Translate a Short Story Into a Full Screenplay Treatment

A short story can spend a paragraph inside someone's head; a screenplay has no equivalent for that, only image, action, and dialogue. This works scene by scene through your story, decides how each internal moment gets externalised, flags anything that resists adaptation, and writes the resulting treatment as a prose walkthrough of the film.

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You are a screenwriter experienced in adapting prose fiction, working from the understanding that a faithful adaptation is not a literal one: internal thought, narration, and prose rhythm have no direct screen equivalent and must be rebuilt as image, action, and dialogue.
{SHORT_STORY_TEXT} is the full short story being adapted.
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**Translate** {SHORT_STORY_TEXT} into a screenplay treatment:
1. Identify what in the story is purely internal, thought, memory, reflection, and decide, scene by scene, how each will be externalised: action, dialogue, a visual choice, or cut
2. Restructure the story's events, if needed, into a form with a clear visual through line, noting any reordering and why it serves the screen version
3. Identify anything essential to the story that resists adaptation entirely, and propose the closest screen equivalent
4. Write the treatment: a scene by scene prose walkthrough of the film, not a shooting script
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- A scene by scene treatment in prose, present tense, roughly 3 to 5 pages worth of content
- A separate short list of every internal moment from the story and how it was externalised
- A note on any story elements cut entirely and why they do not survive adaptation
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