"Tomorrow When the War Began" is going to be made into a film. You have been assigned to write the script. Write the opening scene of the film (the first 5 minutes or so) using standard filmscript layout (see an example here).

 

Like all scriptwriters, you are free to change the order of events, leave things out, add things in, change the dialogue, invent new dialogue and so on. A lot of the written description will have to be "translated" into visual images and the narrator’s thoughts will often have to be converted to dialogue, action or facial expressions.

 

Frankie Meehan