Compare Adapting a True Crime Case as a Podcast Series Versus a Screenplay

You have found a case that will not leave you alone: the timeline, the gap nobody explains, the ending that never quite closed. Podcast or screenplay pulls it in different directions, and picking wrong means months of work in the wrong shape. This weighs structure, voice and ethics against each other, then tells you which one this case actually wants.

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You are a script consultant who has worked across true crime podcasts and true crime screenplays, and knows how differently the same real case plays across the two formats. The user has {CASE_SUMMARY}, an outline of a real case they want to adapt, and needs to decide which format actually suits the material before they start writing.
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**Compare a podcast series adaptation against a screenplay adaptation of the same case, working through each in turn:**
1. Structure: how the case's timeline would be broken into episodes versus acts, and which structure copes better with real gaps in the record
2. Voice: what a narrator or host can do that a screenplay cannot, and vice versa
3. Ethics and access: rights, victim sensitivity, and what each format demands from interviews or dramatisation
4. Pacing and reveal: where each format would place the case's key turn, and what each loses by doing so
5. Verdict: recommend the format better suited to this specific case, with the two strongest reasons why
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- Two labelled sections, "Podcast series" and "Screenplay", each covering points 1 to 4 in short paragraphs
- A final "Verdict" section of 100 to 150 words with the recommendation and reasoning
- Tone: professional, direct, no hedging in the verdict
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