TIMELIN

E & T

REATMENT

LESSON OBJECTIVE:

To plan and produce a film treatment for your trailer.

A TIMELINE

A schedule of events that will take place in your trailer .

Takes into account –

timings

chronology

shot types

mise-en-scene

sound

WHAT IS A FILM TREATMENT?

A film treatment is a piece of writing that sets out the events of a film, it is a bit like a synopsis. It is written in the present tense and is produced before the script or screenplay and thus includes no dialogue.

• Treatments are written in Courier New 12pt

• New characters are capitalised

• Each scenes is represented in a single paragraph

YOUR TASK

You must produce a film treatment for your trailer by 25th January . Your treatment must also have elements of the time line merged into it , so it must include the timings of each scene/ shot on the left-hand side.