Adapting Novel to Screenplay

Turn Your Novel Into Hollywood's Next Bestseller!

4.20 (40 reviews)

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What you will 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

Why take this course?

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!

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Reviews

Vicky

July 14, 2023

I'm enjoying the dialogue and learning from it. Very interesting perspective on writing in a different venue than a book. Something to seriously consider that could augment telling a story in different platform.

Ufuoma

March 1, 2022

I was experting much more detail on formatting differences. A step by step guide would have been great, using a script we can see, rather than just talking about it. I was hoping to learn something new, as I already took the screenwriting class, however much of it was repeated.

Erin

May 12, 2020

There is a lot of really good information covered in this class and the way the two teachers explain it makes a lot of sense. I like that they play off of each other.

Ayana

April 25, 2020

I joined the course hoping to receive some insight into the adaptation process. The course did serve the purpose. I feel that the course is quite limited in what it deals with. But that was clear from the description before I chose it. So no complaints.

Nancee

November 7, 2019

Having worked in Hollywood at a Universal Studios for many years, I wish I'd had access to courses like this one. Very informative and the classes are easy to follow along and improve your writing.

Tina

November 15, 2018

Very basic. I suggest Dani Alcorn"s other course, Screenwriting Workshop which is very in-depth. The teachers include a download of his book and how he adapted it to a screenplay. That's a plus, but not very detailed teaching is included in actually adapting a story. There are a few good hints though.

Timothy

September 5, 2015

Novels and screenplays both tell a story, but novels tell the story in words and screenplays tell it with scenes. Alcorn's course teaches students ways to tell the novel story through scenes. Great course. The Alcorns present material in small, easy to understand bites that contain plenty of useful information for novelists wanting to turn their stories into screenplays.

Anthony

September 2, 2015

This course grounded me well in the ability to adapt my writing from novel to screen play. I was quickly able to focus on differences and application of story and scene in the two genres.The content is understandable and informative. The instruction is very engaging. This course exceeds my expectations.

Gary

January 17, 2014

I recently completed a short story that I have an interest in adapting to screenplay. This course provides for a basic understanding of what would be involved with the adaptation. I enjoyed the course and the instructors Steve and Dani made it easy and fun. I would recommend this course for anyone needing an introduction to adapting your writings to screenplay.

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