Writing a non-narrative TV treatment... How should do it?

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Tokpaler

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Hi guys!

I may be in the wrong place to ask this, so please bear with me :)

I need to write a non-narrative TV treatment and I have no clue what the specs and format for it. I'm used writing narrative treatments but this one has me stumped!

Should I even be writing a treatment since it's non narrative?

thanks in advance!
 
I did a reality show some time ago, and basically it was not a lot different. Since the narrative treatment does not really get into much dialogue (at least mine don't), I followed the same format, and more or less wrote out how a show would play out start to finish: opening, host and guest intros, stakes intoduced, if there was a show-by-show winner, or an ongoing competition over a few or several episodes, and a closing.

You still want to have that intrigue in there - in narrative treatments I do leave teasers and what-ifs so the whole story is not given away.

If this were a talk show, for example, you could open the treatment with what is visually seen by a television audience.

A studio audience applauds a rising curtain. A host gets a last-minute makeup fluff, a camera operator gets into position, then counts down to zero.

Guest doors creak open, reveal nothing as the host makes his/her way ...



Along those lines

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I see. So it's pretty much like just like putting in to writing what you're going to pitch then.

Thanks for that, Alex!
 
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