Saturday, 5 March 2016

Major Project - Writing Treatments and Screenwriting Advice.

I am currently writing out Treatments for Episodes 4-6 of Different Perspectives. The main reason I have decided to do this is that it would take far too long to finish more than three scripts and would take away from the amount of time I want to take to get them up to scratch. I had already spent time during my pre-production phase developing treatments for my idea, but as my idea has developed since then I have found it necessary to re-work a lot of it. In particular i wanted to work on my ending more as I wasn't happy that part of the story for the most part.

I have also spent time researching into other treatments for TV Shows. This included going back to my initial sources such as:
http://www.writing.ie/resources/tv-treatments-what-they-are-and-why-you-need-one-part-1-of-2/

This website was a useful starter whilst writing during my initial Pre-Production work, as it contains a basic checklist for creating a Treatment. As it states Treatments can be quite accommodating in allowing writers to follow a looser set of rules than script-writing. Thankfully I have covered quite a lot of this already. The challenge is improving on what I already know about this type of descriptive writing and putting it to good use.


Another website I've also found useful is a sub-forum on Reddit.

This includes very useful tips from other aspiring writers who want to get some advice on creating/pitching their own ideas. Something I found very interesting to read was seeing the treatment for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

https://www.copy.com/s/Nu37uoU4ZhxfnguB/shining%20(treatment).pdf%3Boid%3A247

Something that I find interesting about reading through part of it was just how major plot points appear completely different through out the script. It signifies just how many previously notable scriptwriting elements can be changed or cut out in the process of delivering it to the screen. 

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