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THE NOVEL [USE SUBMIT PAPER HERE FOR YOUR ANSWERS]
1. An excerpt from a Canonical authors' 19th century work was adapted to film early in cinema's history. Who is the author, what is the title of the work and what is the title of the excerpt adapted?
2. What percentage of commercial films have been adapted from books and what percentage of "best picture" Oscars have been adaptations.
3. As I mentioned in my previous lectures there are four basic genres of literature: fiction (short stories, novels), non-fiction (memoirs, histories), drama (plays, musicals) and poetry. Any other literary publication is pretty much an offshoot from those four. What percentage of film adaptations come from novels?
4. What are the six elements of literature's storytelling that are mirrored in narrative filmmaking? [Learn these we will use them for the balance of the Semester]
5. What are the five film methods that are an example of the symbiotic relationship between the novel and film and which author is credited?
Some Fundamentals of the Adaptation of the Novel
Novel/Film math: A novel has to be transferred to a screenplay in order to be adapted to a two hourfilm and since one screenplay page translates to one minute of cinemahere are some of the questions that have to be answered if you are a filmmaker.
6. Is there such a thing as a one-to-one (every word) correspondence between a novel and a film?
7. What's one way to cut and condense the novel's lengthy exposition while keeping the information?
8. VOICEOVER: Name two famous novels whose famous film adaptations use the voiceover as another way of economic exposition.
9. Skipping Exposition: What can the filmmaker use in place of the exposition if he/she chooses to skip the exposition?
10. DIALOGUE: Some novels have wonderful extensive dialogue but what is the filmmakers' argument for rejection of that dialogue?
11. The novel either has a first-person narrator or an omniscient narrator. Which is the most problematic for the filmmaker adapter?
SUMMARY:
12. What does it mean to truncate narrative elements of a novel to accommodate the average running time of a film? (You'll have to look up truncate if you do not know since the definition is not spelled out in the scanned text.)
13. What are the "determinants" outside of the novel that might cause the director, producer, etc. to change a novel's story for the adapted film?
14. What is one way the film might be quite different from the novel?
15. What is an "audience reason" that might inspire the filmmaker to make the change?