What are evaluations?
An evaluation includes written and numerical feedback delivered by a professional reader about a project.
This feedback is concise and thorough and includes a reader-crafted pitch/logline description, targeted feedback on your project's strengths and weaknesses, as well as an overview of how your project might fare if circulated in its relevant industry.
The numerical scores reflect a reader's opinion on the strength of the project's various components, as well as its overall industry viability. The information connected to evaluations is used across the Black List ecosystem and represents some of the data used to index a project in our searchable database.
The Black List offers evaluation services led by a diverse and professional reader pool to best duplicate the type of feedback a writer might get if they were cold-contacting agencies, production offices, or book agents. It's a style of feedback geared toward identifying how a given project might be received within the industry in its current form. With these circumstances in mind, it's very rare to see a project receive universally similar feedback, simply because of the diversity of opinions, preferences, and expectations that different readers hold.
Any writer with an actively hosted, online project on the Black List website can purchase an evaluation. We encourage writers to ensure their preferred draft is online before pursuing an evaluation, as revisions cannot be uploaded once an evaluation is underway.