ABSTRACT
This chapter defines the following formats: Web site outlines, Treatments, Proposals and design documents, Single-column scripts, and Multicolumn scripts. A project’s script or detailed design document includes every word of text, narration and dialogue; descriptions of all the images, videos, and animations; and explanations of the linking and functional elements. A treatment is usually only one component of the first detailed description of an interactive project. This preliminary description is sometimes called a high-level design document proposal, a design proposal or just a proposal. A proposal for a multimedia program that includes a story would follow much of the same format as above. It may, however, call the treatment a “story summary.” Many approaches to formatting scripts for interactive multimedia use linear screenplay or teleplay format as their basis and then add variations, so it is useful to understand the specifics of the linear screenplay format.
