Ideas for fiction adaptation

I have been brainstorming some ideas for my fiction adaptation unit. my chosen poem of The Listeners, first gave me the image in my mind of a young girl alone and scared, with the feeling that she was being watched or followed by someone. I have then expanded this idea by thinking about things such as sounds, locations and lighting I think would work well in this concept. Below are a list of rough ideas I have come up with so far, I will expand even more on these ideas over the coming weeks.


Emotions wanted-

• Scared
• Alone
• Panic
• Lost and trying to find a way out 
• Hiding
• Feeling of being watched
• Innocence

Sounds

• Nursery rhymes 
• Wind chimes
• Silence
• Whispers
• Voices becoming louder and louder

Location

• Woodland
• Derelict house
• Secluded
• Cold
• Eerie

Main character

• Young girl
• Innocent and scared of the unknown
• Having flashbacks of the life she used to have
• Running away from something
• Crying
• Wanting to go home
• Holding onto a teddy bear for a reminder of happiness and memories

Ideas for how to convey words of the poem.

• Words to be shown on screen for audience to read themselves, with a backing track of creepy nursery rhyme music.
• The stalker whispering the verses.
• The girl whispering the verses.
• The words being said aloud by a voice over.

These ideas are just a very brief outline of what I have been thinking of for my film. I still have a lot more detail to go into and will be doing that over the next week or so.