Patent ID: 7979145

Claim:
A computer-implemented elimination-style script selection method whereby the comparative audience-acceptance potential of a plurality of scripts is determined, comprising the steps of: collecting at least x number of scenes from y number of scripts having a plurality of scenes, wherein x and y are both independently integers, and wherein x is at least equal to y; for each of said script separately, performing a workshop reading of at least one of said scenes before a plurality of workshop reading participants, taking and computer-implemented scoring a workshop audience-acceptance level survey having multiple queries of each of said participants to provide a plurality of workshop reading raw survey tallies, taking and scoring a workshop theater-patronage-frequency survey of each of said workshop reading participants to provide a plurality of workshop reading theater patronage patterns matched up with said workshop reading raw survey tallies, detecting any parallel workshop audience-acceptance-level survey responses between workshop reading participants of disparate theatrical-patronage patterns, upon detection of a set of said parallel survey responses, using a weight adjustment factor to convert a least one of said workshop reading raw survey tallies into a workshop reading refined survey tally, and determining a combined workshop reading survey score from said refined and raw workshop reading survey tallies; and ranking said scripts by said combined workshop reading survey scores; and selecting the highest-ranking z number of said scripts, wherein z is an integer which is less than y, and eliminating the remainder of said scripts.