Does anyone teach OCR English Lang+Lit. Can I pick your brains?

[DunbarsNumber]

DC is doing Lang+Lit in sixth form. For module F672 they have to discuss a text which has been reproduced in different formats so a book becomes a play or a film or a TV adaptation. There is a lot of talk about different approaches and possibilities, multimodality, reinvention and reinterpretation.

DC has chosen a book that has a single narrator, most others folks in the world having died! Will all this multi-ness come through from a book like this, where there is only one person's viewpoint? Is it a good choice?

[racingheart]

One issue in a cinematic adaptation might be where the dialogue or sound would come from. Extended voice over is frowned on, but cinema also tends these days to love minimal speech so it may work well. (Think of Wall-E - no talking for the first 20 mins!)
For theatre monologue would work well.
It might pose a problem on TV though, where we are more attuned to drama through dialogue.

Has the book already been adapted or does she have to propose adaptation ideas? If it's already been adapted, she only needs to look at the existing adaptions to see where and how the work has been reinvented/reinterpreted.

[DunbarsNumber]

They are supposed to discuss existing adaptations. The piece chosen is I am Legend which originated as a book in the 1950s and was made into the Will Smith film four years ago. There were other film adaptations and a graphic novel. The WS film has a different ending to the book quelle suprise!

[racingheart]

Dunbars, I don't know the piece(s) but it sounds like there's a real range and variety in how it has been adapted. It's particularly interesting to see how adaptations evolve in different eras. What the Will Smith film focuses on could be radically different from the emphasis of the original 50 years ago. It's also interesting to see what is the same, and why a piece of that era is seen to have relevance to audiences today.