Thursday 2 December 2010

Film Treatment Research

Before writing our treatment, I wanted to find out, 'What is a Film Treatment?' To do this I went to Wikipedia and found out a small amount of research.  



Taken from Wikipedia:
film treatment (or treatment for short) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture, television program, or radio play. It is generally longer and more detailed than an outline (or one-page synopsis), and it may include details of directorial style that an outline omits. They read like a short story, except told in the present tense and describing events as they happen. There are two types: the original draft treatment, created during the writing process, and the presentation treatment, created as presentation material.


After carrying out this research I feel that I will now be able to include better input into the writing of our treatment.