It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Art of Screen Adaptation by Alistair Owen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
'If you decide to adapt a classic or much-loved book, your working maxim should be, 'How will it work best as a film?' However faithful it is to the original, if it's not interesting onscreen then you've failed.' - William Boyd in Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters Hollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book - but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Do adaptations use the same creative gears as original screenplays? Does a true story give a...
The Art of Screen Adaptation by Alistair Owen is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The Art of Screen Adaptation aloud.
The Art of Screen Adaptation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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