LEQ: HOW DO A DIRECTOR’S

DECISIONS IMPACT THE OUTCOME OF A FILM VERSION OF A

STORY?

Film Adaptation

How would you describe the people that live in the following rooms?

Consider the room’s color.Think about the textures and fabrics

in the room.What is the lighting like in the room?

Is it light or dark? What could this tell you about the person?

What objects are present in the room that are helping you to develop your description?

Room 1

What can you infer about the person that lives in this room? Write down at least three things you can assume about the person who lives here based on the previous criteria.

Room 2

What can you infer about the person that lives in this room? Write down at least three things you can assume about the person who lives here based on the previous criteria.

Room 3

What can you infer about the person that lives in this room? Write down at least three things you can assume about the person who lives here based on the previous criteria.

Room 4

What can you infer about the person that lives in this room? Write down at least three things you can assume about the person who lives here based on the previous criteria.

Share

With the person sitting in front or in back of you, share your responses. Together decide

on one adjective that best describes the stranger that lives in room 1, 2, 3, and 4.

What do these rooms tell us?

Color, materials, textures, objects, and use of space provides information about people and characters.

In movies, directors and set designers decide what costumes, colors, lighting, and props will be used to communicate the correct time period, mood, cultural and social economic status.

Directors must also decide which angle and direction of focus to use so the viewer will experience the story through their vision.

WORKIN G WITH A DIF F EREN T PA RTN ER T HAT IS S ITTIN G N EX T T O YOU COMPLETE T HE

VOCA BULA RY A CTIV ITY.

CUT OUT THE D EF IN IT ION S A N D EXA MPLES A N D PLA CE THEM WITH THE CORRECT WORD

ON THE F ILM STRIP.

VOCABULARY PRACTICE

HOW DO A DIRECTOR’S DECISIONS IMPACT THE OUTCOME OF A FILM

VERSION OF A STORY?

(LEQ)

Film Adaptation

Color

Chosen by directors to represent emotional states of characters.Deep Saturated Colors = Serious and IntenseBright Colors=Lightness and delicacy

Can also have cultural significance.US: Red=Danger; White=PurityChina: Red=Happiness; White=Death

Hallway Wedding

What color choices did the director make in the following movie scenes?

Lighting

Directors choose a specific light to set a mood and create dramatic effects.

Bright and Colorful=Cheerfulness; actors seem happier.

Dark=Suggests sinister characteristics in the actors and sets the mood for dark plots.

Picture 1 Picture 2

What type of lighting did the director decide to use in each of the following movie scenes?

Props

Any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie.

Sometimes can be crucial to the story.

We make assumptions about characters based on the props used to represent their environment. How characters decorate their living room can tell us as much about them as the dialogue or action.

Essential to the StoryGives us information about the characters.

What props did the director decide to use to convey the message of the movie or TV show?

AngleDirection from which a camera photographs a subject or

scene.

High: Gives viewer “Godlike” position looking down on the people and action.

Eye Level: Camera positioned like a human observing the scene.

 Low: Used to increase height and give a sense of speeded motion. Can be used to disorient viewer.

 Oblique: Used to film the point of view of the character. Can cause a sense of imbalance.

What angle did the director decide to use for each of the following movie scenes?

Scene 1 Scene 2

Scene 3 Scene 4

FocusConverge on or toward a central point of focus.

Long Shot: Shows exterior. Often used to show scenes of thrilling action. Gives a general impression. Not specific.

 Medium Shot: Contains a figure from the knees/waist up. Used for dialogue scenes or to show some detail of action.

Close Up: Concentrates on a face or specific detail. Shot magnifies the object to show its importance. Takes us into the mind of a character.

How did the director decide to focus on each of the following objects in the movie scenes?

Scene 1 Scene 2

Scene 3 Scene 4

Costume

A style of dress, including garments, accessories, and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period, or people.

Picture 1 Picture 2

What is different about the costumes the director decided to use for the same character?

EXAMINE THE FOLLOWING MOVIE SCENES.

INTERPRET WHAT THE DIRECTOR WANTED THE

VIEWER TO UNDERSTAND OR FEEL BASED ON THE COLOR, COSTUMES, ANGLE, FOCUS, AND/OR PROPS THAT WERE

USED IN FILMING.

Lets Practice….

Roseanne

Why did the director choose to use these costumes and props in the TV show? What message were they trying to convey about the characters?

Pleasantville

What message was the director trying to convey by their use of color in these movie clips?

Psycho

Why did Alfred Hitchcock decide to shoot this scene from the movie Psycho from this angle?

Share

In groups of four, share your responses. Each group should be prepared to discuss their interpretations of each slide from:

Roseanne

Pleasantville

Psycho

1S T : EXAMINE THE FOLLOWING MOVIE SCENES.

2N D : IDENTIFY THE THEATRICAL ELEMENTS THE DIRECTOR USED TO IMPACT THE VIEWER.

3R D : DESCRIBE HOW THESE DECISIONS IMPACTED YOU THE VIEWER.

How do a director’s decisions impact a viewer?

Austin Powers

Batman

The Shining

DID THE DIRECTOR MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE STORY?

IF SO IDENTIFY THE CHANGES, AND DETERMINE IF THEY TOOK AWAY FROM

THE STORY OR MADE IT BETTER.

Story to Movie

Three Questions to Ponder…

1st: What decisions did the director make in changing the context of the story? What did they leave out or add to the story?

2nd: Why do you think the director chose to make these changes to the story?

3rd: Was it a wise decision for the director to change the story line? What impact did the change have

you the reader and viewer?