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Archive for the ‘Treatments’ Category

  • Treatment writing tip: It’s not how much, it’s how little!

    04 Feb 2013

    OK, let’s face it, it can be tough writing a good treatment, cramming all the important events in a 99-120…

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  • Six Things You Need To Know About Treatments

    03 Nov 2012

    If you want to write for film or TV, then treatments, outlines, synopses (the terms are interchangeable in the industry) are something you have to get good at. And to write good treatments there are six things you'll need to know.

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  • Three Tips for Writing Treatments

    05 Feb 2012

    Writing a good, compelling, readable treatment is tough. It's difficult enough to write a script - but then to boil the whole thing down from 90+ pages to one or two...! However it's a crucial part of a screenwriter's job. Here are three of my top tips.

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  • How to land a top star and the BBC with one treatment

    13 Sep 2011

    Most people hate writing treatments. Not me, I love them. This is how I used a treatment to hook a top star comedian and the BBC in just five pages - and how you can too.

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  • How long should your treatment be?

    25 Aug 2011

    I've been running my Exciting Treatments workshop for over ten years now, and one of the first questions I'm asked is alway, How long is a treatment supposed to be?

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  • Get it right, not written

    01 Apr 2011

    Most people understand if a few typos or stylistic solecisms slip through in an email or (perish the thought) in a blog post. These are informal media. But a treatment or script is different. Unlike other forms of writing, they can easily contain hidden traps.

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  • Want to enjoy writing treatments – find your voice

    04 Feb 2011

    It's true screenplays don't offer a great variety of style or voice - but that doesn't apply to treatments, synopses and outlines. There are far fewer style rules for such outlines of your story.

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  • Write treatments with style

    01 Sep 2010

    I've written before that good screenwriters often get tangled up writing treatments. One major reason is that they are simply using the wrong style.

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  • Writing Treatments – Get Out Of First Gear

    20 Jan 2010

    Treatments are essential both for developing and for marketing your scripts - and yet many good screenwriters fail to write good treatments. It took me a long time to realise why.

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