Welcome to Week 3! This week, you will take your outline, and expand upon it to create a treatment!A
Welcome to Week 3! This week, you will take your outline, and expand upon it to create a treatment!A treatment is a pitch document used to showcase the potential of a pitch that has not yet been expanded into a script. Like scripts, treatments can be optioned and sold. A treatment includes your logline, an introduction to your key characters, and a detailed plot outline broken into three acts. It can also include a high concept (the theme or meaning behind your film). For more info, check out the crash course listed in the resource section below.Treatment styles vary, but they are always written in present tense and don’t include dialogue. They are often typed in Courier or Courier New 12pt. font, though this is changingBy next week, July 21, 11:59pm (PST), complete and submit the following:A Working Title(Optional) High Concept: The theme of your film in one or two sentences. If you have a tagline, feel free to add it here instead.Logline - Revise your old logline if necessary.Main character biographies (Two paragraphs or more per character.)The plot, broken into Acts (As detailed as possible.)*Remember, your 2nd act should be twice as long as your 1st and 3rdResources for this week:Coffee Shop Critiques Workshopping GroupChallenge MasterlistPrevious Challege Posts (1, 2)Treatment Crash CourseTreatment template (in Drive under “Templates and Samples”)Example Treatments (in Drive, under “Film Treatments”)As always, I’m happy to give feedback. You are all doing a fantastic job and it’s great to see your stories coming together!Next week will be our last phase before starting the first draft! We will be writing a Step Outline, which is a scene-by-scene outline of your film that will make the first draft process much easier.Happy Writing!Jules -- source link
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