Certainly film students do this. But as I pointed out in another comment, Shakespeare's plays are primarily verses, as opposed to stage direction, props, or sc

Certainly film students do this. But as I pointed out in another comment, Shakespeare's plays are primarily verses, as opposed to stage direction, props, or scene description. They can be looked at as poetry, as we do his sonnets. It's quite a different thing from modern films, which combine acting, cinematography, scenes, and music into a single art, cinema, that defines its own category distinct from those that came before it. The point of cinema is to "Show, don't tell" whereas plays in the tradition of Shakespeare are completely dialog-driven. In cinema, ideas are presented as a /moving image/, where in Shakespeare, they are presented in words.