Treatment

What is a Treatment?

A treatment comes after the proposal stage (if they ask you to develop it) these are the things you have to talk about:

* Make sure you have an indication of the content and size of your product

*An Initial Script/Storyline 

*The amount it is going to cost for production

*The idea of the personnel Involved in the project 

*Any research that has happened 

When writing it make sure you put these things in:

Introduction:

This is a short opening paragraph explain what you have wrote about in your original proposal and what you will do to develop it. this will be the thing to sell your idea.

Outline Script:

This should be the section where you will explain your story scene by scene and in as much detail as you can so that they can understand what is going on.

Outline Budget:

This is where you will tell them what the budget requirements that you need. when putting this make sure you put a realistic budget for the product also make sure you use a real example of equipment hire.

Talent:

Who is doing what, mention the actors that will be in this.

Production Staff:

This is where you will explain who is working in this project breakdown.

Contingency:

Things can go wrong, so in this you will explain if you have any back up (say if an actor is ill and you need to replace them with a similar person).

Research:

Include any conducted research that you have made.

Treatment:

Introduction

In the Proposal we talked about what the story was and that its about a guy who goes to a restaurant with his girlfriend and as they are eating the ex comes in and it creates this very intense and funny situation. to develop the idea i will start advancing the script and create some funny situation, that will include getting some funny actors that can act very well it that situation.

Outline Script

The scene starts with the man and woman walking into the restaurant all happy and in love, when they sit down and order they start to laugh a lot with how weird the guy is, after a couple of talking scene the guy looks over and sees that his ex girlfriend has just entered the restaurant with her new boyfriend.

When she sits down and order the guy starts to panic and then runs into the toilets, when arrived he then starts to call his friend to ask him how he should get out, the first suggestion his friend makes is climbing out the windows so as he climb's out a dog starts going to attack him so he squeezes himself back in as fast as he can, when he ends the call and comes back onto the table he is then to think of another idea, he then starts telling his girlfriend that he's ill but the girlfriend doesn't believe him and makes him stay. After a while of him panicking he then starts begging his girlfriend to leave and he then tells her why, she then slaps him and starts shouting at him, he then becomes extremely panicked and runs out the restaurant but as he reaches the door the staff grab him and start singing happy birthday whilst bringing him back to his seat to give him the cake, but then his girlfriend grabs him and throws his head on the cake and walks out, when he gets up he goes over to the ex but it turns out it isn't the ex but just some random woman that looks like her he then starts to get a bit happier and walks out, as he leaves the restaurant he then bumps into someone and as he goes to say sorry he finds out its his ex.

Outline Budget

For the budget, We are going to try and hire a room for free so that we can use it for the restaurant scene, but if not the price range to normally hire a room for this situation would cost up to £40 - £100 depending on the building you use. When it comes to filming equipment the college will supply the camera's, boom, lighting etc. When it comes to Actors we will get the actors from getting either friends, family or people in the college so there will be no worry for paying them, we will bring food and beverages.

Talent

In this Short film we will only really need 3 Main Characters and thats, the man, the girlfriend and the ex girlfriend. There will be a few extra's, including the Ex's boyfriend. To get the main characters we will either ask the Performing arts group if anyone wants to do it or we will just get some confident friends to play the parts and when it comes to extra's we will just get as many people as we can to do it.

Production Staff:
On this project we have a range of different people, there is our group of four, we have some actors that will come in and we are getting help from the college.

Contingency:
There are only a few things that could actually go wrong in this project, Firstly, We go over our hired time and have to leave and to sort that we will make sure we get it done by getting people to work harder. Secondly, The batteries in the camera could run out, but to sort that we will make sure we have a few extra battery packs lying around so that we can just swap when finished. Lastly, some of the actors may get injured and to stop that we would have to make sure we a backup actor.

Research:

I have been researching on good places to film and they are in good distance of the college location and would be easy to get it there and film.