ADAPTATION WORKSHOP: Prose to Scripts

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When we hear the word, “adaptation,” we might often associate it with movies (the ones that account for up to half of all Hollywood films) and which rank amongst the highest grossing at the box office). It’s more than that! Adaptation Workshop: Prose to Scripts, will have students transforming original experience (which may exist in various forms like one’s prose, journalism, or poetry) to the action, dialogue and visual-driven screenplay. This inspiring process forces an emphasis and commitment to a narrative shape, structure and the inherent exercise in economy of time in the dramatic writings forms. We also expand the very meaning of adaptation to include how we writers tap into our memory of real-life experience, perhaps our greatest personal resource for our storytelling ideas. ‘Finding the movie in it’ can be an enormously enlightening exercise to enlighten one on the source material itself.