Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics

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Adapting Damion Armentrout’s “So the Young Enter the World”

 

 

 

The advanced techniques from Section Three may take some time to think through and understand. Some you may like. Others, you may not. But what I think you’ll find is that these four central ideas (Theme, Tension, the Triangle of Knowledge, and Reimagining Structure) are ideas that you have considered … but never really had the words to describe.

I don’t claim to have invented these techniques and ideas; I have simply recognized them and given them names. By naming something, it can be discussed. By discussing something, realizations can be made. By realizing an idea, that idea can be strengthened, transformed, and reimagined. My hope is that ...