Film treatment feedback

This is a recording of our group reading our treatment to a group of sixth formers who are in the target audience for our film of between 16 and 25.

Treatment

This is our treatment for our film.

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Treatments Research

In preparation to pitching our film to the class, we need to wright a treatment, but  before we can do that we need to know exactly what a treatment is.

A 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.

Treatments are important because they clearly show what happens in each scene aswell as were the scenes are set and at what time.

Treatments are widely used within the motion picture industry as selling documents, whereas outlines are generally produced as part of the development process. Screenwriters may use a treatment to initially pitch a screenplay, but may also use a treatment to sell a concept they are pitching without a completed screenplay.

The original draft treatment is generally long and detailed. It's compiled of full-scene outlines put together. These are usually more than about 30 standard letter size/A4 pages (Courier New 12 point), less than about 80 pages, and an average of about 40 pages. For example, The Terminator original treatment is 44 pages. More elaborate forms of the draft treatment are the step outline and the scriptment.