This post is all about Film Treatments. A film treatment is usually seen to be a rough take on what the final product will look like.
Below is the Film Treatment for 'I Am Legend'.
The opening sequence now to 'I Am Legend', and if you had the treatment carefully you will see that it had said that the deserted streets will be covered in knee high snow, but as you can see just from the picture below of the video there is not one drop of snow to be seen. So this is why the treatment is only a guidance and may not look nothing like the finished product.
Now for obvious reasons treatments must have a structure to them and may want to be included that they must be short and remember the purpose of the treatment because for instance if you was to go off on a tangent or going into detail in what every character was going to do and say, then it would just be to long, and the role is to keep short. It must reflect the balance of the script, and include the script's ending. This treatment must be almost like a story and so it must be made to readable and moving. It must also show an active protagonist, and definitely avoid 'Then.......And.......Then', this will just pretty much bore the hell out of whoever will read the treatment, and it doesn't show any detail, but from this you must make the sentences flow and link with and other.
The treatment for our 2 minute opening thriller scene.
My next post will be the script (research and product).
