Aim: How can we turn our TV show ideas into a treatment?

Wednesday, SWBAT: begin writing their TV show idea treatments

Aim: How can we turn our TV show ideas into a treatment?

Do Now: Please write in your notebooks what a treatment is, based on what we learned yesterday,, you have 2 minutes. This will be collected! (2 min.)

Materials:
• Macs, Class blog
• Paper, pens, Microsoft Word docs.
• Story graphic organizer
Procedures:

1.) Elicit Do Now Responses:

2.) Pairs: Okay now I want you to work with the person that you created your TV idea with to work on turning your idea into a treatment.

Remember that each scene should be described.

It should be simple, clear, concise, full of action words, and should avoid flowery language, straight and to the point like journalism.

It should be in Times New Roman and on a 12 Point font.

a.) One person should be the writer, but you should both collaborate
It should be at least 2 pages!

I will circulate to help you.

b.) Distribute graphic organizer:

Spend 3 to 5 minutes taking your basic TV idea and plotting it on the graphic organizer.
I will tell you when you should start writing the treatment.
(3 min.)

3.) After five minutes: Okay, now you should start putting your idea into the treatment form.
(5 min.)

Pairs: Take the rest of the period to finish these first drafts
(30 min.)

Summary: Save your work, tomorrow I’ll assess how far along most of you are in this project.

(1 min.)