Monday, October 19, 2015

Changing Genres

Imagine you are making a movie based on The Grapes of Wrath.  It will be feature-length, so you will have to cut scenes from the novel.  What do you cut?  Why?  How do these cuts change the structure?  What about the characters?  Does it improve the story?  Weaken it?  What about the interchapters?  What do you do about them?  Most mainstream films contain a three act structure.  What would you do about that?  What images would you emphasize?

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