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Adapting Novel to Screenplay
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(44 ratings)
351 students
Created bySteve Alcorn, Dani Alcorn
Last updated 2/2017
English

What you'll learn

  • Turn Your Novel Into a Screenplay
  • Structure Your Plot
  • Build Characters
  • Develop Settings
  • Create Conflict, Suspense and Mystery
  • Write Realistic Dialogue
  • Format Your Screenplay
  • Develop a Pitch, Logline and Synopsis
  • Market Your Screenplay

Course content

2 sections • 12 lectures • 2h 10m total length

  • Welcome to Adapting Novel to Screenplay4:58
    Meet Steve and Dani Alcorn, and discover what you'll learn in this course.
  • What is Adaptation?7:04
    What is an adaptation, and what is the difference between "based on" and "inspired by"? This lecture shows you.
  • Plot vs. Story8:59
    We often use the terms plot and story interchangeably, but they are very different things. Here's why.
  • Characters20:02
    Character development is the basis of all great fiction. This lecture shows you how to develop characters for novels and screenplays, and how they are different.
  • Three Act Structure13:01
    Three act structure is used for both novels and screenplays, but they are slightly different. In this lecture we compare them, and show you an easy way to develop your structure using checkpoints.
  • Screenplay Format6:11
    Let's looks at how a screenplay is formatted, examine the uses for each section, and discover tools for easily formatting a screenplay.
  • Dialogue7:57
    In this lecture we explore the ways you can use dialogue in novels and screenplays, examine the differences, and look at tools for sharpening your dialogue.
  • Conflict, Suspense and Mystery6:15
    These techniques for creating conflict, suspense and mystery will keep readers turning pages, and viewers glued to their seats.

Requirements

  • Open to all aspiring writers, young or old, experienced or just getting started

Description

Do you have a novel or an idea for a novel that would make a great movie? Has someone asked you to adapt their novel or short story for television or the movies? This course shows you how to create and market a screenplay based upon a book. You'll discover how to take that prose and turn it into a script, using:

  • Story Structure
  • Character Building
  • Settings
  • Conflict
  • Suspense
  • Mystery
  • Dialogue

Screenplays have different requirements from novels. They are more visual, and your characters need to keep active and immersed in conflict. We'll use an actual project to give you real examples of the decisions we made in adapting a novel to a screenplay.

The accompanying e-textbook (free with Amazon Prime) contains the complete novel, plus the first and final drafts of the screenplay. You'll be able to follow along in the book and the screenplay, to see what we changed, and why we changed it.

You'll also learn:

  • The Do's and Don'ts of screenplays
  • Screenplay formatting
  • To Develop a Pitch, Logline and Synopsis
  • How to Market Your Screenplay

Whether you're a first time screenwriter or are looking for techniques to polish your skills, this course will give you all the tools you need to adapt any novel into a potential Hollywood blockbuster. Enroll now!

Who this course is for:

  • Authors With All Levels of Experience
  • Authors with novels, complete or in process
  • Anyone who dreams of getting their idea for a movie produced

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