Conventions Of A Film Treatment
Before writing the treatment, Ryan researched how a treatment
is formed and what goes in it.
A treatment is designed to be the first rough test of how
your creative idea will fare out, by writing it into a brief and concise way
that explains everything that needs to be explained, you are saving writing the
full script and then realising it has no potential, and so if it isn't great at
the treatment stage you can move on without too much time lost.
Movieoutline.com states that the treatment should contain
the 3 sections of the film, in simple terms the beginning, middle and end,
though they describe it as Setup, Conflict and Resolution – which is more true
to media products than a typical story. In the majority of films, this staging
will work, though horrors tend to subvert these conventions.
We have all had experience of writing a treatment last year for our 2
minutes opening of a film, so Ryan is already fairly confident in how to write a
treatment.
Below is the first
draft of our treatment:
