In terms of how I want my fiction adaptation to come across, I would like it to be a combination story and montage. I have intended it to be a narrative driven piece that will engage audiences and allow them to relate and understand the characters with a few elements of visual imagery that will symbolise the words of the poem in an abstract way that shouldn't come across as too literal. When thinking about the narrative, I decided to focus on a few elements and think about what that says to me. The idea of the 'mannequin' gave me a few ideas, deciding that I wanted it to be a person rather than just a artificial figure. I worked through the poem, line by line, thinking about how to interpret it. The line 'We are throwing stones into Brighton's ocean lips while we try to solve each problem', I particularly focussed on the idea of solving a problem which said to me that the characters are getting away to talk over the thing that is troubling one of them.
There is a line of dialogue 'it's nice to be lost somewhere no-one can get you', I interpreted this by relating the idea of someone menacing who she is afraid of being the mannequin, she is desperately trying to recover from.
Some of the dialogue was very difficult to interpret such as 'you look thin, if you die soon, can I eat your ribs'. As this is coming from one of the characters, I felt like this was very strange and difficult to place in a narrative. Therefore, I have planned to use an element of visual imagery to illustrate this so that is more of an abstract element. Other montage elements I want to include the line 'I want to tell her that she burns everything'. For this, I plan to show a messy bedroom, highlighting every day destruction rather than something overly vivid like burning something.
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