentorship Packages
Over the course of my career, I’ve learned that, just as each story is different, every writer has a unique approach.
My challenge is to connect with you creatively in a way that empowers you, excites you, and motivates you to get your story to the next level. It’s never the same for any two writers, so our work will always be tailored to fit you, not the other way around.
Working with me as your mentor isn’t about receiving impersonal written coverage. This is an interactive and dynamic conversation about your goals for your story, as well as moving your project forward in the marketplace, and how you can achieve them. This is like working closely with a producer on a project. Together, we explore options, highlight your strengths, and discover solutions, plus push your project forward. Our work will be effective, practical, and collaborative.
I promise to deliver inspiring advice, constructive critique, and endless encouragement. Expect honesty about both what works and where your material could be strengthened.
Contact us to set a call, discuss your needs, and begin your mentorship.
Concierge Service: Doctor On Call – $895
When the prescription calls for a Specialist, you want the personalized service of a Professional Mentor. Five hours plus one free script read. Scripts, loglines, queries, pitches, outlines, and concept development, all available to meet your every need.
Personalized Mentorship Package – Support at Every Phase – from $600 renewable
Whether you’re starting from an outline, or you have a draft that needs to be reworked or rebuilt from the ground up, or you want to elevate your script on every level from execution to engaging readers, and when you’re ready to take your project out into the world – this is the package for you!
For writers seeking comprehensive and all-inclusive support, I offer a Private Mentorship Package at a special discounted rate. This includes all forms of advice and input, from skill building exercises to career advice and industry insights from representation to marketing your project. Due to the intensive nature of our work together, this package is available to a limited number of writers, and offered only to those who have had a prior consultation or a conversation with me to ensure our work together will be effective and impactful.
This package includes:
- Complimentary Tools
- Instructive In-depth Notes
- Annotated Drafts with Detailed Notes
- Invaluable Industry Insights: Getting Noticed, including Navigating Contests, All Aspects of Marketing, and Getting Repped
- Phone Consultations – Sessions Up to Two Hours Each
Ask for more info or set a call to chat and see if this customized mentorship package is a fit for you.
Click the download button for Consults PDF for more information about packages and all the extras included.
“Having Barri as my mentor at each stage of developing, writing, and marketing my script had a big payoff. My passion project now has a producer, a buyer, and an iconic director who asked me to be by his side on the set. My second project is headed toward production. It’s a dream come true.”
Bob Bland, Canyon Country, CA
Mentorship Package
“Barri is an amazing mentor! Her wealth of experience and skill makes her insightful and inspiring. Her method helped me get to what I really wanted to say and taught me how to use structure and visual storytelling. Working with Barri has been essential for my development as a screenwriter.”
Elena Wagoner, Los Angeles, CA
Mentorship Package
“I started working with Barri as a novice who had never completed a script. Barri’s mentorship helped me understand the importance of building a strong foundation, and then provided resources and tools to help me fill in the gaps. Now I have a clear vision for my script and am stronger as a writer.”
Tonya Zuniga, Sacramento, CA
Mentorship Package
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