How Do You Write A Screenplay Treatment?
Everybody knows what a screenplay is, but if you want to be taken seriously as a screenwriter, you need to learn what a treatment is, what it’s for, and how to write one. Although a screenplay itself will almost always be necessary in netting a deal to make your dream come to celluloid life, it is usually the treatment that lands you a meeting with a producer or studio representative. Know what a treatment is. Boil down any highly visualized screenplay into its basic components, and what you are left with is essentially a short story. A short story is exactly what a treatment should resemble. There are no hard-and-fast rules regarding their length: Some treatments are short as one page, while others may exceed 25 pages. The best approach is to create three treatments of varying length, with each containing more details. The tone of the prose should ideally match the tone of the screenplay; if you were writing a romantic comedy, you would use a lighter style than if you were writing fil
