Writing a Treatment

Writing a Treatment Audio/Video Production

A treatment consists of….. ….. a condensed version of the proposed production. This covers: Basic Ideas Issues of Production Main Characters Locations Story Angles

The Purpose A treatment is created to sell the idea to financial backers and major stars. Which means they need to be…. Attention- Getting/ Interesting Written in present tense Read like a short story

Script Dialog in Treatments • Most Treatment contain “key scenes” with the actual (or close to) dialog that will be used. • See example of script handout • A full feature length script would run about 120 pages (it roughly equals a page per minute) • Treatments are usually 1 page to every 2 pages of script (which using the above example of a feature length it would be about 60 pages)They are often much shorter.

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