The treatment itself is not the script but only an indicator of what our script will finally look like. It reflects how our video is planned. It does not inÂclude camera angles or lighting plots or even shot sizes. It is just a narrative description of what we could expect to see on the screen. In other words, treatment is presenting the visual programme in verbal form.
Read the example of a treatment in Exhibit 4.2. It indicates how the video will proceed to tell a story. Notice that it only suggests what the video will look like. It is from a treatment such as this that we actually go about writing a script. Once the treatment is approved (more often than not films are made for a client), we can go ahead and get the script written. Once we have the script in hand, it is for the director to shape the film. The director visualizes the script and makes notes on how to go about the production and plans the kind of shots needed to shoot the film.
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