PLANNING: TREATMENT

PLANNING: TREATMENT

Friday 13th November - Tuesday 17th November

We had done some research into how to write a treatment, this is what we had found:

• Write a short/brief outline
• Remember what the purpose/meaning is of the treatment
• Don’t include all of the information
• Make the treatment readable and moving
• Show an active protagonist
• Include two or three intriguing, vivid images

As part of our research we took part and watched a FutureLearn video/course, which is presented by Frank Ash. Frank Ash has taught us storytelling and creativity technique to teams across the BBC and worldwide. 

See link below for Frank Ash’s Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0DjaV-Y-90

Four Key Points/Quotations: 

1.     “What is the story?” - What is it all about, what is about, what is the issue about (Top line)

2.     “What is going to happen?” - giving them a questions that gives the audience a sense of anticipation and suspense.

3.     “What big story question” - what is the questions that your going to pose at the beginning of the story, which is gong to give the audience a sense of anticipation and suspense. The end goal.

4.     “How will this story relate and connect to me (personally)” - think about the main theme in this storyline.

Our Treatment

The protagonist (Arrran) has just come out of a 5 year jail sentence and discovers his first taste of freedom agin into the real world, but not everything is is as easy going as he/you may seem. He faces manny problems and dilemmas once out of jail and the audiences sees the hard hitting reality that he faces (in his personal/social life, work life, mental and physical health) once coming out. The audiences sees what happens to the character: what happens when they face the criminal record on their back for the rest of their life. 

Top Line/Title and Big Questions

Top Line: Arrran has done time for stealing from a convenience store and emerges with a new-found determination  to go straight. He does not realise how much prejudice he will face and how many setbacks threaten to sink him. He is haunted by his past mistakes. It comes to a head when he is almost tempted back to his old ways, until a chance encounter offers new hope.

The audience encounters both sides of Arron himself, his past and present thoughts and actions. The audiences sees how Kevin tackles these problems that he faces on a day to day basis, after his traumatic situation. 

Title: “Criminal Faces” 

Big Question: “Will Arran make peace with his past and fin a future?