Treatments, notes & statements · Core
Visual treatment
Also called: image-led treatment, treatment
ELI5
A treatment focused mainly on the project’s visual style and tone.
Used in conversation
“Can you send the revised visual treatment with the next version?”
Definition
A treatment whose main job is to communicate the proposed visual and tonal execution.
Here “Visual treatment” means: A treatment whose main job is to communicate the proposed visual and tonal execution. Other meanings are stored as separate sense entries and must be chosen explicitly.
Pitch context
You may encounter “Visual treatment” in pitch materials & presentation design conversations or materials.
Why it matters: Tells you what document, visual asset or file someone is asking for or reviewing.
Connected terms
- LookbookA visual treatment explains proposed visual execution; a lookbook primarily assembles references for the project’s visual world.
- Director's treatmentThe search label “treatment” can route to both entries.
- Director's treatment for film or televisionThe search label “treatment” can route to both entries.
- Editorial treatmentThe search label “treatment” can route to both entries.
- Story treatmentThe search label “treatment” can route to both entries.
Sources & evidence · 5
Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.
- Screen Australia — What is a Synopsis? An Outline? A Treatment?Supporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Screen Australia — Story Documents: DramaSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) — Scripted Pitch Deck GuideSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Sundance Institute — Pitch Deck, Lookbook, Sizzle and Proof-of-Concept GuidanceSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- World Wide Web Consortium — Making Audio and Video Media AccessibleSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14