Treatment and Time

To produce a treatment for your OTSTo create a timeline to reflect timings and titles

A timeline

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

Takes into account – timings chronology shot types mise-en-scene

Example of Timeline

Man putting on clown make up

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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 scene is represented in a single paragraph

Your Task

You must produce a film treatment for your trailer by 4th February . 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.