Film treatment

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A film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture, television program, or radio play. It is generally longer and more detailed than an outline (or one-page synopsis),^{[citation needed]} and it may include details of directorial style that an outline omits. Treatments read like a short story, but are told in the present tense and describe events as they happen.^[1] A treatment may also be created in the process of adapting a novel, play, or other pre-existing work into a screenplay.