Freestyle Academy proudly presents
2016 Innovator Project by NilesL

The purpose of the Senior Innovator Project is use your own passion to innovate, create, and develop your own project.

Project Proposal

For my innovator project I decide to adapt a short story in a short screenplay. The story I decide to adapt was “Closure” by B.J. Novak, a story we read in english during our humor unit a couple months ago. After reading the story the first time, it was something that I really connected with and wanted to create into a film, and when the innovator project come around I decided it could be my chance to work on it. I original wanted to adapt it because I really like the way Novak wrote the story with the vivid descriptions of the scenes and characters, and also how the story progresses and the characters develop.

Project Productions

Read my research paper

Project Reflection

For my innovator project I decide to adapt a short story in a short screenplay. The story I decide to adapt was “Closure” by B.J. Novak, a story we read in english during our humor unit a couple months ago. After reading the story the first time, it was something that I really connected with and wanted to create into a film, and when the innovator project come around I decided it could be my chance to work on it. I original wanted to adapt it because I really like the way Novak wrote the story with the vivid descriptions of the scenes and characters, and also how the story progresses and the characters develop.

I wrote the research paper after I had completed my project, because my research paper was mostly based on the process of converting the short story into a screenplay. However my experience reading books like Harry Potter, or Maze Runner, then watching the films and the behind the scenes did help with the process and explained the reason why director's cuts or changed certain scenes the directors made and why.

I was originally planning to film my screenplay and was going to collaborate with Aava with filming, but because I didn’t film my screenplay I didn’t need her help. However I like to think that I collaborated with B.J. Novak because I worked on one of his original short stories, and converted his ideas it into screenplay. It was a successful collaboration because the screenplay I feel stayed true to the original story while showing my own personal touch.