Craig leads the discussion on how to survive a notes meeting. As screenwriters, our instinct is to defend, deny and debate — but these are almost always the wrong choice. By reframing the discussion about the movie rather than the script, you can often end up at a better place.
Treatments
Outlines, treatments and numbered pages
To me, an outline tends to be less prose-y and feature more bullet points, but there is no common consensus in Hollywood about what’s what. We use “treatment” and “outline” interchangeably.
Pitching Star Trek
Roddenberry’s 1964 outline is the same kind of write-up TV writers use today.
WTF is a beat sheet?
Is a beat sheet an actual thing, or a mythical Hollywood construct?