James gave us some treatments to look at, these were very helpful and informative for me to see how others in the industry have done it. The biggest takeaway for me is that treatment is a very loose document and can be written in infinitely different ways.
The ones we got to look at were for successful feature-length films as well as speculative films that never actually came to be.
One thing about the treatments is that while they were all done for feature-length films the actual page varied significantly between the different films. This really is about how well things are communicated at that point in the process, with the spec treatments being more bare-boned and not diving into the same amount of detail as say The Terminator or Kubrick's Shining. Cameron and Kubrick do a lot of planning I think and must have had really solid ideas of what their films should be by the time they pumped out those treatments.
It's interesting though, seeing how each creator approached it differently because each has a different part in the larger machinery of the film.
I have now finally started my treatment properly:
The ones we got to look at were for successful feature-length films as well as speculative films that never actually came to be.
One thing about the treatments is that while they were all done for feature-length films the actual page varied significantly between the different films. This really is about how well things are communicated at that point in the process, with the spec treatments being more bare-boned and not diving into the same amount of detail as say The Terminator or Kubrick's Shining. Cameron and Kubrick do a lot of planning I think and must have had really solid ideas of what their films should be by the time they pumped out those treatments.
It's interesting though, seeing how each creator approached it differently because each has a different part in the larger machinery of the film.
I have now finally started my treatment properly:
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