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Adaptation 101. Length: choose the most memorable moments and think in episodes *Bias. Adaptation– there are SO many ways a text can be adapted! YOU DO IT! Jot down THREE scenes from Flowers Choose the FIRST ONES that come to mind. Why did you choose those particular scenes?
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Length: choose the most memorable moments and think in episodes • *Bias
Adaptation– there are SO many ways a text can be adapted! • YOU DO IT! • Jot down THREE scenes from Flowers • Choose the FIRST ONES that come to mind
Why did you choose those particular scenes? • What do your choices say about what is important to you in a scene? • (examples: humor, character interaction, suspense) • Tell me in one-two words
Avoid Long-thinking (the stuff you can’t necessarily envision) • Character thoughts • Long descriptions about setting, characters, plot… • *It’s hard to illustrate
The great secret to adaptation: dialogue
Dialogue: • What the characters are saying • He said, she said • “QUOTES” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OirCmabidME
What makes dialogue so memorable? • What makes good dialogue?
Important Dialogue: • Conveys most important storyline • Shorter is better • Conveys conflict *How do these three things work together to make good dialogue?
Plosives! The more plosives a word has, the more powerful the word will be Plosives: b (brain), c (coward), k (kill), p (power), q (quill), t (trance), x (vixen) Sometimes g (gag) and d (dead) can be used as plosives too
Blade vs. knife • Bandit vs. thief Pack a punch! “A wealthy scoundrel seduced and betrayed me” –Ronin “Dead broad at the table” -Shrek
Practice: • “Cole resented the cabin and all of this gear. When his father had agreed to pay all the expenses of banishment, it was just another one of his buyouts. Cole had news for him. This was just a sorry game. He twisted harder at the handcuffs and winced at the pain. He wasn’t afraid of pain. He wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything. He was only playing along until he could escape. He glanced back at Garvey. This whole Circle Justice thing had been such a joke. Back in Minneapolis, he had been forced to plead guilty and ask the Circle for help changing his life.” –Touching Spirit Bear (Ben Mikaelsen)
Now back to your chosen scenes... • As a group, choose one scene • Write one-two lines of dialogue as a table to adapt your scene from text to film *Must be your own original dialogue… not dialogue from the text