PLANNING: FILM TREATMENT

Brainstorm initial ideas:

INITIAL IDEAS

Our production team brainstormed ideas about the plot, the soundtrack, our favourite films / scenes from films, ideas for locations and characters. (Write freely: I can imagine using our dog / garden / school woods / my mother's office....)

We wrote an OUTLINE TREATMENT

.......your ideas.....

MINDMAP

Write a treatment for your film opening. A treatment will normally contain:

• A TITLE that is dynamic and engaging
• The TOPLINE - an 'elegant sentence' that sums up the action
• The BIG QUESTION - what is the cliffhanger? what is the enigma that will unfold?
• The SYNOPSIS - one or two paragraphs outlining the plot
• CHARACTERS - brief introduction: Adam, 35, a dreamy design engineer.... Lucy, 25, a disenchanted doctor... Mary, 18, an idealistic student...

NEXT 

• After writing the treatment, you create a STORYBOARD  (hand drawn on the sheets that I give you)
• and a SHOTLIST