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Writing A Script Treatment 2/11/06
Dear Scriptologist.com,
I'm a novice writer and would like to know the difference between a synopsis and a treatment. Are there a specific number of pages that should be in a treatment for a film?
—Galen McGriff
    Florida

Glenn Bossik, Scriptologist.com Editor-in-Chief:
A synopsis describes each of the scenes in a screenplay. Think of a synopsis as a story outline. A treatment for a spec script should summarize and dramatize the script, using dialogue and descriptions to describe the beginning, middle, and end of the story. The treatment can be up to seven pages long. But it's usually about four pages. It's similar to a short story.

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