Adaptation & Screenplays

Reading screen plays, for me, was an entirely different world. It certainly takes a certain kind of imagination and knowledge to be able to read a screen play and truly make something of it, thus I salute movie makers everywhere for the way in which they bring these fairly vague documents to life. I made the slight mistake of reading a  rather difficult screen play to follow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  After much confusion and being unable to really piece things fully together, I switched over to reading a screen play for a movie I have even watched and love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and still had a very hard time with the hypothetical thinking and filling in all the blanks of the people places and visuals involved.

After reading the screenplays I certainly  had a new appreciation for all the people and creative power it takes to create a movie and to bring these conversations, essentially, to life. Although i studied costume design very briefly before coming to Ringling, I found that  while reading, I could make up the scenario in my head, but I couldn't actually pin point the absolute details of  the clothes, and never before had i realized that some thoughts and imaginative situations are literally incomplete. Hawaiian shirts.... yes.... but there are simply so many kinds!

 Because of this discovery I decided to go for depicting the scenery/set. Luckily for me I have actually been on a long road towards Las Vegas! My opening scene would depict a red convertible car with a light interior to match the landscape and a body with  sharp edges ( it is called a "shark" so it must have some sort of fin looking attributes) riding solo down a long straight road alongside noting but dirt and mountains. Everything is slightly orange, maybe closer to a sienna, but mostly a dulled yellow ochre, and a thin layer of dust floats in the air, making the entire world a slightly hazy, dusty, place.  Some occasional recognizable desert plant life would emerge every now and again, but mostly, roadside would be rocks in all their desert line patterns and the decently common desert shrubs that are mostly the same color as the dry dirt, a dulled yellow ochre.


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