This workshop is designed to improve your treatment writing skills and give you insights into your style, ideas and story.

As an experienced writer-director Charles has successfully written treatments all his professional life. He knows only too well how challenging it can be to condense a full script or series into just a few gripping pages.

Everything starts from your story premise. He will analyse top professional treatments for you, showing how they evolve organically from their central ideas.
 

One of the problems is dealing with all the different kinds of treatments, outlines and synopses you need to provide for producers and financiers. Charles will lead you through the differences and show how to use each one for the maximum impact.

He fires you up to work on your own ideas with a series of practical and interactive exercises to build the strongest structure and then fill it with compelling characters and action.

He teaches you to expand your core treatment in intuitive steps.

You will learn how to build to one page, then two pages (ideal for the Euroscript Competition) and onwards, through to fifty page "Master" Treatments, and Charles will show how you can use each length for its maximum impact.

Treatments demand very different styles from scripts. Charles teaches you to draw on a very natural writing voice as a basis for creating flowing, attractive treatments that do the fullest justice to the story or series you want to create. 

No matter where you are, beginner or advanced, first idea or completed screenplay, you will gain a powerful new understanding of how treatments work and how to write the very best .