Initially, our group was deciding between even completing a period piece from the children's author Michael Morpurgo since personally, he was one of the writers who affected me as a child and have stuck with me. However, we came to the conclusion of adapting the novel 'Nineteen Minutes' by Jodi Picoult since we thought that it would perhaps translate better on screen, more so than a specific period piece which would require a lot more things to require such as the dilemma of where to get costumes from. As a result, 'Nineteen Minutes' was a lot easier in this way to adapt into a screenplay and on-screen since it perhaps easier to adapt a more present-day piece. What also made us fall for this novel was the letter which begins the first chapter since we thought that this could be translated onto the screen in a creative way. The fact that the main character was also a teenager made it more relatable and perhaps more personal than it would have to truly understand an older character.
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