How to Write a Film Treatment for Investors
The script has been completed and the producer has arranged meetings with investors about potentially financing the film. He asks you for a treatment of the script to offer the investors. Unlike the treatment you wrote before writing the script, this treatment needs to become a professional document. This tutorial will teach you how to "woo" investors with a treatment.
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Instructions
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Complete the script. Writing a treatment for investors requires the script to be complete, or at least complete at that point.
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Update the pre-script treatment. If this is about to go to investors, odds are a few drafts of the script have been done, and it has evolved from when you began.
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List the characters and whether they are major/supporting/principal on the first page(s).
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Describe Act One. This should reach much like a book. The goal here is to turn a 100 page script into a 5-6 page document that gets the exact same plot points and action across.
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Repeat Step #4 for the remaining two or four acts. If you have a script over five acts, you do not have a film script, you have a mini-series or television show.
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Be dramatic and capitalize/underline words. An investor will not read a script, but can be very impressed with the movie before ever hearing dialog if you purvey the drama through prose.
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Stay within the story. Avoid sounding like the writer and sound more like an impartial narrator. "I" and "My" are off-limits here.
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