![]() ![]() Writing the Series Arc and understanding how the story pans out across the series length is important to ascertain before you drill into the Pilot. I always work on this with my writers before we get to the Pilot stage. The writing of the Treatment will have made you answer the questions that a Producer will ultimately ask – most notably, what is the main arc of the story, who are the characters and where is it set. ![]() The Treatment will be the first thing you need to nail before you move on structurally, with the rest of your tv development. The industry requires you to not only be creative and come up with great series stories to satisfy our increasing hunger for a brilliant series drama, but they also require you to be succinct, clear and to give them easy to read, easy to assimilate documents that break down and present the DNA of your television series idea. To write Pilots for Television well, you can read my blog here. This is a format I have developed over years of working on production and with writers now via my script consultancy. To write Treatments for Television well, you can read my blog here. My work with writers via my script consultancy is all about developing the idea and then writing the documents that show the creative and commercial aspects of the story to their best advantage. Writers need to know how to write Treatments, Series Outlines and how to produce a cracking Pilot episode. So, is there a set way? Some would say no, but I would say writing stories for Television Drama requires a certain process. You need to be both creative but also present your series narrative commercially so that Producers find it easy to read and it answers their key questions about the series as a whole. How to write a TV series outline is a tricky skill to get right. ![]()
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