Hello, my fellow artists! I am recapping my weekly experiences of the writing course I’m taking at the Sundance Collab. These recaps are a cool insight into the creative process and personal journey of building something from scratch. In this case, a feature film treatment.
Recap: Week 9. THE FINAL RECAP! I did it! I made it to the end of this awesome course. It was fun and challenging, and I am so proud of myself. Thank you to the Sundance Collab for this wonderful opportunity and experience. Thank you to my advisor and to the awesome writers I met. The whole purpose of this course was to take an idea for a feature film and create a 10 to 15 page treatment for it. The treatment serves as the source material for your screenplay. The more fleshed out and detailed it is, the easier it will be to write the first draft of your screenplay. Keep reading below 🙂
This final week was an additional opportunity for me to continue expanding upon my treatment from last week, with a particular focus on act two-which is usually the most challenging section to write. Act two can be a beast because it makes up and takes up the majority of a feature film script. Keep reading below 🙂
I expanded upon my treatment and ended up with 10 1/2 pages! Awesome! I have a TREATMENT! Now, am I done with this treatment? Absolutely not. Writing is rewriting. I see where the holes are, and I look forward to tackling them by revisiting my notes from weeks eight and nine, and by watching a few films that may help answer some questions. This plan will help me carve out my treatment and expand its current page length. Keep reading below 🙂
The other cool thing about the last nine weeks was the research I collected that will help inspire characters, future scenes, and future dialogue. I now need to organize my research into one central place so that I can access it easily when it’s time to write my screenplay. Keep reading below 🙂
So, this is the end, but not really. It’s more like the end of a chapter. I look forward to starting the next chapter of my feature film journey. Thank you to everyone who took this exciting journey with me over the last nine weeks. I hope it inspired you in some way. Now, it’s time for me to CELEBRATE this win! Keep reading below 🙂
Next week, I’ll be blogging about my second and third quarter wins before circling back to my acting updates!
Chasing The George 