Sunday, October 12, 2014

Novel to Film-1984 Compare/Contrast

Essential Questions:


·      What happens to the characters as they are transformed from print to the screen?
·      Does three-dimensionality have an effect on how characters are perceived? Are they, in a sense, more alive because we can physically see them in motion?
·      When a novel is considered for a film, how do directors and filmmakers decide what part of this human condition appears in the movie version?
·      Which scenes are in and which are out? Does this selective process hurt the storyline? 

http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/short/gramtv.html


THINK: PRE SCREENING TASK: WHICH SECTIONS of 1984 WOULD TRANSLATE TO FILM BETTER? WHICH CHARACTERS? WHICH THEMES? WHY? 
 HOW WOULD YOU REPRESENT SETTING/TONE IN  FILM?



Tuesday and Thursday 14th/16th: Screening Focus: Create a Venn Diagram of note taking during film comparing/contrasting literary elements of Orwell's novel to the the film version. Apply film language. (see link above) 

 Monday October 20th: 
Pair-Share Post film screening Group Work: Using your concept maps and your venn diagrams, come up with a short oral presentation on why you feel the author and director's cut were different and similar for Character/Tone/Setting/Theme/Point of View/Style/Narrative. Do some group research into film maker's choices to add this to your thinking.




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