What term describes a brief narrative overview of a film?

• A. Pitch
• B. Synopsis
• C. Treatment
• D. Script

Answer: (C)

A treatment is a prose description of the story, its characters, and the intended tone and structure. It conveys the narrative beat by beat in narrative form, without full dialogue or a formatted screenplay. This makes it a concise, story-focused overview that sits between a quick pitch and a complete script—longer and more descriptive than a synopsis, but not yet a full script. A pitch aims to sell the project in a brief moment, focusing on selling points rather than detailing the story. A synopsis offers only a short plot summary with few details about tone or structure. A script is the actual screenplay with dialogue and stage directions. So, when the goal is a brief narrative overview of the film that communicates how the story unfolds, the treatment best fits.