NOVEL TO SCRIPT: How to Adapt, Structure, and Sell a Screenplay Based on a Book

ABOUT THE WEBINAR Novels are worlds unto themselves, fully-rendered artistic visions that have more in common with films than screenplays. To translate from one medium to the next, one key ingredient must be identified and adapted: story. Letting the story dictate what characters, sub-plots, and settings survive the adaptation process to the screen is the most successful way to structure a screenplay based on a book. But the process for unearthing a book’s essential story elements, reconstructing and reinvisioning characters, dialogue and setting for film can often be daunting. This OnDemand webinar will cover the analytical tools necessary to create a narrative structure for the screenplay…one that is based on the original material but allows the cinematic elements to come to the fore. Great novels do not always lend themselves to visual storytelling. This OnDemand webinar will demystify the deconstruction/reconstruction process essential in translating a book or novel into the visual