Creating a Treatment Webinar Tuesday 24 November
MEDIA Office Galway will host an online workshop, Creating a Treatment, with tutor Joe O'Byrne on Tuesday 24 November from 10am to 1pm.
- Creating a Treatment Webinar
- Tuesday 24 November 2026
- 10.00–13.00
- Tutor: Joe O’Byrne
- Apply here by 17 November
Joe O'Byrne is a playwright, screenwriter, and director (see Bio below). In this workshop Joe will show you how to write a treatment, logline, synopsis, and a pitch for a film. Please note that there will be a limit of 12 places for this online workshop.
The first impulse in writing for the screen is to go straight to the screenplay, and on a rare occasion that might produce great results but in many instances it doesn’t. The film business operates on the basis of pre-screenplay documents. Often you will be asked for a pitch or a synopsis for funding applications. In order to produce a good pitch or synopsis, a treatment is essential which is basically a detailed outline of the story.
A treatment is like a short story version of the idea the writer has but it also needs to incorporate a road map for a film with its accompanying structure. The workshop will look at essential pre-screenplay documents including the logline, the synopsis, the pitch, but will principally focus on how to go about writing a good treatment for a film.
Deadline for Applications is Tuesday 17 November. Participants will be told if they have a place by Wednesday 18 November.
Apply for a place on Creating a Treatment Webinar.
JOE O’BYRNE BIOGRAPHY
Joe has written and directed for theatre, film, television, radio. In theatre his plays have included “En Suite” at the Abbey/Peacock. He directed “Frank Pig Says Hello” by Pat McCabe and “The Woman Who Walked Into Doors” by Roddy Doyle. He has written and directed many dramas for RTE radio, including “Yardstick” and “What Next for Hedy Lamarr”.
Joe wrote the screenplay for “Korea” and his own film “Pete’s Meteor”. He was a writer on “An Bronntanas”, an Irish language film/TV project. He directed the filmed versions of “The Aran Islands” by J.M. Synge and Marina Carr’s “The Cordelia Dream” for the Irish Rep in New York. He directed the filmed version of Nick Snow’s “The Safety Catch”. His novel “The Red Orchestra in Blue” was published recently.