Haydn Middletons The Lie of the Land :: Literature Christianity Religion Essays

Making a Movie on Haydn Middletons The Lie of the Land To make a plastic film from any source takes a lot of peck in the process. Its not just one or two people sitting down saying lets make a movie. There are things to be considered, things to be done and people to contact. In this essay, I plan to make a movie of Haydn Middletons novel The Lie of the Land, just to give a glimpse of the complications involved with making a movie.The first step in any movie would have to be a script. No script, no movie. Its just that simple. A small group (or one individual) would have to sit down and write a script from this novel. Of course he (they) would have to decide what to focus on from the book, or what they (he) wants to dramatize, and if there is something that they (he) can put in the script himself that wasnt really there to begin with. For example, if the screenwriter(s) wanted to make this a romance story betwixt the characters David and Quinn, then they would emphasize that dramat ically. They might add some sexuality into said relationship, and even go so far as to have Quinn come jeopardize to David at the end of the movie. The key words that you would see on the screen would be adapted from, meaning that the movie was based on this novel, but the screenwriter(s) wrote the movie from their interpretation. Of course, some things have to be in the script, such as Davids story, but how focused it is depends, like I stated, on the screenwriter(s).Now that we have a script, and well amputate out the process of submitting it to movie studios, the next step would be pre-production. For this purpose, well use a fictional studio and call it L 0 L studios. This studio, afterwards accepting the script, would hire a producer. Lets use a name here, like Richard Donner. His job is to hire a director, audition a cast, find a repair to film, or decide if it can be done on a sound stage (possibly both), and try to keep it all under budget. Our director would be James Ca meron, because with his success recently, his name alone would bring people to see this movie, which is the whole goal of the project. Casting is difficult, because certain factors have to be looked at, such as looks, (do they look the part?