Adaptation & Transmedia
📋 What it is
Adaptation retells a story in a new medium (book→film); each medium has strengths.
🗣️ Coach says
The same story can live in many forms — a book, a film, a comic, a game. Adaptation reshapes it for each medium's strengths (film shows, prose tells). Good adapters keep the heart while changing the form.
🧠 Memory hook
Adapt = same story, new medium. Keep the HEART; reshape for what each form does best.
😂 Giggle
What did the side quest say to the main quest?
"I may be optional, but I'm still worth your time!"
😲 Whoa!
A film usually can't fit a whole book, so adapters cut and combine — which is why "the book was different" is so common.
✅ Quick check: When adapting a novel into a film, why can't everything be included?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
A film has limited time, so adapters cut and combine to fit the medium.
Each medium has constraints, so adaptation means selective reshaping.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Pick a book you love and describe one thing a film version would do differently.