Your novel, Greylands, is being adapted for the big screen. How involved are you in the process? How have you found the experience, and has there been anything that has surprised you? In some ways writing the script did interrupt other things, and for a long time I had resisted doing it at all. I had rejected offers from filmmakers to do scripts because I had never done it before and I feel it is a serious art. But the producer Tara (Morice) convinced me partly because she has such an intense and great vision or the film and a couple of things had happened that made me wonder if I should not try it. She got some funding and got a director and executive producer on board an they basically taught me to write the script – I can’t honestly think of a better way to learn than on a real project with a real director and producer and then with a film editor. I have found it a fascinating process and it has made me realise how much of a visual medium film is, compared to writing a novel, which is all about words. It may even be that the whole business of illustrating some of my writing enabled me to be interested in writing film – certain when I draw for books – when I am immersed in that- I really see the world differently. And of course in the end it all comes back to my writing – enriches it. Writing stories and books is, ultimately, my greatest love. - Isobelle Carmody davidmcdonaldspage/2014/08/the-australian-spec-fic-snapshot-2014-isobelle-carmody/
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:47:08 +0000
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