Script Frenzy: First Impressions

I looked at it last year, but I didn't participate in Script Frenzy This year I decided to take my nanowrimo novel and turn it into a film script. Films are less detailed than a novel in some ways. People who have read books and then see the movie are often disappointed. Whole subplots are deleted. Characters are merged. I wanted to get going on the script to sort out some of my plot failures and to strengthen the antagonists. Curiously, I'm finding the process actually is strengthening my descriptions of the environment. What does this character look like? What exactly is this character doing while it is speaking? How can I show rather than tell? I'm still having some difficulties with my Word template for script format. I think an hour or so at the keyboard should sort this out and then I'll have a pretty good idea where I'm at. I'm taking the high school worksheet available through the site to write a formulaic script but I think it will keep the pace fairly consistent. If I don't like the results, I can change it later. I'm not expecting to come out with a block buster. I'm really thinking of changing it back into a novella when I'm finished. Many changes involve tense. Novels tend to be written in past tense while scripts are present tense. I find reading fiction in the present tense fairly disconcerting.