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WRITING TREATMENTS
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As Hollywood insiders know, the first step in selling your story idea
to film or television isn't writing a script--it's preparing a treatment,
the brief pitch of a story that sells the concept to a busy producer
or agent. In this entertaining talk, writer-producer Ken Atchity tell
you everything you need to know to create an effective and salable
treatment, one that includes such key elements as:
- conflict
- likable characters
- plot twists
- a climax
- visual drama
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- access
- protection
- whom to send it to
- when to send it
- the deal
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But once you have a treatment, how do you use it to break into Hollywood?
How do you protect it? Can you sell "just an idea"?
Ken Atchity, president of Atchity Editorial/Entertainment, Intl.,
is a screenwriter and author of 13 books (including A
Writer's Time and with partner Chi-Li Wong,Writing
Treatments That Sell: How to create and Market Your Story Ideas to
the Motion Picture and TV Industry), and producer of 20 films,
distinguishes between scripts designed for feature films, episodic
television, and made-for-TV movies and shows step-by-step how to prepare
a dynamite treatment for each.
AEI is a motion picture production & literary management company
based in New York and Los Angeles. Clients include Steve Alten (Meg:
Walt Disney Pictures; Doubleday-Bantam, Doubleday Audio, Literary
Guild), James Michael Pratt (The
Last Valentine: Van Zernick-Sertner Films, starring Reba McIntyre;
St. Martin's Press, Dove Audio, Literary Guild), Rick Lynch (180
Seconds at Willow Park: Newline Cinema; Dove Books), Mark Gardner
(20/20, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, HBO Pictures).
In fewer than two years, AEI has sold two dozen books and has eleven
films in development.
"At last--someone wrote the book every screenwriter has needed
for years. It can make the difference between success and failure
in the industry."
--Linda Seger, author of Making a Good Script Great and From Script
to Screen
"Atchity and Wong have accomplished the near-impossible task
of offering a clear road map through Hollywood's Byzantine structure
of buying film and television properties. Essential material for the
beginning screenwriter and the established writer both."
--Dale Pollock, producer, Blaze and Set It Off
For information on booking
Call 323 932 0407
Email jp@aeionline.com
Or write to us at:
518 S. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90036
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