Short Story to screen play- “A Sound of Thunder”

By switching “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury from a short story to a screenplay I was able to add more dialog and use my imagination to elaborate on the story line. The original short story was not to descriptive of what time of day it was, what the surrounding really looked like, or how the characters looked but they did a good job of adding suspense to the story. When reading the story, I was always wanting more, always wonder what was going to happen next, I tried to add suspense by stressing “don’t go on the path” in many ways over many seens. I was able to put my own spin on the story and manipulate the charters the way I wanted them to look and act. I was able to add slug line and there I put the time of day, if it was inside or outside, and where exactly the seen takes place. By using the action paraph I was able to describe what was going on when there was no dialog and for a better understanding of how the charters act and move. The dialog was the best place to set the tone and to show how the characters interacted with each other. The prentices showed how the actor would say the dialog or what they where doing right as they were saying it. By making “A Sound of Thunder” into a screen play I learned how to switch short story’s into screen plays and how to write a proper screen play.