The mini-screenplays created in class are good examples of the text-self stage of reading development. Personally while collaborating with the other member of my group we had the power to choose what to put in our screenplays and what to leave out. I didn’t realize it at the time but doing the screen play was my way of saying “I like this,” and “we don’t need that.” Also, the mini-screenplays were examples of text- other texts.
Our task was to think of how this novel could be converted into a screenplay to adapt it into film form. In doing so we choose what people could relate to, what was funny, and what could be easily converted into a possible movie. In a way when we were converting the pages of words into a screenplay I tried to use other books that were converted into movies to choose what to include in our screenplay. Not knowing it I was using two of the stages of reading development.
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Excellent work, Renet. This is a very original post about the kind of reading that occurs during the process of collaboration and adaptation. Brilliant! You're all set to write the midterm paper.
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