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"Help with a movie term, anyone know some?"

I am taking Media Studies this year as one of my subjects and because of this we are all entering ideas for a documentary to be made. This is NO budget project courtesy of the school, if our ideas our good enough then one of them will be made by Grampian TV, Scottish Screen cinema etc. Unfortunately it requires me to send (along with my application form), 4 copies of my "Treatment". What is "Your Treatment"? In media terms? I have no idea. Any help greatly appreciated.

Heh just so you know the whole double "l" thing in "tallent" was a typo. If I didn't point that out I just know there would be a bunch of n00bs going "Talent? You can't even spell it!" or some random crud like that lol:D

I'm not really doing it with my course. Scottish Screens, Grampian TV etc are looking for new tallent and to find it the are looking for Scots to propose an idea for a half hour long documentary (max budget £17,500). Even if you have little or no experience they still want to hear from you and they will supply equipment, staff etc to help you get started in your media career. I have a really good proposal just I need to know how to do this Treatment thing. Any help?

Editing is hellish.

Lucky the rest of my group usualy does it then, while I yell instructions and jump to 'Weenie Beenie'

Half an hour long for a first project? Are you sure?

Even in my second year, we don't do anything over 10 minutes. It takes weeks just to plan, film and edit a five minute programme.

Thanks guys, well I was restricted with my proposal as I was only allowed to give a 200 word max synopsis of what I wanted to do. I have written my synopsis and the documentary is only going to be half an hour long so I guess that limits what I can put in the Treatment anyway.

So how exactly should I structure it? I don't need to go into detail such as

Opening Titles - blah blah blah

Scene 1 - blah blah blah

Scene 2 - blah blah blah

etc... do I? Heh I have no idea what to include. (Only started my media course a month ago)

Yeah, ADH got it there. Although for what you're doing, I wouldn't worry about budget or schedule or anything.

Just remember, proposal is WHAT you want to do, treatment is HOW you're going to do it. And when filming, don't worry about sticking to your treatment.

Hell, I never look at my treatment after writing it. In fact, most of us write our treatments AFTER we've finished filming, which totally negates the point of them (we only write them because they need to be handed in)

Yeah.

A Treatment is a more "visually orientated" version of what your "Proposal" or "Pitch" would be. After you have made a proposal for producing a film/drama/documentary etc. (which of course considers target audience) a treatment provides further devlopment of the pitch.

This isn't neccessarily you writing about how the film unfolds second by second, it's more overall than that. It should describe premise, style, any particularly different ideas that are used in the piece, and anything else you consider relevant.

A "Treatment" also usually ends with a breakdown of estimated production time and cost.

I never pay much attention to the paper work but I believe it's what you're going to do and how. I could be wrong. Which media course is it? I'm starting year 2 of BND media tomorrow.

I am taking Media Studies this year as one of my subjects and because of this we are all entering ideas for a documentary to be made. This is NO budget project courtesy of the school, if our ideas our good enough then one of them will be made by Grampian TV, Scottish Screen cinema etc. Unfortunately it requires me to send (along with my application form), 4 copies of my "Treatment". What is "Your Treatment"? In media terms? I have no idea. Any help greatly appreciated.