One of the classes I'm taking is "Film and Literature". Here's the project description for our final project:
Adaptation Proposal
Choose a work of literature that you think would be successful if adapted to film. You may choose a work that has never been adapted to film, or a work that has been adapted, but that you would like to remake. Your literary work may be a short story, novel, novella, drama, or other material like a comic book/graphic novel series. You may propose that it be adapted as a feature film, a made-for-TV film (cable or network), or a television series.
Propose how you would like this work to be adapted. Your proposal may take the form of a 3-5 page written report (Word document), or a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation (using Notes pages when necessary).
Your audience: your instructor, who will be role-playing a studio executive with the power to “green light” the project. The studio is financially successful and secure, so budget should not be a concern (but let’s not go overboard with requests for special effects or other expensive “bells & whistles”).
Your introduction should explain the rationale for this adaptation (artistic and/or commercial reasons).
The body of your Adaptation Proposal should consider factors which are important to adaptation, which may include but are not limited to the following:
Changes, additions, or deletions to the original text, and a rationale for making these changes
If you choose a work that has already been adapted, why do you want to remake it? Is it outdated? Was the original adaptation less than successful – do you think you can improve upon it, and if so how?
Casting
Director
Other key players (like cinematographer, set designer, costume designer, composer)
Setting/locations
Film style/mood/genre
Key plot points or themes that must carry over from literature to film
Target audience/demographics
Lord Foul's Bane has already been adapted to film. You should do the Illearth War. If you are unfamiliar with the film adaptation please check this website:
I've never been able to get FBH to work on my computer. I get the audio but the video shows up as a green blob.
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Cameraman Jenn wrote:what are your computer specs and what program are you using to try to watch it?
What do you mean by computer specs? I have tried to watch it as a podcast on iTunes and on whatever program pops up when you watch it online (I think it's Quicktime?). My browser is IE7.
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If you have audio but no video, then you probably don't have the correct video codec installed. The usual reason for that is having a very old version of quicktime and/or windows media player and/or whatever. AFAIK the FBH movies aren't using anything non-standard.
Okay, I'll try upgrading my Quicktime then. Thanks.
EDIT--Updated Quicktime, and it still doesn't work.
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Rigel wrote:FWIW, I've had serious problems with Quicktime on Windows. That is, until I upgraded to XP Pro - then they mysteriously stopped.
Does that cost money?
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If you are unfamiliar with the film adaptation please check this website:
