Adaption | Reading homework help
- Write a brief summation/conclusion (1 page).
If you follow the guidelines above, your project should total 14-15 pages. Aristotle’s Six Elements – the following questions are only suggestions: Plot: will you change the story? The ending? The narrative structure? Characters: will you change the characters? Their gender? Their race or ethnicity? Will you eliminate anyone? You may want to include a “dream cast” of real actors for your film. Casting requires in-depth knowledge of the characters in order to understand which actor would be most appropriate, so create your ideal cast. Ideas: what is/are the main idea(s) of the play you chose? How will you convey that meaning to your audience through your film adaptation? Dialogue: will you retain the same language as the original play, or do you imagine the characters speaking differently? Song/Sound: how do you imagine the sound effects in your film? What about music? Is there a style of music or specific songs you think will enhance your film? Will the music/sounds be diegetic or nondiegetic? At what points will sound effects/songs/score be most effectively used? Spectacle/Visuals: Describe your film’s mise en scène. Mise en scèneis the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play. Translated from French, it means "setting the stage" but, in film analysis, the term mise en scène refers to everything in front of the camera, including the set design, lighting, and actors. Include how you imagine the costumes, lighting, and settings. What special effects might be included? Will you film on location? Where, specifically? What geographical location suits your interpretation? Or, maybe you focus on a specific kind of building. Will you film in an abandoned warehouse? A prison? A school? A particular neighborhood? Justify all of your choices. There is no sense in setting Hamlet in New York City in the 1980s, unless you draw specific parallels to the setting and plot of the original play. Make sure your concept makes sense. You need not have any experience with film production. This is a not a detailed plan for the implementation of your ideas. You are the director. You are not assuming the role of cinematographer, editor, location scout, art director, or technician. In other words, you don’t need to include in your p***r how you would execute your ideas, only what those creative ideas are. Say you want to change the dialogue in Hamlet, for example. Describe how (Shakespeare’s verse will be changed to the contemporary vernacular of Boston in 2020) and why (updated dialogue will better allow for a contemporary audience’s identification, and the Boston accent will accurately reflect the adaptation’s location and period); don’t re- write the play. You are describing a concept, you are not writing an adapted screenplay.
Technical Details:
Approximately 15 pages:
1 page introduction. 6 pages of typed, double-spaced written description of your adaptation, according to each of Aristotle’s 6 elements of Drama. 6 pages of images, 1 page for each element. No outside sources are required, just the play, the images, and Aristotle’s six elements.
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