08 July 2012

"Topless Delivery - The Movie"


At the suggestion of one of my delivery drivers, I have recently begun the process of writing an adaptation of "Topless Delivery - The Myrtle Beach Experience" for a screenplay for a possible movie.  On the novel's website, I've already placed three pages of character descriptions and an online soundtrack for this very purpose.  The hard part is converting a 424-page novel into a 120-page screenplay.  The solution is to remove most of the narration and leave the action and dialogue between the various characters in the various scenes.  Writing a proper treatment will be a real challenge for me, given the fact that I've never written a screenplay, much less a treatment, before.

I have a few questions to ask my readers.
  1. How does one condense a 17-hour road trip into 5 minutes, 30 seconds of film?
  2. How does one write a well-choreographed striptease scene?
  3. How does one tastefully script sex scenes (I'm only using 4 or 5 of them)?
Any assistance I can get in writing a viable screenplay and treatment would be most greatly appreciated.  By the way, as of tonight's post, I have completed 105 of the 120 pages for the first draft of the screenplay.




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