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Writing Treatments

SAMPLE TREATMENTS

THE TOP FIVE WAYS TO WRITE A SERIOUSLY GOOD TREATMENT:

Your GOAL is to single space a tight, screen action treatment, and although some of the samples you will read are between 13 - 18 pages long, your aim should be to keep it to 5 - 8 pages. LESS IS MORE!

1. DO NOT USE 'LY' WORDS IF AT ALL POSSIBLE

2. DO NOT USE ‘VERY’ IF AT ALL POSSIBLE

3. REMOVE EACH AND EVERY 'ING' WORD WHENEVER POSSIBLE

4. REPLACE THE WORD ’IT’ WITH WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS FOR EXAMPLE; The driver sped away and it drove into a wall. SHOULD BE: The driver sped away and drove his CORVETTE into a wall.

5. DO USE TIGHT VERBS, VERBS AND MORE VERBS. Did I mention verbs?

BAGMAN

BLY

BUSTIN’ IN

DARK PARK

DREAMLAND

E.T. II - NOCTURNAL FEARS

H2O

HALLOWEEN 7

INVESTIGATION

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

SHOOTING STARS

TERRIFIED

THE PRICE OF FEAR

A WHITE MALE OF LIGHT TO MEDIUM BUILD

A great online resource for learning to write treatments can be found at the Movie Spoiler website. These are detailed summaries of new as well as classic release.

Movie Spoiler: http://www.themoviespoiler.com

For MORE treatment samples plus - Step Sheets, Story Outlines, Scriptments visit

SimplyScripts: http://www.simplyscripts.com/treatments.html


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