The Short Fiction Scenario

Presents a masterclass turning a short story into an effective film ... analyses in painstaking detail two parallel scripts made out of the same story Nikolai Shpikovskys Banner Znamia as Leonid Leonovs Feast at Zhimunka Pir v Zhirmunke and ... explains why one works better. Also imagines at length adapting Ambrose Bierces The Affair at Coulters Notch. Describes excitation and compression of the plot through the use of imagery as found in Honore Daumiers and Michelangelos depiction of movement and the works of writers Tolstoy Edgar Lee Masters Ford Madox Ford and more