Book #2 project: Adapting

The book If I stay by Gayle Forman is a great book but there are things that could be changed. First off I believe this book would be best as a movie because there is not much action so turning it into a TV show would just drag it on for an unnecessary amount of time. Some of the scenes that need to be kept are for sure the car crash, some of the memories and the ending scene. I think anything in the middle can be changed or edited in any way. I would like to keep some of the memories because it shows the relationship between Mia and Adam and it also shows her life with the cello and how she started playing. Most of the memories however, are pointless. They do not have anything to do with how the story ends up and they kind of feel like they are in there just to make the book longer. I think we can replace the "bad" memories with memories that will contribute more to the story and help develop the characters a little more. The soundtrack to this movie would definitely have to have a mixture of happy and sad songs as well as some classical music. Happy music for the good memories, sad music for the emotional parts and classical because Mia is very into the cello and symphony's. The one thing that needs to be captured for sure is the ending because it is what the whole book was building up to and it by far the most important part.