Guide on how to write a treatment
After visiting the Future Learn website, I watched a video featuring Frank Ash in it, he is a creative consultant who has taught storytelling and creativity techniques to teams across the BBC.
In the video Frank explains his main points (advise):
- Think about your favourite book or film or any ‘good story’ you recently watched online, could you sum up its narrative into ‘one elegant sentence’ to provide its ‘topline’?
- What was its big story question, and how important was it to your appreciation of the text?"
From this is have learnt and aim to define in our personal treatment what the top line is and what the big questionis.
We will aim to define in our treatment and I have tried to base this practical advice:
Topline: A girl who wants to complete her scrap book full of things she wants to accomplish before she dies, which is revealed to the audience at the end.
Big Question: Does she have enough time to complete it?