Monday, February 1, 2010

Aim: How can we take our TV show ideas and take them to the next level, a treatment?

Tuesday, SWBAT: continue to evaluate their TV show presentations and begin to learn how to write teleplays for their ideas
SWBAT differentiate the difference between their raw ideas, a treatment, and a finished screenplay

Aim: How can we take our TV show ideas and take them to the next level, a treatment?
Do Now: Let’s quickly finish any remaining presentations that we have left…
(7-10 min.)

Materials:
• Macs, class blog
• TV show presentation worksheets
• What is a treatment? http://www.writingtreatments.com/html/home.html
• Treatment model, http://e-luttrell0.tripod.com/scripttreatment-2.html (fictional) and reality based program.
• Treatment template

Procedures:
1.) Elicit: Finish presentations and have students evaluate and give feedback for their ideas
AR: I like this idea because… (7-10 min.)

2.) Whole Class: Well I hope everybody enjoyed their time off and did well on your Regents exams. Today we are going to begin the process of turning our basic ideas into what they call in the TV and film industry, a treatment.

Ultimately, after that, we will be creating a few pages of a screenplay, based on our ideas.

What is a treatment? Well, its name is deceptive, but it is basically your TV or movie idea as a short story.

Writing these will do one of two things, it will force us to more fully flesh out an episode of our TV show ideas, and it will give us a blueprint of how to write the screenplay.

Think of a treatment as the short story form of your TV show idea.

They can be as little as a page or two, or as many as 20 pages. I will require you to produce at least two to three pages. (2-3 min.)

a.) Please click on the link and let’s read what a treatment is. http://www.writingtreatments.com/html/home.html Take two minutes to read the web page.
(2 min.)
3.) Pairs: Now Exchange what you’ve learned with the person sitting next to you. (1 min.)
4.) Whole Class: So let’s see what you learned…
Q: Who can tell the class what is a treatment?

5.) Independent Read: Okay, let’s look at an actual treatment, this is one for a fictional show, called, “Bustin In” http://e-luttrell0.tripod.com/scripttreatment-2.html

7.) Whole Class: Q: So what kind of a show does this seem to be?
AR: a pretty crazy sit-com
Q: What did you notice about it?
AR: It tells the story simply and clearly, it was vivid and simple.
(1 min.)
a.) Okay now let’s read together this treatment, this is for a reality show.
(3 min.)
Q: What is different about this treatment?

8.) Whole Class Write: Now I’m going to distribute a template for a treatment that we can all write together as a class, so we can get used to the format…
(10 min.)

9.) Independent Practice: Okay, now I want you to break off and start independently finishing this treatment. Just continue it as you think the story should go.
(7 min.)

10.) Share out: Let’s hear how some of you continued it… (remainder of period)

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