Fiction Adaptation: Feedback with Helen

After reviewing my script with Helen, we felt that the piece was lacking a continuing thread that links the poem to the images throughout. Helen really liked the idea of the dollhouse and felt that I should make that the thread throughout the piece as it was creative and expressive in subtle ways. 

I went away from the meeting with many ideas for what I could do by going through the poem and picking out specific themes within the versus that could work. I struggled in many places because the poem's locations jump around to many different places making it difficult to focus it around the doll house. I realised then that I was thinking too literally about the piece and tried to work out a scenario where the dolls could be doing a specific action that would make sense with the poem. 

I thought about using the television to create an escape into the 'real world' linking in the section of the poem about the war. By using the toy soldiers like in my original script, I think this will link in this toy theme well but still have a strong realistic representation. 

By using the dollhouse as the main thread, I decided that this will give the illusion of something (that being the issues of identity) being bigger than you are. When we use the toy soldiers on the beach, it highlights how the war was much bigger than the individual lives of the soldiers who fought in it. The same goes for the dolls. The whole scene with the dolls is to reflect a memory of the protagonist which will symbolise the naivety of the characters and highlight the journey the young girl doll had to finding herself. 

From reading the poem, I thought that the time of the poem changed towards the end to be less of a memory and more present day. I decided that this is when we will leave the doll house and be introduced to the protagonist whose memory the scene is. The poem talks a lot about the difficulty in getting work so I have made the 'real world' character be preparing for a job interview to use the action to motivate her through the poem. 

For the end of the poem, Deanna Rodgers leaves it as a question for the audience. Instead of ending the poem immediately after the question has been posed, I want the audience to linger with the character so that they can really think about the meanings that this film is expressing. I have decided to do this by following the character out of the house and transpose the doll house as the background to make it look like the character is in fact leaving the dollhouse as opposed to an ordinary house. This will once again enhance the symbolism of something being much bigger than the individual making a rounded ending to the film. 

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