# Analyze your script

> Build a Role Guide, apply an acting method like Stanislavski to your script, find performance references, and get notes on any line.

- URL: https://www.offbook.com/learn/script-analysis
- Published: 2026-10-14

Knowing the words is half the job. Script analysis helps you build the role: your objective, obstacle, and stakes, an acting method applied to the script, and notes on any single line.

- Video (MP4, 1:05): https://d2miifk9x400ct.cloudfront.net/v1/script-analysis/video.mp4
- Captions (WebVTT): https://d2miifk9x400ct.cloudfront.net/v1/script-analysis/captions.vtt

## Chapters

- 0:00 Intro
- 0:02 Open script analysis
- 0:07 Build your Role Guide
- 0:18 Choose an acting approach
- 0:31 Find performance references
- 0:43 Analyze a line

## Transcript

To study your role, click the Script analysis button on the right.

Start with the Role Guide. Click Build my role guide.

It sets out your objective, obstacle, and stakes, plus your relationships and arc.

Under Acting approach, choose a method, like Stanislavski. Then click Analyze script.

Offbook applies that method to your whole script.

Performance references finds film characters who behave like yours.

Each match says why it connects, and what to try in rehearsal.

To go deeper, click Analyze a specific line. Pick one of your lines, then click Analyze.

You get the want, the subtext, the pacing, and a way to play the line.

Use these notes to shape your next rehearsal.

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