Adapting A Short Story Into a Screenplay Adapting a short story into a screenplay is like sculpture. You have to constantly modify and use prolonged creativity to gain mastery in this art. Creating a movie from a short story can be tricky and totally depends on the scope of the narrative. To make a compelling screenplay you have to identify the right kind of short story, one which can be visualized well. It is more common to fashion a screenplay from novels, but short stories to screenplays are becoming popular day by day due to people's leaning interest towards antiquity.
Points to remember
While adapting a short story into a screenplay, here are few things suggested by HG Nadel you should keep in mind.
Each writer has a particular way of interpreting a story. So, the story is subjective to the reader. The most important thing is that the screen player should have read the story and should have conceptualized individual perceptions. After understanding the story, define the main character of the plot and develop a story along those lines. Enhance the characters of the anecdote and present it in an interesting way. Since short stories revolve around activities in a very limited extent, the screenplay should present the inner mind of the character, in order to make it interesting and broaden its scope. You should not set an exact translation of the story into a screenplay. It is alright to deviate a little from the story. In order to make the screenplay interesting for viewers, most often you will have to exaggerate the story. Most movies are divided into three parts - opening of the character, maturation and finally the end. Screen players can also divide the story into three parts, in order to construct a movie. Lastly, you should formulate a draft of the screenplay. After reviewing the raw draft, changes can be made throughout to derive the perfect screenplay.