as media studies: movie treatments and storyboarding

AS Media Studies:Movie Treatments and Storyboarding

Learning Objectives• To investigate the purpose of a treatment • To create a treatment for short films• Research methods to storyboard• To develop storyboard ideas

What is a Treatment??A detailed pitch or summary of a story, format, or concept for the purposes of selling to entertainment industry executives. Length and content varies by genre, but will always include a Logline and Synopsis.

What to include??When outlining your treatment, list and describe the most important elements of your story:• The main conflict.• The person, place, or thing that is the subject of your story.• Each action sequence.• The main characters.• The climax, which is the confrontation between the hero and

the villain.• The resolution of the main conflict.• Define the main conflict by asking yourself why your hero and

villain fight with each other.

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You now have 30 minutes to write your film’s treatment.

You may also want to think about your

film’s title.

storyboarding

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what• A storyboard is a graphical

visualization of shot sequence.

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what

• Each panel of a storyboard depicts a scene: physical environment, set design, characters, etc.

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what

• Drawings can be simple…

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what

• Or complete with camera and lighting information.

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what

• You can use arrows to indicate object and camera motion.

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• You should also indicate camera shot size.

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elements• Images• Transitions• Effects• Voiceover• Soundtrack

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why

• Storyboarding allows filmmaker to visualize and refine ideas.

• Serves to communicate ideas to production team.

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why

• Lets the production team start work early.

• It's a link to preserve your ideas for use in the actual finished product.

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reminders

• A presentation without a storyboard is like…

a cart without a horse.

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when

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• Developed by animation studios during the early 1930s

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Became popular in live-action film production during the early 1940s

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templates

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how• With Pen & Paper

Can be simple…

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how• With Pen & Paper

or detailed…

You now have 30 minutes to work on your storyboard.

This will develop over time though by the end of lesson

you should have made a good start.

Learning Summary• To investigate the purpose of a treatment • To create a treatment for short films• Research methods to storyboard• To develop storyboard ideas

Homework• To upload blog posts relevant to previous learning.• To continue to develop your groupsstoryboard so you can begin your film.• To attend Media drop-in sessions to continuewith pre-production work and editing.