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When you first join Slated’s community, you’ll create a detailed profile that includes your interests and resume of work done in the entertainment industry. Additionally, Slated Analytics will generate your Credits Score, which enables the platform to match you with the right projects, talent, financing & sales.
You can list as many of your projects in development and production as you wish, and control each one’s privacy settings. Each project profile helps you put your best foot forward to the industry and maximize its chances of success. Additionally, Slated Analytics will create a Team Score for your project, a key component of its Project Score, which provides at-a-glance insight for talent, investors, sales agents and distributors.
Slated provides you the ability to message to your entire team’s network. So if you have ten team members on a given project, each with 100 people in their network, you can reach 1000 Slated members on the site with the click of a button. Plus, our tools make it easy to share your updates with your social networks.
Want to work with the best in the business? Slated’s advanced searching tools allow you to look for, or be discovered by, the exact people who match your needs and interests, or those who might be a good fit for your projects.
There are three ways to get in touch with people via Slated. The most subtle is to “track” them - the person will receive a notification that you are following their updates on the site. If they choose to track you in return, you may message each other freely. Even if they don’t track you back, you may use the second option: Direct private messaging (assuming your Credits Score matches their privacy settings). The third option is to request an introduction from a mutual contact - you will be notified automatically if you know anyone in common.
Filmonomics is Slated’s education service, providing insights into the latest trends, challenges, and solutions in the world of independent film packaging, financing and sales. We schedule frequent in person events and webinars that you can attend throughout the year, with video highlights published on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook in case you can’t attend. All of our content feeds into our searchable Knowledge Center, giving you access to an ever-growing library of written articles, white papers, and videos.
Every Script Analysis bolsters your project by demonstrating your professionalism and market awareness. Third party, objective analysis serves as a confidence boost for your prospective financing and distribution partners, providing concrete reasons to join your project. And a prized few will stand out even more in industry eyes: The higher your Script Score, the stronger the signal to Slated’s community of talent, financing, sales and other industry professionals.
Slated Analytics' Script Analysis service has been calibrated through the process of analyzing hundreds of produced feature-length screenplays. Additionally, their professional readers go through a rigorous training program to ensure they conform to the highest standards in the industry. Each script is quantified and qualified across 11 different criteria, and averaged across three readers’ independent evaluations. You and your team can feel confident your project has been professionally and objectively vetted before going into production.
Don’t wait until it’s too late to present the best possible version of your project -- armed with Slated Analytics’ Script Analysis, you’ll be able to make improvements when it still matters. And when 3 readers independently cite the same issues with your material, you’ll know exactly what to work on. While the revision process is not always linear, in some cases, we have seen Script Scores increase by as much as 20 points across multiple submissions.
Your coverage is 100% confidential unless you choose to make it visible. When you’re ready to share it, you can select which investors and other industry professionals have permission to see it.
As you can see from the graph, Slated’s internal data indicates that projects with higher Project Scores tend to receive more introductions to investors, talent and industry partners. So keep boosting your team, improving your script and adjusting your financials - it makes a real difference.
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Slated Analytics’ evaluation team is comprised of seasoned readers, each of whom has evaluated produced and unproduced scripts at agencies, management companies, development departments and in other professional environments prior to servicing Slated Analytics’ clients. Each reader is well versed in recent market material and goes through a thorough training process prior to being approved to review Slated members’ material. The readers are comprised of both men and women from varied backgrounds and age groups. Readers are assigned on a double-blind randomized basis, they don't know who the submitters of the projects are, and the submitters don't know who the readers are, in order to avoid any selection bias.
There's no getting around the fact that story analysis is inherently subjective. Slated Analytics designed its process to be as objective as possible by applying the same set of rigorous standards to every script, based on the criteria that buyers and reps themselves use to judge material. No matter how ‘original’ a script may appear to the casual observer, the industry will instinctively look for meaningful comparisons when evaluating its storytelling elements. Slated Analytics’ story analysis anticipates that industry evaluation process for your benefit as writers, filmmakers and producers.
Whether the coverage lauds your project or recommends further development, the points made will reference tried-and-true storytelling principles and cite specific examples (with page numbers) from the script. And either way, displaying your Script Analysis to potential investors and partners is completely up to you. At the very least, the analysis will help you determine the most meaningful comparisons for your script and provide you with an early read on the industry’s likely response. After all, forewarned is forearmed.
As a general guideline, turnaround times are:
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Coverage is delivered on a first come/first served basis, and if the queue is particularly full it may take longer than usual. Estimated delivery dates will be provided at the time you purchase your Script Analysis.
Nope. Listing projects on Slated is free, as is networking with other members and our tools to help get your project discovered within the site.
Slated Analytics’ Project Score is based on the three main things investors want to know about every project:
- Team Strength - the Team Score is a measure of how reliable your project’s team when it comes to executing on the creative vision and finance plan;
- Script Strength - the Script Score is a measure of your script’s creative value;
- Financial Strength - your Financial Score indicates your project’s financial prospects in the prevailing marketplace.
Slated Analytics’ Team Score, Script Score and Financial Score are all on a 100 point scale:
- Team Score is based on the individual scores of the people each person attached to your project, as well as your distributor or film sales agent (as applicable).
- Script Score incorporates each of the 11 ratings the readers have given your screenplay.
- Financial Score is a quotient that is calculated around your project’s costs and global revenue projections.
By contrast, the 11 individual scores on your Script Analysis use two scales:
- The Overall Rating uses the traditional Pass / Consider / Recommend spectrum, with the addition of Strong Pass and Strong Recommend for exceptionally weak or strong scripts, respectively.
- The 10 individual ratings (Dialogue, Structure, Character, etc.) are on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being highest.
In a nutshell, your Script Score indicates the quality of your screenplay: The higher your score, the better. Three readers read each script thoroughly, then provide an Overall rating on the "Pass / Consider / Recommend" spectrum and assign numerical scores for ten individual attributes of the material. The scoring formula weights some categories more heavily than others. Each reader's ratings are converted into a score on a scale of 1 to 100, which are then combined to determine the Script Score.
Read more about the ten individual attributes we evaluate for each script , as well as the questions the readers consider for each element.
Your Script Analysis is 100% confidential unless you choose to make it visible on your project profile page. Visibility settings for your project’s coverage are separate from your page’s overall settings, so you can choose to share it with specific people; all Slated investors; or the entire Slated community.
While the exact weighting of each component score within the Project Score is based on a shifting matrix of variables, your project’s Project Score will definitely increase when your Script Analysis is delivered. The very fact that you have submitted your project for rigorous evaluation demonstrates professionalism and market awareness, both of which send out strong industry signals. How much your Score increases depends on the quality of your script.
Every Financial Analysis bolsters your project by demonstrating your professionalism and market awareness. Third party, objective analysis serves as a confidence boost for your prospective financing and distribution partners, providing concrete reasons to join your project. And a prized few will stand out even more in industry eyes: The higher the ratio of your projected worldwide revenue to your production and marketing spend, the stronger the signal to Slated’s community of creative talent and financing professionals.
Slated Analytics’ financial projections have been derived by analyzing - in minutest detail - the performance factors of more than 10,000 released films. By arming yourself with the most meaningful comparative data, you and your team will have the earliest intelligence on what to expect from the marketplace at every stage in your project’s development cycle, from packaging to financing to sales.
Your project’s Financial Analysis report includes data-driven projections and sensitivity analyses for the key elements that impact revenue: Production and marketing budgets, release window and theater counts, and Team and Script Strength scores.
Your report is 100% confidential unless you choose to make it visible. When you’re ready to share it, you can select which investors and other industry professionals have permission to see it.
As you can see from the graph, Slated’s internal data indicates that projects with higher Project Scores tend to receive more introductions to investors, talent and industry partners. So keep boosting your team, improving your script and adjusting your financials - it makes a real difference.
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By "Financial Analysis" we mean revenue projections for your film in all the major revenue streams:
- Worldwide Theatrical Box Office
- Worldwide Free and Pay TV
- Worldwide Video (All Formats*)
Currently, there isn’t enough publicly available data on streaming and VOD revenue to break it out into its own bucket. Slated will continue crowdsourcing that data from its community, though, and Slated Analytics will include it in the “worldwide video” model until it is large enough to become it’s own projection.
In addition to forecasting your project’s worldwide commercial potential based on your project’s existing profile, Slated Analytics also runs sensitivity analyses so you can see what your project’s potential North American box office receipts would be in other scenarios. Those sensitivity analyses include:
- Release Pattern (for 10 different theater counts)
- Team Score (showing the effect of your project’s Team Score)
- Script Score (showing the effect of your project’s Script Score)
- Production Budget (for 10 different budget levels)
- Marketing Spend (for 8 different budget levels)
- Release Window (for all 12 calendar months)
Slated Analytics’ team of data scientists is anchored by a Ph.D. in Statistics whose experience includes years of “Moneyball”-style player performance prediction models for one of the premiere teams in Major League Baseball. Slated Analytics’ team constantly reviews and improve its models to ensure their accuracy and efficacy in a constantly evolving market.
Your Financial Analysis report is 100% confidential unless you choose to make it visible on your project profile page.
Visibility settings for your project’s projections are separate from your page’s overall settings, so you can choose to share it with all, select, or no Slated investors.
Slated Analytics' Project Score is based on three of the elements investors would want to know about every project:
- Team Strength - the Team Score is a measure of how reliable your project’s team is;
- Script Strength - the Script Score is a measure of good your script is; and
- Financial Strength - your Financial Score indicates your project’s financial prospects.
Slated Analytics' Team Score, Script Score and Financial Score are all on a 100 point scale:
- Team Score is based on the individual scores of each person attached to your project.
- Script Score incorporates each of the 11 ratings the readers have given your screenplay.
- Financial Score is calculated based on your project’s costs and revenue projections.
While the exact weighting of each component score within the Project Score is based on a shifting matrix of variables, your project’s Project Score will definitely increase when your Financial Analysis is delivered. The very fact that you have submitted your project for rigorous evaluation demonstrates professionalism and market awareness, both of which send out strong industry signals. How much your Score increases depends on the financial prospects of your project as it relates to expected production and marketing costs.
No. Slated Analytics’ projections are estimates of the overall financial potential for your project at the consumer retail level, not how much a distributor might offer as a minimum guarantee for the rights to a specific format or territory.
Generally speaking, turnaround times are:
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- {{productsObj.fin.rush.delivery_delta_days}} business days for Rush service (available for an additional fee).
Projections are delivered on a first come/first served basis, and if the queue is particularly full it may take longer than usual.
Estimated delivery dates will be provided at the time you purchase your Financial Analysis.
Slated Analytics started by collecting data for over 10,000 released films. The dataset includes financial elements (production and marketing budget), creative elements (genre and MPAA ratings), marketing elements (release date and theater count), and dozens of other data points, including team composition and script quality.
The data science team is led a Ph.D. in statistics whose experience includes years of “Moneyball”-style player performance prediction models for one of the premiere teams in Major League Baseball. He and the rest of the team analyzed the data to determine the variables that most closely correlate to movies’ financial performance.
Once the team determined which variables affect a project’s potential financial performance, they built algorithms that forecast the performance of projects at the development stage. These algorithms are constantly monitored to make sure they reflect current market conditions.
The team is constantly expanding the reference data set and improving Slated Analytics’ algorithms to make sure its models remain as accurate as possible. Not only has this system been shown to be more accurate than current industry tracking, but it does so as early as the greenlight stage. That said, as anyone who knows statistics and portfolio theory can attest, the broader the sample set, the more accurate the associated projections can become.
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Slated’s Deal Alerts matching system allows us to reach a pool of tens of thousands of industry professionals worldwide. In addition, we work closely with key talent agencies to ensure top scoring projects are exposed to packageable elements. (Slated’s Executive Producing Services fee would cover any related agency fees.)
While Slated’s self-service tools allow filmmakers to attract investors on an individual basis, our Deal Alerts are designed to reach our entire worldwide community of investors simultaneously. We tailor each deal alert to the needs of the project, and follow up with calls and emails to potential backers from our internal, curated lists of established financiers.
Through Slated Advisors' Syndicate Film Finance services, we facilitate investor vetting and introductions; manage the legal work involved with setting up the dedicated film funds through which all investors are funneled; handle collection and disbursement of funds; and take care of annual K1 reporting and all back office work. (Slated’s Executive Producing Services fee covers Slated Advisors’ fund management fees.)
Every film that Slated Advisors helps finance requires a completion bond and we work closely with a leading completion bond provider to ensure your project is bondable. (Completion bond fees are not included in Slated’s Executive Producer Services fee.)
Through our Success Alerts and media relationships, Slated lets everyone in the industry know about each project we successfully service, providing that extra boost in visibility that can make the difference in a buyers’ market.
Our Deal Alerts matching system enables Slated to rapidly reach all sales agents and distributors worldwide. Additionally, we work closely with select film sales companies to ensure top scoring projects are on the radar. (Sales agency fees are not included in Slated’s Executive Producer Services fee.)
Every film Slated Advisors helps finance requires a CAM agreement. We work closely with a leading CAM provider to ensure they are able to collect revenues for your project. (CAM fees are not included in Slated’s Executive Producer Services fee.)
Slated’s Executive Producer Services fee is 2-5% of the project’s budget plus 5% of the back-end after recoupment plus 20%. The fee includes some third party fees (e.g., Slated Advisors’ fund management fees, agency packaging fees, etc.) but not others (e.g., completion bond and CAM account fees). Slated’s fees are payable upon release of funds to the production; Slated receives no compensation for its Executive Producer Services unless the project goes into production.
No Slated employees receive individual credits on any of the projects we work on, but we do require a company card and credit along the lines of “In Association With Slated” in the main titles.
In addition to forecasting your project’s worldwide commercial potential based on your project’s existing profile, Slated Analytics also runs sensitivity analyses so you can see what your project’s potential North American box office receipts would be in other scenarios. Those sensitivity analyses include:
Slated does not currently provide sales and distribution services. Connecting you to film sales agencies and distributors would fall within our Executive Producer Services; no additional fees would apply.
Slated does not provide completion bond services directly. As part of our Executive Producer Services we help connect your project to a leading bonding company, whose fees are separate from our own.
Slated does not provide CAM services directly. As part of our Executive Producer Services we help connect your project to a leading CAM company, whose fees are separate from our own.