Independent Reading Film Treatment Project

Role: Filmmaker
Audience: Film Producers (the people with the money to make the film)
Format: Presentation Film Treatment
Topic: Turn the book (so far) into a proposal for film. These proposals are called “treatments”.

Include:

Title (The title doesn’t have to be the title of the book. Maybe a different title would be better for a film version.)
Cast of characters (List the characters and offer a description (1-3) sentences of each.)

List of locations (List the locations needed to make the film. You don’t need to describe the locations.)

Short summary of the whole(Write a short summary of the book/film, 7 to 10 sentences.

Summary of each scene. (Write a 1-3 sentence summary of each scene – a scene is a single time and place – needed to turn the book into a film. You can rearrange and/or cut scenes from the book in order to make a better film. You must have twenty or more (20+). Films generally have somewhere around 70 but can have 100 or more depending upon how fast moving they are. So if you want an “A” for the treatment you’ll need to go well beyond 20 scenes.)