Blog 14

I am planning on interviewing a couple of people who have had the opportunity of both reading a novel and seeing the adatpted film of that movie.  Some questions that I may ask them would be:

1) How are you doing today?
2) Have you read a novel and see the film that was adapted from the novel?
3) Did you like the novel or the film better?
4) Can you explain to me why one was better than the other?
5) If you could have made any changes to the film, would you? and what would those changes be?
6) Have you ever read a novel, only because there was an adapted film of that novel coming out?
7) If you were to ever be a writer, would you want to write the actual novel or the adapted screenplay of that novel?
8) Can you tell me a story of a time where you did see a film of a novel you read? Like for example - what were thoughts throughout the film?  Did you keep comparing it to the novel?

I am still working on coming up with other questions for those participants.

If I am able to interview an author/adaptor, the following questions would be what I ask to them:

1) How are you doing today?
2) How long have you been interested in writing?
3) What made you want to start writing?
4) Did you go to college to expand your writing skills? If so, which school did you go to?
5) What do you like writing more? Novels or screenplays? ( I will have a follow-up question to whatever his/her answer is)
6) Do you rather be the adaptor to your work or have another scriptwriter adapt your work?
7) How do you come up with what you want to put from your novel into the film?
8) Do you ever make changes from your novel to make the adapted film get more attention?
9) Do you think because you have adapted films to your novel, your novels get more attention?
10) What do you work on first? The novel or screenplay?
11) Can you tell me a story of a time when you were writing a novel and/or screenplay?

I'm still working on coming up with stronger/concrete questions to ask.