Adaptation Studies: From Text to Screen

Getting started

What is your argument?

What type of video essay do you want to create:

Start small.

Have a look at other video essays to see examples of good practice.

Read a little more about the video essay:

Ideally just one sentence;

Write this down, keep referring to it and don’t be afraid of modifying it as you go through the whole process.

voice-over (https://vimeo.com/96558506)?

text+image (http://vimeo.com/28201216)?

supercut (https://vimeo.com/88077122)?

Don’t try to create something too complicated. Start with simple ideas and gather limited material at the beginning until you are confident that you can add more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47Lr9GXEnI

https://vimeo.com/album/3198467

http://vimeo.com/groups/essay

http://framescinemajournal.com/article/video-essays-in-the-cinema-history-classroom/

http://festivalists.com/post/110533801961/videoessay

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/

REMAKE. REMIX. RIP-OFF. (2014) - A documentary which illustrates the origin of copy culture of Turkish filmmakers.

“Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world....The Turkish film industry “Yeşilçam” ... was both financially and structurally weak. There were no film schools, no laboratories for film negative development, the equipment was old and beaten up, the films were exposed to a harsh censorship board and working conditions were adventurous and often deadly.... With only a handful of screenwriters and directors, that had to cater to an always hungry domestic market, Yeşilçam strictly following the laws of profit tried to satisfy the demand by repeating the same pattern over and over.

With the help of basically non-existing copyright law, Yeşilçam filmmakers started producing remakes of European, American and Indian movies. But they not simply remade the movies scene by scene, they were using the movies’ soundtracks or even special effects scenes, if recreating them wasn`t an option in lack of budget. In doing that, those filmmakers became the forefathers of todays patchworking and sampling....

Part I of Everything is a Remix, an exploration of the remix techniques involved in producing films.