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Let’s talk about Preproduction

Let’s talk about Preproduction. For your next assignment, movie trailer, you will NOT be required to write a storyboard or regular script. Instead, we will add in 2 preproduction elements after the treatment.

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Let’s talk about Preproduction

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  1. Let’s talk about Preproduction

  2. For your next assignment, movie trailer, you will NOT be required to write a storyboard or regular script. Instead, we will add in 2 preproduction elements after the treatment.

  3. As you know, you write the treatment, script, and storyboard before you begin production.With a movie trailer, editors have the entire film to work with. The film is already shot.

  4. It will be pointless to write the entire script for a short movie trailer. Therefore, we will write a more in-depth treatment that will first summarize your movie idea in greater detail than the usual treatments.

  5. Treatment

  6. What is a treatment?A treatment is a written document that tells the same story as the script, but is shorter.It is brief, but exciting enough to read and gather the main idea of the movie.

  7. Treatments vary in length from a one page pitch to 2 to 5 pages of the story that includes the highlights up to 60 pages. Some write the treatment as a scene by scene breakdown as well.

  8. Your treatment will be a story that includes the highlights. It should be written in the present tense and read like a short story. You will include key scene, dialogue, and the ending.

  9. What do I need to include in the treatment?

  10. 1. Title2. Logline (One sentence summary of the script)3. ActsAct 1 – Sets up the scene, characters, and main conflictsAct 2 – How do the conflicts lead to a crisis?Act 3 – Final crisis and resolution

  11. Act 1 – 1 ParagraphAct 2 – 2 ParagraphsAct 3 – 1 Paragraph Length of each Act

  12. Silence of the Lambs 3 Act Structure Act 1: While still a student at The FBI, Clarice is asked to help on a case. She's eager to help and interviews Hannibal Lector who gives her a clue. Act 2: With his help, she is able to overcome many obstacles, and finds the identity of the killer.

  13. Act 3: She confronts the killer, saves his intended victim and makes amends for the death of the lamb.

  14. Step 1: Pick a title

  15. Pick a title that matches your story. You should try to pick a title that an idea of the genre. Great titles are valuable marketing tools and the first contact a producer has with the screenplay. A good title will steer a reader or producer into liking the screenplay because it suggests the topic or arouses curiosity. Titles:

  16. Great Titles Psycho Die Hard It Happened One Night

  17. Step 2: Write the logline

  18. Loglines: A logline is a one sentence summary of the script. It is similar to the summary given in TV Guide. It is a technique for describing the basic plotline.

  19. Continued… And Then Came Love is a character-driven romantic comedy about a high-powered Manhattan single mom who opens Pandora's box when she seeks out the anonymous sperm donor father of her young son.

  20. IMDB Logline For more examples, IMDB.Com has loglines for each movie. Can you guess which movies the following loglines are describing?

  21. IMDB Logline Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

  22. IMDB Logline A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates

  23. IMDB Logline A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet.

  24. IMDB Logline A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.

  25. IMDB Logline A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

  26. Step 3: Write the 3 act, 1 page, treatment

  27. Example http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/sample-movie-treatment-example-story-synopsis-for-a-film-script.html

  28. Bibliography • http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/how-to-write-a-treatment.html

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