winter break projects

In staging theatrical productions, it is useful to think of a story’s plot as a series of important moments and plan it out in a series of stage pictures. For this assignment, you will adapt Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” into a modernized version, but we will not fully stage the piece — we will instead create a “Stage Pictures” project. The steps below will help you develop this project into a type of visual storyboard for your adaptation.


1. Read, discuss, and take notes on the original story, “The Story of an Hour” (in class this week).



2. Break the story into time slots to see how long each section takes. Use the framework of a story plot to determine the setting, important moments in the rising action, climax, and resolution (in class Friday).


3. Decide how you want to modernize your adaptation. Determine the genre, setting, characters, overall plot, and pivotal moments leading up to the climax and resolution. 
- genre: drama 



- characters: Da baby/normal kid = Jonathan


- setting: The boy wakes up as da baby. 

- pivotal moments:
~ When he realizes who he is, he starts taking advantage of his attributes. 
~ He drops a song, has a concert, hangs out with his boys, and goes to an expensive shopping spree with them too. Followed by a big dinner.

- plot: When he gets the check from everything he spent, he realizes he couldn't afford it.

Climax: He starts panicking but before he gets in trouble, he opens his eyes and wakes up. It was all just a dream!

Resolution: He realized that the life of a regular man is a lot easier than trying to be something he is not. 


4. Break your adaptation into at least 8 distinct moments that will tell the story in pictures.

- Jonathan wakes up
- He looks in the mirror and he is da baby 
- he looks at his social media and he has da baby account too
- he hits up all of his boys and tells them to meet him at the studio
- he then records a song and drops it
- the he has a concert
- his boys and him all go to the mall after and they go on a shopping spree
- They all go to the most expensive restaurant in New York, and they eat. Da baby says the meal is on him.
- he gets a check and he doesn't have enough money in his pocket to pay. He doesn't have his card on him either. 
- He starts panicking
- But before the cops get there he wakes up and it was all a dream
- he resumes learning in class
- he then realizes that being a rapper isn't all so good.


 5. Stage those pictures and take a photo of each one. 

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/13717z1itOhrf1ZyCwenT1FaKGlFJ58BiXwVZt7Mc_TQ/edit


6. Import those photos into iMovie and add a line or two of ext or dialogue that helps explain each one. Use the original story to help generate these sentences, but adapt it into modern language where appropriate.



7. Add music to help set the tone of the story and show when that tone changes.



8. Add a title page and a credits page — you should then have at least 10 slides/photos with text.



9. Export the project from iMovie and upload it to Youtube. 



10. Post the link on your blog.

https://youtu.be/DfQuMLBtA-8

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