Before creating our film treatment for our Thriller film, I conducted research into the reasons why treatments are used and the best formatting way of creating a treatment. I used a range of websites and treatment examples I have included my research below.
What is a Film Treatment?
A film treatment or a treatment for a short is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene 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, 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. (Wikipedia)
What Treatments are used for
Treatments are widely used within the motion picture industry in the development process. The document are used by the screenwriter to pitch the screenplay, but may also use a treatment to sell a concept of what they are pitching to the film company.
How a Treatment is Presented
A Treatment is generally presented in chronological order, explaining the essential and important story events that make up the scenes.
Example's of Thrillers
A treatment is generally long and detailed, due to a compilation of full-scene outlines put together. The standard treatment for a film is 40 A4 pages in Courier New 12 font, Although usually under 80 pages. An example of detail and length is 'The Terminator' original treatment is of 44 A4 pages of length.
Treatment Examples
Below, is the treatment for Batman 3; the treatment is long due to the high amount of action within the film. When writing our film treatment, we are setting our selves a maximum of 4/5 pages in which will relate to the two minutes of film.
Batman 3
