Fiction Adaptation - The Raven

So I have written a summary of what is going to happen in my adaptation piece. I shall post it up here. More will be added I am sure when I come to scripting, but that process starts tomorrow! I shall keep you all updated with the process and upload my script up here as it gets done, from draft, to second draft, to final script!

The Raven

• ·      Starts with man waking up and getting out of bed. He jumps and hearing the knocking on his bedroom door, but dismisses it. He has just woken up.
• ·      Before answering he looks over to his bedside table, at pictures of him and his girlfriend, Lenore. Maybe set out as a memorial to her. There is a photo album he picks up and looks at remembering Lenore.
• ·      He hears the tapping once again, and draws the curtains in his room. Looks confused, he lives alone, stares at the door talking to it, trying to assure himself no one is there. Camera pans round and you see Lenore behind him, image as a White Woman spirit, ragged hair, black eyes, pale face and blood dripping from her wrists.
• ·      Announces to whoever is tapping, no-one is there. See behind him and Lenore is not there. He opens the door and see’s nothing.
• ·      He opens the blinds behind the curtains to let the light in. He turns around and is face with the Grim Reaper – Death.
• ·      He talks to the bird, before it simply announces ‘Nevermore’
• ·      He talks at the Reaper once again, before running into his dressing room. He is now dressed and runs out the house, refusing to accept what he sees.
• ·      As he opens the front door, it is stood there again, and he talks at it ‘Prophet, thing of evil…’ Once again as we see this we see Lenore behind him.
• ·      He quickly exits the house to a bright and sunny day. As he crosses the road he notices Lenore. Looks away before looking back and she is gone again. The Reaper appears behind him again as he asks it a question regarding Lenore. The Reaper again states ‘Nevermore’
• ·      He starts to walk to the shop, as he passes a road with the bus stop, he sees people standing at it, and Lenore amidst them. He shakes his head, refusing to believe what he has seen, before he looks back and every person at the bus stop is suddenly Lenore. Quoth the Reaper ‘Nevermore’
• ·      He makes it to the shop, seemingly seeing that Lenore is everywhere he looks. People keep changing into her. He enters the shop, goes to buy some milk. Shop attendant asks for money. He looks up, once again it is Lenore. Quoth the Reaper ‘nevermore’
• ·      He runs back to his house, Lenore getting closer and following him. We realise he cannot accept that he is seeing her, because he is the one who killed her. Eventually both Reaper and Lenore surround him. They drive him to the floor, crying, screaming after Lenore, before he is seen and assumed to be dead. Quoth the Reaper and Lenore, the very words ‘Nevermore’