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  Film Treatment tips How to write a film treatment First, you’re asking what is a film treatment?  A treatment is a basic narrative tool that helps a screenwriter flesh out ideas and potential story scenarios that can help you also develop a good character base. What this basically means is that you create the narrative of your story first before you spend all your time writing the actual movie script. A film treatment outlines what your film will be about, the working or final title, your logline, a short story summary, and the descriptions of your main characters in the story itself. You need a film treatment to entice investors to give you the money to make your film. These investors want to know what type of movie, the genre, the story concept, and what kind of characters you want to have in your movie. Here is what they want to see in your treatment: What kind of world do you want your audience to envision. What is the structure of your storyline? What are your plot p

  The Logline A logline is a one-line description of your book, or movie script that you create in order to pitch your work to an agent or production company that might be interested in your project. Your job as a professional writer is to describe your work in a short one liner that is comprehensive and concise in a logline. This one liner describes your story or main character and the premise of your story. This is not an easy thing to do, trust me when I say this. It can take anywhere from a week to a year before you come up with that perfect one liner. So, get cracking on how they are done by doing your research of loglines for your favorite movies. Here are a few examples that I found on the internet: The Godfather : The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Titanic: Two star-crossed lovers fall in love aboard the R.M.S. Titanic and struggle to keep their relationship afloat as the doomed ship sinks int

How to Turn Your Manuscript into a Screenplay   They say that Hollywood movie producers are always in the market for new screenplay material to turn into the next big feature film. However, industry experts say they don’t want new fresh ideas and scripts, instead, they’d prefer book to film source materials because it helps to sell the movie itself in the long run. If you’re working on your own novel, consider adapting your novel into a screenplay for a film or TV series. So how do you transform your book into a movie script, it’s not that hard. Actually, each of my books started out as a movie script first. The reason I do it this way is because the movie script is all about scenes and dialogue. In contrast, a book has scene descriptions, feelings, and what the character is wearing to help give the reader a visual description so they can follow along in the book with better clarity. The Movie script helps me set the stage first for the story, which characters are in the scene and