ADAPTATION

Adapting a text into film is one of the main focuses of my studies. When I first came to Ringling, I focused on learning how to be the best director of photography that I could possibly be. I couldn't imagine that I would eventually start writing scripts all the time. I usually write my scripts in the screenwriting application called Celtx. So when I conceive my ideas I think about them being in a film from the start. An interesting challange would be to take a script that was written as a book and adapt it into film. Some of the major differences are found in how the action is described. In a film there can be shortcuts visually and in writing can have its own ways of having short cuts to explain things.