Our Documentary Treatment.

Today we learnt about they key points to create a great treatment for our documentary. A treatment for a documentary is 'the opportunity for us a the creator to convince a third party that your documentary is worth making.' A treatment includes a description of the film itself and how we (the creator) will keep the project focused.

1. Have a punchy first sentence to draw the reader in; make them want to watch your film.
2. Begin with an overview paragraph which must include a title, the length of the film and a brief review of the story.
3. The next paragraphs should highlight how we expect our story to unfold (here we can include our point of view, the story and how we essentially plan to tell it, the characters in it etc...)
4. End the treatment with a funny or catchy sentence, like the opening to allow the reader to remember your film and have the desire to want to watch it.

Our Script Treatment:

In the lesson my group and I drafted up a treatment each and here they are:

*Mine:

 

After looking through all of them we picked out which parts we thought were the best from each one to create essentially a SUPER TREATMENT of our documentary.