FICTION ADAPTATION: PLANNING, FINDING A VOICE AND LOCATION

I have narrowed down my choices for a voice I began with different ideas for a voice type, but have now settled on the voice that will suit and be most interesting. I have based these choices from the type of recordings they have on their voices pro pages.

The choices:

• Robert Blythe: voice similar to Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins, traditional English. 
• Jeremy Greenaway: More presenter type for radio and tv 
• Terence Pickering: the voice I will probably use if I can get him of course, he does a perfect Herbert Asquith WWI announcement much like the radio of the time which I think will be an interesting voice for my project. 

I think with my poem its about contrasts between the traditional British phone box and the changing environment surrounding it. So I think the use of a projector in my red room will be quite effective. The idea brought me back to the Jaguar adverts released in the last couple of years.

If I can pull it off I can see it being successful and also be a way for me to show the other images in the poem on the background or on the actor, much like they do in the adverts. Definitely not going for same kind of suave style shown in these ads although I would love to, my poem has a different type of story.

Location

For my location the most important thing is space and time to be able to pull off something like this. I have looked into 2 options:

• Barming Parish Hall where Michael Hoad filmed his fiction a year ago which I was a part of. It would cost me something, but is a a really nice open space to play with also with plug sockets

• Cheaper option would be lecture room 2 in our base room. As it already has a projector in it and could be easily transformed into the red box I need. Less space in the room however would possibly prevent versatility.

This would be the main location and then I would have to film other parts separately like street markets, trucks, graffiti, maybe Lewes road itself. I could use the trip to Brighton for Plamen's film (on which I will be DoP) as an opportunity to film some things to be projected on the background (Plamen being my DoP).