ABSTRACT

The purpose of a film treatment is to convince the reader of a cinematic story and the potential for the film to reach a broad audience. The treatment is a prose summary of the story as it plays out, in a compressed form, and is a process of screenwriting. It ensures the story is coherent and its meaning is made clear by conveying a sense of screenwriting conventions. Specifically, for the genre of historical drama, the poetics of a film treatment will encapsulate a blend of verifiable facts and creative solutions that contribute to the understanding of the past. Screenwriters, by way of empathetic and informed speculation, bridge the gap between epistemology and imagination to capture the hearts and minds of the audience. In 1902, a brilliant engineer’s emotions are at breaking point in the final days of his life as he struggles to defend himself against false allegations of corruption and incompetence levelled at him by parliament and the press. This is the ‘true’ story of the Coolgardie Water Supply Scheme, in Western Australia, encompassing the longest water pipeline in the world, but events conspire against the Engineer-in-Chief, Mr C.Y. O’Connor, leading to his tragic death.

抽象的

电影处理的目的是使读者相信电影中的故事，以及说服该电影吸引广泛观众的潜力。这种处理是以压缩的形式对故事的散文进行总结，并且是编剧的过程。通过传达编剧惯例感，它可以确保故事前后连贯，并清楚其含义。具体而言，对于历史戏剧类型而言，电影处理的诗意将融合可验证的事实和创造性的解决方案的结合，从而有助于人们对过去的理解。编剧通过善解人意和明智的推测，弥合了认识论和想象力之间的鸿沟，以抓住观众的心灵。在1902年，一位出色的工程师在他生命的最后阶段正处于崩溃的境地，因为他努力为自己辩护，以免遭到议会和新闻界对他的腐败和无能的虚假指控。这是西澳大利亚州“ Coolgardie给水计划”的“真实”故事，涵盖了世界上最长的输水管道，但事件共同打击了总工程师CY O'Connor先生，导致他的悲剧性死亡。