From the course: Script Writing for Nonfiction Video
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The script treatment
From the course: Script Writing for Nonfiction Video
The script treatment
- Writing a script treatment is all about coming up to the 50,000 foot or even 100,000 foot view of your project and giving it an overview. Giving people a flavor for the style and the tone. Some of the content points but also tying in goals and outcomes and what the success measures are going to be. So it's a lot to do in a small package. But I guarantee you that if you start writing script treatments it's going to be really helpful to you in a couple of ways. First, it's going to help you think through some of the issues of the project. Second, it's going to make sure that you are on the same page with your decision makers, whoever they may be, inside your department, external executives producers, clients, etc. So let's take a look at a couple ways you could do a treatment. One way you could do it is actually called a creative brief. In a creative brief what you'll do is some background information. You'll talk about who the audience is, who you're talking to. You'll talk about the…
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