Film Treatment | How to write a screenplay 

That was the most simplest and best form I've heard of a treatment!!! Well done. I'm not sure why people make it so complicated.

Your breakdown of the structure of treatment is the easiest Ive experienced. Thank you brother!!

Within the first minute of your video you taught me more about film treatments then my university ever did.

Whenever I write I like a quick refresher. This was fantastic. Thank you.

0:54 LOL damn dude you got me

thank you for this. seriously saved me. took a storyboarding class this semester with no background in film whatsoever. we're doing an assignment where unfortunately my adhd kicked in when my professor was explaining what a treatment is and i zoned back in to everyone starting and me not having a clue as to what was just said lol. i have class in the morning so i took notes with your video so hopefully i can make something worth a good grade

THANX BRO

I have listen to the greats and your presentation on writing a treatment was the most guided and consisted. Thanks for posting. I Have written my logline, and I will listen to your video first until I commit. Should list the Genre under the logline or after. in addition, should we call our title a working title on the written treatment. Again thank you for your professional assistance. As a courtesy tell us something about you and some of your work.

Thank you! I am thinking about writing a script in a couple weeks

His arms are bigger then my future...😂😂 great vid much needed info 💯💪🏾🙏🏾

Great video! Very easy to understand what seemed far more complex.

Thanks so much for watching guys! For the Index Card Exercise, I made an error😬, this is basically an inspired version of what Blake Synder has in his book! According to his book, Blake wants writers to use 40 index cards to write 1 scene per index card. When I tried to do this Index Card Exercise Blake's way, I just ended up writing all 3 acts down in one Index card front and back. I couldn't do it Blake's way! I found this method to be a bit more challenging and efficient. Either way whatever works for you. 😌 Was this helpful at all? Anything I left out or anything you'd like to add?

Perfect breakdown bro thanks

Give examples next time mate!

This was very helpful. Thank you very much!!

as a Film student Im so happy to have found this channel.

thanks for sharing!

Great videos for an amateur writer wanting to learn the business. I appreciate this very much. Thank you!

Very useful!

Shout out from Nigeria. More grease to your elbow.

Sir I got an offer to write script of my book can you please help me

awesome video but a like just for those guns

Hi Allan, Thanks for this video. I want to write a treatment of the adaptation of my new novel. I think your video will help me a lot. My good friend will write the screenplay, but this is my assignment.

I am a new subscriber blessings and compliments from New York City.

Thanks for making the process So easy!!

I watched the whole episode, and it was extremely helpful. Because I am currently in the middle of trying to figure out how to do this, and you just explained it so easily, so thank you.❤

New subscriber here.

You nearly got me with that one lol

You have a awesome personality😎...this is a great video too. Very helpful

Don't talk with your hands. Tape them to your knees ;) if that helps. Gave you a thumbs up, you're funny. Your eyes look blue. Blue eyes on black people are fascinating.

My idea is about 4 highschool friends that live in oklahoma and are out casts. They are tormented by the barbie gang, 4 gangs of popular girls that befriends zoe's ex friend for her to fight physically. I hate my script.

You're gorgeous to listen to. 🙏🏽

Do I still use a film treatment if I believe a person needs a documentary?

Hello examples would have been nice. Lots of talking. trying to give my son some assistance for his college media class. More on screen examples.

What is the industry format for my treatment? Do you have sample?

Thanks this was so helpful.

This is useful

Good video

Please explain what is the resolution mentioned in the end. Thanks

I am a novice. This was GREAT. Thank you.

Great info

I have a question ...like I have a vague idea in mind...like story not clear ..but I know the start the climax and the good ending ... So where to start . First the treatment , as you told ,...then go for screenplay ..... I was seeing people saying go on writing the story ..at the end. Write the synopsis ..... What about marketing based synopsis .. Does it different then treatment synopsis

Hi! great video! It really helps a lot. One simple question here. Say I'm writing a Raymond Chandler type detective story, the crime boss doesn't show until the middle of act 2. How do I write his character break down, like should I avoid any spoilers?

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Thanks for wonderful lession Allan. If I pitch my script, should I attach the treatment with the script in a same document/file OR the treatment and script should be the separated documents/files. Looking for your reply. Thanks!

You're so soft spoken and that made me subscribe! Thanks for the useful information.

I turned away for a second and heard you "ending" the video and I was tripping out LOLL great video man

This video was very helpful and at the same time hilarious! I liked and followed for the humor

Thank you! This is very valuable!

Super informative and fun, thank you so much!

Where can we find treatments on popular films.

Thank you!! These videos're so helpfull

One of the best concise overviews of a Film Treatment online., merci. mobeleash

Hey it was great. You helped me a lot. Thanks mate.

Thank you for making this video, it has been extremely helpful for me. Been going round in circles before this.

Got my Thumbs up :). Useful, thanks

Very useful and very enlightening. Have been making notes from your videos for the last 3 hrs.

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Watching this video now and writing my screenplay treatment while watching this video

So wish you can laugh more I listen better when you do. I've been searching the best way to do treatment yesterday the whole day but you this morning I found you thank you. I will keep checking for more. ❤️

You definitely helped me out sir. You made me feel better about the two treatments I wrote. I felt like I didn’t do enough, but I guess I did lol!!

Thank you, thank you, and thank you for breaking this down the way you did. Perhaps you can tag on a quick illustration or something at the end.

Thank you so much! Great delivery.

Thank you thank you 🙏🏻

thank you! presented well

It was very informative. Thanks for making this video.

you kinda cute. Beside being explicitly thirsty, your video was really straightforward, informative and overall entertaining. It has immensely assisted me in crafting my treatment for my Uni assignment and i'm truly grateful. I wish you the best.

Great information! Thanks

This is great stuff...I am giving it a Like 👍🏾 lol love your personality and deliverance

Very helpful information. Thank you for sharing.

Great video, really enjoyed!

This video is so helpful!!! Thanks so much for making it Allan!!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩

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this was great! really helpful

I have some movie story. How cai I buy story? Can you please give some buyers number please😫🙏🙏💓

I need help for my homework I need to give my work on Wednesday I have to write treatment on psa

I liked the video

“48 paragraphs long”

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tuning in.

LOVE IT! LOVE YOU!

What do you think of writing really long treatments, say 60-90 pages or more? McKee says that one benefit of doing this is that we get to extract a shorter script out of a much longer work. This is the old studio way of doing things. It's supposed to make writing the screenplay itself a much quicker process, with a much cleaner first draft.

Thank you for all this great input. As an author, I never realized that writing a script vs a novel is like night and day! As a wannabe screenwriter, my goal is to first learn all I can about screenwriting, then craft a movie out of a book I wrote which won a statewide contest several yrs. ago. In view of the Corona virus and being on lockdown as a senior citizen, I figure if nothing else, keeping my brain challenged just might avoid getting dementia. :)

I discovered your channel recently, and I like it instantly, it was very informative. I have this question: How to write a treatment and synopsis when the present story overlaps with the backstory and merges almost at the end, as told in the script? Like ACT 2, ACT 1, ACT 2, ACT1 then ACT 3 + EPILOGUE.

Bro, you took too long to get to the point. A minute in, and you’re still talking about hitting a like button.

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Well it depends on your own techniques. I write my treatment AFTER the Exposé. Why? Because I write the exposé from my story ideas. The treatment is actually just the "menue" which you present and which will need to be almost flawless as your entrance and your own marketing. But overall I totally agree with you and your points. Very simple actually, but really tough to write. Im currently workin on a Mafia/Gangster Thriller called "The Last Moonshine", in which a reckless tax investogator becomes a corrupt official who helps smuggling alcohol during the prohibition in Chigago during the late 1920s. Euphorically, he squandered his shares in the red light district, losing his wife, friends and job and gets tangled up in deals with "Lucky Luciano" and accumulates big debts at the Cosa Nostra. His only way out is to help a young widdow to investigate retrievibg the lost payment of her deceased husbands insurance, of which she is waiting ever since her husband died in a car crash. But the Mafia already knew and everything leads to a showdown in which no character is the same as before. Friends are foes, his Mobster friends are after him, while this beatiful widdow carries a big secret which causes everyone to become overwhelmingly lost in the mess of the Mafia and its business. Yes there is Sex, yes theres blood, yes there is a good but unexpected ending. I first wrote my idea. Then i started to pick scenes which are very specific and I wrote the screenplay right away for some scenes which are very present in my mind and MUST be the way I see them in order to have this "feeling" to construct everything around. In the next step I do my research and start creating the characters to form the lifes and background of everyone. Therafter I write the Exposé. 20-30 pages very detailed with character details, scenery and setting and key dialoges. The key leading scenes of plot points 1 and 2 are fully written out and may explain more as there will be in the actual script. And NOW I would have a clear picture of what I see, what I want someone else to see, and have run this "plausibility test" during the process already. For the treatment I can easily pick the best parts of it and write it a bit more compact and now know where the twist is and which would be the most interesting but yet useful info I can present in this "menue". Once the treatment is finished, you can think of your selling line- Or what of your story would one read in the infobox on netflix or the back cover. To not tell too much but wake curiousity. I know, some work so much more different- But I guess everyone needs to know what works best. Cheers!

Great stuff! Keep up good work.