How long should a Treatment be? (Sparknotes version)

Treatments used to intimidate the heckfire out of me

I get a lot of questions about treatments. A.K.A. an outline for a script that isn’t a synopsis. A pitch, in writing form, basically. Treatments are a lot less fun than writing. In many ways, they can be harder than writing the dang script. They require a different mind, a different approach.

I’m going to lay down a Sparknotes version of the treatment process for one of the projects I recently got set up:

It started with a ONE PAGER. A title, then a logline, then an almost movie trailer version of the story. A couple of paragraphs about the premise and where it might go.