Assess ability to apply narrative-structure techniques to adapt a short story into a short film: identify core elements (theme, protagonist arc, inciting incident), choose and reorder scenes for cinematic pacing, convert internal narration into visual action, design clear beginning–middle–end beats and runtime-conscious temporal shifts (compression, expansion, flashbacks), and justify choices about dialogue, visual motifs, and scene transitions through short scenario-based prompts and brief adaptation rationales.