Thursday 23 October 2014
After reading through all the poems, I'm going to choose the Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen.
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The reason for this is that i bonded with this poem the moment that i read it, and the other poems i felt dragged on a bit; were too text heavy, and if adapted for the screen might not give enough chance for the focus to be on the moving image and sound taking place within the production; to help bring the poem to life.
The reason that i have left it this late to decide upon what poem i want to adapt, is because i've been doing a lot of research about adaptation theory and the other theories that surround it. I feel this research may have helped my approach at looking at how to appropriate a piece of text, transforming it into something new; giving my appropriated version of the text an extended intertextual engagement for anyone body whom is to watch it.
In reading the anthem for the doomed youth, i felt that i'd be able to achieve this.
Here's some brief research that i've conducted on the background of Wilfred Owen, just so that i could get an understanding as to the notion under which he wrote his poetry, so that when i adapt Anthem For Doomed Youth, hopefully, even tho it will be transformed into something new, the fidelity to the notion under which the poem was written; the integrity will be able to be shown, even tho the context may be different.
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| Taken from www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/owen_wilfred.shtml |
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| Taken from www.wilfredowen.org.uk/home/ |
You will notice certain words highlighted on the pictures above, this is just to remind me about the influence and notion in which Wilfreds poems were written.
extra research:
more background on 'Owen the Poet'
www.wilfredowen.org.uk/owen-the-poet
