The way we work together will largely depend upon you: the nature of your project, your particular goals, and your time frame.

When it’s clear what kind of project you have, its stage of development, and the kind of work you want to do, we’ll negotiate a fee for my services.

I tend to work on this basis: after I’ve read or seen your work, we schedule an extended conversation that could take a few minutes or a few hours, depending on you, making sure to cover the points that are important to you. We can meet in person, or speak on the telephone. I don’t provide written critiques of your work, but you are free to take whatever notes you choose, of course. If I have read your script, I will return it to you with any notes or annotations I may have made.

I try to be responsive and flexible if you need to meet before a certain date (because of a deadline.) If you have follow-up questions about work that we have already done, I am happy to take your telephone calls (within reason.)

If, after we have met, you develop a new draft or version of your, I will be happy to look at the revised work for a newly-negotiated fee. (That is, this new read or viewing would be treated as a new consultation.) If your goals expand with each draft (which might be expected, as you move into production, post-production, exhibition and sales phases), so might the scope of our conversations also expand.

If you would like to work differently in any way, for instance, over a longer period of time, or through a number of versions of your work, make a suggestion and I will consider it. Mostly, I am eager to see your work, and hear where you are taking it.