Today I started writing one of the five treatments for the Tennis Club series which will be handed in at the end of November. In the past two weeks I created 5 in depth informal plot summaries, each of which averaged between 2-4 pages. I decided the easier thing to do would be to go through those plot summaries and change them bit by bit and make them into treatments. I have never written a treatment before so asked a friend of mine (who is doing a similar course to me) to send me one of his so I can use it as an example and follow his structure.
This means that at the moment I am reading through the plot summary of episode 2, and changing it by removing and dialogue I may have included, being more formal with my language, being more descriptive and finally expanding it to last over 5-10 pages.
So far I am finding this pretty difficult, even though I have the whole plot in front of me, it is not an easy task expanding them. This summary lasted about two pages and is probably my shortest one, I am so far two thirds through it and have only reached up to the top of page four. This means that I may have to add extra scenes (as long as they work) and expand and become more descriptive with the already existing scenes if I want to even reach page 5.
I plan to work on these as much as I can in between submitting drafts of scripts. I may even have to ask some peers who are also doing treatments how they are finding it and if they know an efficient way of writing one.
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