Movies On the Pages of Books
The
world will live in today is full of fun. Everybody wants to be entertained in
one way or the other. Nobody wants to be bored and that is why even the
electronic companies all over the world are taken serious advantage of this amazing
fact to invent multifarious home electronics and phones that will keep almost
everybody entertained all round the clock.
It
is true that a large percentage of people still visit entertainment centers
like cinemas, sports arenas and all that, but it is also true that a more higher
percentage have one electronic appliances or phone that keep them even much
more entertained with the books they love to read, the films they love to watch
or the music they love to play and also, the sport they love to watch. So the
power of electronics has aided the world of novels and films. The use of
computer is also part of this electronic I am taking about.
A
novel today is one wonderful way people get a higher percentage of fun. People
are hungry to read everything that comes their way provided they can afford it.
They just want to catch the fun, the thrills and get entertained. Now the use
of computers/phones has even made this much easy. You don’t even need to visit
the library or book store to read or order your favorite novels. Now, with the
introduction of electronic publications, i Bookstores, Nooks and other
sophisticated online outfit now enables you download your favorite novels
instantly without waiting to get your order shipped and all that. It is
just an incredible way of getting everything you need on your phone instantly.
Now,
even books created in regions of the world you will or may never visit during
your live time are accessible with these communication gadgets. The same
applies to films, you can easily download and watch your favorite film(s) instantly
even without waiting to have your DVD shipped.
Novel
to me, is the original film, it really doesn’t matter how you see it. I know
this because I am in the business. No film can be acted without a story line.
And a story is first read on the pages of a book called a novel before it may be
drafted into script and then acted as film or movie. However, a story line can
be drafted in a script to be acted first and subsequently into a novel. This
largely depends on the author especially if he is into film making or being
contracted by a film company to help out with a script, which he may convert to
a novel if subsequently permitted by the contracting company to do so.
Some
people think film acting never has some guidelines. You can’t assign a roll to
a particular character without letting that character know what the content is
all about or the lines he/she will be acting from and all that. Now the climax
is this, a novel makes a film. In fact a novel is a film written on the pages
of a book for people to watch by reading.
Check
out the cover design of some of my novels and see what I mean.
A
time came in the history of man when people felt a novel can be dramatized and
then came a popular period when Shakespeare became the center of attraction. He
acted most of his novels on stage where many people gather to watch. I call
that a live film or drama performance. I guess you remember Romeo and Juliet,
that was actually a good film, it was a masterpiece. But these days, it is the
cinemas and internet that are presently the center of attraction. People love the cinemas and they we always love it. I wish every author can get their novels acted on stage or shot
into films and that would be an excellent combination that will undoubtedly
reach a wider audience.
A
good novel makes an amazing film or movie. In fact for a film to be acclaimed
great starts from the novel, its rich content. Any film producer can see the
market potential of a film right from the content of a novel. Most films acted
today without a good story line will always be a mess. I strongly advices any
film maker to have a third eye when reading content of a novel or a novel turned script, to immediately determine
the market potential. It is by winning the audience’s heart that will increase
views and sales undoubtedly.
One
amazing secret why you must read a novel(s) is that not everything written in
it is acted or can be acted in a film. For instance a novel that got so much
expansive material involved and a large number of people on its pay roll will definitely
take a lot of finances and many low budget film producers who may want such
film acted will want to improvise. What do we eventually have? You now have a
film that either has a little or great departure from the original novel story
line.
Film
making is expansive and to meet the content demand of most novels could be
extremely difficult. Now, only a novel before it is tuned film can actually
give you the true picture in your mind eye what the author is trying to present
to you as film on the pages of his/her book called a novel. You read everything
as it is and not the other way round. Some film makers can also help some story
lines contained in a novel and makes it seem better than the original novel
itself when acted.
I
think novel writing got an advantage over film making. Just anybody can write a
story whether small or large and get it published. Here of course you get to
read and understand the mind of the author in the storyline he/she presents
intimately. But film making is different. To assemble the casts, put the
logistic together and of course the huge money involved could be very frightening.
Honestly, without a grant or aid, film making is extremely a difficult task to
pursue.
Movies
on the pages of books, is an exceptional title I carved out for your reading
pleasure. You can read some of my published books here, please follow this
link:
Is
music actually a film? Now you have a content of music called lyrics and upon
these lyric a script can be developed and shot into film. And the artist or
musician becomes the main actor/actress but he/she has to sing, what he has
initially recorded in a CD etc.
Well,
we will stop here. However, I am going to be looking more into this in my next blog, I titled Converting poetry into songs.
This
is Emmanuel Abraham, signing out.
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