Adaptation of William Blake’s Poem

For my adaptation of the poem I have decided to do an animation. I want this adaptation to centre on the wind because I think this is a prominent theme in the poem.

The animation will be set around a tree positioned in the middle of the screen with leaves on the branches and ground around it. The colours used in the animation will be rich, strong summer colours, such as green leaves and bright blue sky. There will be sounds of birds tweeting to show a calm, relaxed atmosphere. The first frames will centre on a light breeze sweeping in and rustling the leaves slightly. The scene will then focus on a boy and a girl smiling at one another to the left of the tree, which shows the ignorance of love. The wind will them begin to pick up to show the boy confessing his love to show the transition between the unknown love and the boy expressing his love. The boy will be on one knee in front of the girl to show he is expressing his feelings.

The colours begin to fade and give a blacker feel to the scene to emphasise the trembling the boy feels once his love is expressed. There will be a loud howling wind sound and the wind then creates a whirlwind and tosses all the leaves in the air and swirls them around the screen to show that the characters worlds have been turned upside down. The animation then focuses on the woman departing from the scene. Leaving the man on the edge of the screen.

In the distance a man fades into the edge of the scene as if coming slowly. The next screen shows the man becoming stronger, less faded and the other man, who is on the opposite edge of the screen after confessing his love, fading out slowly. The leaves begin to settle as the wind calms.

The final scene shows the woman lying amongst the leaves and the two men on either side of the screen. The man who confessed his love is faded, almost invisible and the man who entered later on in the animation is prominent. The last scene shows a single leaf float across the screen and settle on the woman, it then floats up slightly and rests on the woman again to represent the ‘sigh’.

This type of adaptation is a fidelity approach because it tries to faithfully render the poem into an animation.