Week Eight: Adaptation

Fiction Writer and Activist for North Korean Refugees Krys Lee

We have discussed how texts are textiles with threads of context and subtext that we see as patterns of all sorts. It is these patterns that we work to perceive and relate to one another when we read. This week's assignment emphasizes seeing those textual patterns through a specific and applied point of view.

Reading/Writing Assignment: Before coming to class please read one of the screenplays linked to the course resource page. You will find a number of them available to read somewhat down the page. Writing from the position of one of the major collaborators in the work--the Director, the Set Designer, the Director of Photography, the Costume Designer, an Actor of one of the parts--write a statement (memoradum) of 250-350 words that would explain the main elements of how you would approach the script when executing your role in its hypothetical production.  Choose a screenplay to read that is for a movie you have never seen. Please wait to see the movie until after you have written your blog post. 

Adapting a Literary Text to a Film

Link to Interview with Krys Lee