Director's Treatment-please help

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felero

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Hi there! I'm a director for TV commercials. My background was Visual Effects and worked on it for more than 15 years. 6 years ago I jumped into directing TV commercials and corporate video. As a director I was asked most of the time to make or write a director's treatment on or before the project is awarded. Since then I developed and tried so many things to create a very impressive treatment. By the way, I am located somewhere in asia. I don't know how the directors in other country make their treatment, that's why I wrote this topic to be able to seek advise from my fellow directors out there. I would really appreciate if you could give me or other directors like me, some tips to improve my ability to create a director's treatment for me to win more interesting projects.
What format you use, structure, what are included in, etc.?
Please help
 
And I thought I knew everything!

This is interesting. I have a couple questions, maybe someone can answer these for me when responding to felero's question.

I'm assuming he is also the writer of the commercial? As the writer is usually asked for the treatment. My next question is, why would they need a treatment for a commercial that runs twenty seconds? I mean, why wouldn't they ask for the entire script? This is very strange. What did I miss here?

I'm familiar with treatments, I've written my share, but those were for feature scripts. Thanks for de-confusing me in advance :)
 
What Alveraz said - except I do know everything. (Since my perception is my reality, if I don't know it it doesn't exist, until I do know it, then it's part of my reality, ergo I know everything.)

Seriously, I'm always fascinated as to how they do things other places - I agree this is really interesting... please explain :huh:
 
Director's treatment

Director's treatment

alveraz said:
And I thought I knew everything!

This is interesting. I have a couple questions, maybe someone can answer these for me when responding to felero's question.

I'm assuming he is also the writer of the commercial? As the writer is usually asked for the treatment. My next question is, why would they need a treatment for a commercial that runs twenty seconds? I mean, why wouldn't they ask for the entire script? This is very strange. What did I miss here?

I'm familiar with treatments, I've written my share, but those were for feature scripts. Thanks for de-confusing me in advance :)
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May I ask how do you usually write a treatment for feature? There might be some similarities or differences we can compare. Please explain. Thanks.
 
I would suggest doing minimal research before asking for advice on something as broad and easy to find out as this is.

All you need to do is google, 'screenplay treatment example'. You will find hundreds of step-by-step examples on the subject. Also, a simple trip to the bookstore would awaken you to hundreds of books written on screenwriting and treatments.

Good luck :)
 
I would suggest doing minimal research before asking for advice on something as broad and easy to find out as this is.

All you need to do is google, 'screenplay treatment example'. You will find hundreds of step-by-step examples on the subject. Also, a simple trip to the bookstore would awaken you to hundreds of books written on screenwriting and treatments.

Good luck :)
 
Thanks for your reply! I know in my own ways how to do a treatment, but when I saw this forum, I thought this would be a nice place for directors to share ideas and compare notes. I've read some threads from this site and I've learned something from it by reading. And somehow encouraged me to write. It's just that it has been a question to me, ever since, how other directors from all over the world do their treatment whether it's a tvc or feature. So by writing I was hoping to receive some useful tips or tricks with regards to my query. We all have our freedom of choice to reply and not to reply, but I hope that my fellow directors out there would be generous enough to feedback something usefull or helpfull on this forum, instead of complaining or criticizing other people.
 
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