A film treatment (or treatment for short) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (
index cards) and the first draft of a
screenplay for a
motion picture. It is generally longer and more detailed than an
outline (or one page synopsis) and shorter and less detailed than a
step outline but it may include details of directorial style that an
outline omits. They read like a short story. There are two types, the original draft treatment, created during the writing process, and the presentation treatment, created as presentation material.
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