Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 6:32:14 GMT
The treatment therefore appears to us as a true narrative of the film, or rather as the transposition of the film into a story, before the film has even been born. Why use treatment in fiction? In a future post I will talk about how to use it, but now let's understand its usefulness when we have to write a novel. It allows us to create precise guidelines for the story to follow. Does it take away creativity from writing? I'm sure many of you are wondering. The answer is yes and no, it depends. Doesn't it take creativity to write a treatment? Does it take time away from writing the novel? The answer in my opinion is the same: yes and no. For the novel I'm writing, PU, I'm stuck in one place for a long time, but if I had used the treatment, I would have written faster. Here is perhaps the answer to the question: we use treatment when the story requires it.
It depends on its complexity. Why is it used in cinema? Doesn't it take away creativity? Doesn't it lengthen production times? No, for a film it is necessary, it represents a prose script, as it is defined. So why shouldn't it be used in fiction too? The length of the treatment varies depending on the sources. There are those who report 30 to 100 pages, those who set Special Data the limit at 40 pages, some less. 100 pages for a film is fine, but I think writing 100 pages for a novel treatment is overkill. Ladder A few months ago I talked about how to create a schedule for a novel – and the year before a schedule for blog articles , which has the same function – and we saw its usefulness: guiding us, through a series of points, to the creation of a plot. But now the lineup appears well after the plot! Yes, but here we are exploiting cinematographic techniques, in which the lineup, according to taste, is created after the plot, in some cases before the treatment and in others after. So let's see it as something different from what we had in mind so far.
The lineup has the function of listing the sequence of scenes . How can we use this type of ladder in fiction? While I was preparing my plot, or rather my subject for K., which is very linear, I thought of creating a list of the various scenes in order to have an interesting plot. Isn't that the cinematic lineup, in a way? As in a film, the schedule will guide me in dividing the material into chapters : I will therefore have a defined path to follow to write the novel. Drafting So far we have talked about technique and also creativity. The writing is certainly not free from both. Indeed, to write a novel, to put the first word and continue, while following a trail, both technique and creativity are needed. If all these phases may seem futile, long, disadvantageous or even stressful to some, in my opinion they only serve to facilitate the drafting work . Some stages are quite quick, if you put in the effort. Others take longer. Writing is the poetic phase of the novel, it is pure narration, it is a direct dialogue between writer and reader. All the previous phases were instead a dialogue between the author and himself.
It depends on its complexity. Why is it used in cinema? Doesn't it take away creativity? Doesn't it lengthen production times? No, for a film it is necessary, it represents a prose script, as it is defined. So why shouldn't it be used in fiction too? The length of the treatment varies depending on the sources. There are those who report 30 to 100 pages, those who set Special Data the limit at 40 pages, some less. 100 pages for a film is fine, but I think writing 100 pages for a novel treatment is overkill. Ladder A few months ago I talked about how to create a schedule for a novel – and the year before a schedule for blog articles , which has the same function – and we saw its usefulness: guiding us, through a series of points, to the creation of a plot. But now the lineup appears well after the plot! Yes, but here we are exploiting cinematographic techniques, in which the lineup, according to taste, is created after the plot, in some cases before the treatment and in others after. So let's see it as something different from what we had in mind so far.
The lineup has the function of listing the sequence of scenes . How can we use this type of ladder in fiction? While I was preparing my plot, or rather my subject for K., which is very linear, I thought of creating a list of the various scenes in order to have an interesting plot. Isn't that the cinematic lineup, in a way? As in a film, the schedule will guide me in dividing the material into chapters : I will therefore have a defined path to follow to write the novel. Drafting So far we have talked about technique and also creativity. The writing is certainly not free from both. Indeed, to write a novel, to put the first word and continue, while following a trail, both technique and creativity are needed. If all these phases may seem futile, long, disadvantageous or even stressful to some, in my opinion they only serve to facilitate the drafting work . Some stages are quite quick, if you put in the effort. Others take longer. Writing is the poetic phase of the novel, it is pure narration, it is a direct dialogue between writer and reader. All the previous phases were instead a dialogue between the author and himself.