Fiction Adaptation - The Raven cont.

Originally a gothic horror piece, I want to give this a more modern setting, but mix some gothic features into it, to combine the both.
The whole style of the piece will be vey dark and mysterious; an older gravelly voice will be narrating the poem in a very solemn way. Whenever there is speech within the poem, the actor portraying the man in the piece will talk, rather than the narrator.
Rather than using the traditional raven in the sense of the actual bird, research indicates that the raven in the poem represents Death. As such, my adaptation of this poem will contain the portrayal of the Raven as the embodiment of Death. In other words, the Grim Reaper. I think this will make it different to many adaptations of the raven that I have seen, as most use the bird in a literal sense - I feel I am being a bit different.
The part of Lenore The man's lost love, will be given the look of an Angel, however she will look dead, kind of zomibified, as if she lost her beauty in death. She will however still be dressed quite elegantly - imagine the legend of the White Woman spirits across the land - I envision here like one of these spirits. She will pop up in past memories as the man reminisces about her in the poem.
The piece will take place in a modern house, where the man is living alone, and looking over past memories in a photo album of him and his lost love Lenore, whom is now dead.
The poem is partially about acceptance, and how the man cannot accept the reality that his love Lenore has passed to the other side. I will play on this fact with the photo album, and as well as the Grim Reaper taunting him, he will keep seeing Lenore in the corner of his eye as if he is being watched by both her and the Grim Reaper - essentially tapped, and he can't escape.
The tapping on the door, and throughout, is said to be the Raven's beak (making sense as it is a bird). I will replace this by having the tapping as Death's Scythe. I will use digital voice editing for Death's voice, as the Raven constantly says to the man 'Nevermore; and I shall make this voice very dark, deep and disturbing.