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    The document discusses some of the challenges of adapting Shakespeare's plays to film. It notes that Shakespeare's old English language can be difficult for modern audiences to understand and that his works were originally written for audiences 500 years ago. Additionally, Shakespearean performances relied on audience interaction which is not possible in films. To address these challenges, sometimes adaptations change the language to make it more accessible or add modern elements like guns that were not originally included. The document also discusses techniques for acting, editing, and filmmaking that can be used to successfully adapt Shakespeare's works for film.

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    The document discusses some of the challenges of adapting Shakespeare's plays to film. It notes that Shakespeare's old English language can be difficult for modern audiences to understand and that his works were originally written for audiences 500 years ago. Additionally, Shakespearean performances relied on audience interaction which is not possible in films. To address these challenges, sometimes adaptations change the language to make it more accessible or add modern elements like guns that were not originally included. The document also discusses techniques for acting, editing, and filmmaking that can be used to successfully adapt Shakespeare's works for film.

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    SHAKESPEARE ON

    Shana Morgan-Horwood 
    FILM
    CHALLENGES OF SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

     Old English is difficult to get to grips with we aren't used to it


     A lot of it is catered to an audience 500 years ago so making it compatible with this generation
    is difficult
     Shakespearian performances tended to use audience contact to get there a point to all that
    heard but that’s not possible in a film.

    To make it work sometimes Add things like in the Antigone They tend to focus on monologues
    people change some of the we did gangs where mentioned so each character in the play
    language, so the audience and there was guns in Romeo and completely understand the way
    understands and the characters Juliet when they weren't even things went on.
    no the terminology so it's easier made
    for them to play that character
    YOUNGER
    AUDIENCE

    They struggle with words

    Attention span very low must make it


    interesting

    Their parents are there so right level


    and of humour that everyone can get
    3 ACTING TECHNIQUES WE
    H AV E L E A R N E D A B O U T

     Acting through eyes 

     Gesture (an action with meaningful


    movement)

     Character development
    E D I T I N G T E C H N I Q U E A N D C I N E M AT I C T E C H N I Q U E S

    EDITING C I N E M AT I C

    o Black and white   Also sound and music


    o Excessive music and popping of bright  Bright colours
    colours
    SHAKESPEARE

     It is important to show Shakespeare work in modern English this is so children of today's


    society can understand it
     Children should still read the original version as well this is because this shows how great
    Shakespeare was at putting words together when there wasn’t many around.
     Other adaptations of Shakespeare's work are extremely important to keep for the future this is
    because they show how much people love and enjoy his work and how he is the one writer we
    will always remember 
    U N D E R S TA N D I N G R O M E O A N D J U L I E T

     We did a 20 minute version of romeo and juliet to understand the play 


     In groups we did frezze frames of each shortend scence
     The put them all together as a class

     Why did it help?


     What did we find out?
    V O C A L E X P L O R AT I O N

     You can tell a lot about a charcther through how they talk and how ther recat you show this through:
    1. Tone

    2. Rhythm
    3. Pace

    4. Aticulation
    5. Pause

    6. Volume
    7. pitch
    P H Y S I C A L E X P L O R AT I O N

     We did a workshop of how characthers would move in a scence we also reversed genders 
     Posture facial expressions gestures how a charactyher holds themselves all shows the emotion
    and power of the charaacther
     Proxemics between characthers can show there relationships

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