Anything Goes : "Treatment" by Jennifer Oakes

Here you go. http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/how-to-write-a-treatment.html Very generally speaking, the treament needs to be better written than the screenplay. Logline, treatment, screenplay. That's the order people will read your work, so the logline and treatment have to be stellar to get them to want to read the script.

You rock. off I go.

Best of luck. Feel free to ask any questions. Just send me a message if you need.

I address to you to my blog(but is in spanish)http://josemariavelezb.wordpress.com it could help you

Sé hablar y leer en el español, Gracias, Josemaria.. and thanks John Samano for your input as well. :)

Thanks, Heath!

I have not. I generally write my treatments in Word and I normally write them after the script.

People mostly talk about logline and synopsis; a treatment is basically for your own use in writing your story. You rarely hear anyone asking for treatment. I haven't heard the word in a while. But treatment is basically writing your script in a condensed form; it's like when you watch a movie and you're telling your friends the most interesting parts of the story.

Treament is still around. I've been asked for it. It's even on InkTip's site for postings.

They mostly asked for log line and synopsis. They used log line mostly for pitching. What they asked for mostly when they want a script is log line and synopsis. I'm not saying it's not there, but synopsis and log line are what they ask for. Once again, treatment is mostly for your own use in writing your screenplay; a few people will ask for it, but trust me, it's not necessary to have it for the purpose of someone seeing it.

They never mentioned log line to me, they asked for treatment, budget, & script outline. So that's what I need to provide, but the treatment has logline of course. Hope they want what I've got...

If you have the script, they would have asked for log line and synopsis. Then again it depends on who is asking. Who are these people anyway? I don't know of a person who is writing a screenplay who knows what's the budget is going to be without even writing the script. It would make sense for you to write the script before you start thinking of budget. Log line is not in the treatment; logline is one or two sentences telling about the script. And that's what you used for pitching your script.

It depends upon what kind of Treatment you are creating. There is one for your eyes only to help you get all your story ideas out of your head and down on paper in a kind of short story. The other would be created for a producer to help market your screenplay. The first I heartily recommend and the second should be avoided if at all possible. 1-Sheets are being used more and more these days to send out. They comprise of a Title, Genre, Logline, Main Plot (no subplots), Don't have to give away the ending, but needs to be written in the same voice and style as your screenplay. You will want to include your contact information at the bottom of the page. You will also want to Register the Treatment with the WGA. Hope this proves to be of some use to you. JB

A treatment is the next step after an idea and a synopsis. The difference between a synopsis and idea is that the synopsis (the story) has a beginning, middle and end. Your idea should be expressed in only one line (like a pitch), but the synopsis should be at least 5 lines and at the most 10-15 lines. In your treatment your story is split up into scenes. Your only write a couple of lines of action in each scene. No dialogue and of course no camera direction etc. Each scene should have a number and heading indicating whether he scene is INTerior/EXTerior, location (not the actual location, but the one in your story) and finally lighting directions put simple as DAY or NIGHT. The treatment helps you keep your story in check and a professional filmmaker can actually evaluate your story as well as calculate the approx. cost of your film was it to into production. Therefore they might green light further development (ie. financing the scriptwriting) based on your treatment. Next step is the actual script, which is much easier to write if you have a thorough treatment. Hope this helps.

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