TREATMENT

                          

07.10.2016 PLANNING: OUR TREATMENT

Frank Ash a creative consultant for the BBC tells us how to make a narrative interesting and how to compose a believable sequence. He has taught us to how write a treatment.

Treatment- a young girl is being held captive at an interrogation lab because she has been given a new illegal drug developed by her parents who are undercover pharmacists. She is acting very strange and they are carrying out tests on her. We see flashbacks to her parents injecting her and she gets released on purpose by a young man working there who thinks it’s wrong and that she is unsafe. We see the head of the lab talking to him and showing him pictures of the girl and at the same time it flashes to the girl running through a forest and tripping and gasping for air we also see a nasty looking cop with a gun running after her and we worry for her life, a flash light shines on her face and it’s revealed that a nice local couple who are on a walk have found her, not the cop.

Top line- young girl gets released from testing laboratory by someone working there.

The big question- where is she running to? Why did the man release her? And what has the drug done to her? 

• "So, if you’re aiming for your film to reach a large audience online, making sure it has universal appeal will be key. We’ll be thinking about this in more practical terms later in the week, but let’s bring Frank Ash’s points together with the last step’s concerns:
  
  
• Think about your favourite book or film or any ‘good story’ you recently watched online, could you sum up its narrative into ‘one elegant sentence’ to provide its ‘topline’?
• What was its big story question, and how important was it to your appreciation of the text?"

 Thanks for the presentation to The University of Birmingham and FutureLearn:
Video © BBC, Text © University of Birmingham