I have now finalised my idea for my Fiction adaptation and am planning on scripting and storyboarding sometime this and next week. The narrative is based around The Graveyard Poem by Jim Morrison and in some ways associates with the authors lifestyle. Here is the finalised narrative for my adaptation:
A youth wakes up in a bed which looks unfamiliar, he gets up, puts on his jeans and leaves the room to explore the house. As he leaves the room he enters a dark hallway, as he walks along the corridor he feels that someone is following him (to which we see a tall figure standing behind him, which resembles a beast) he turns around quickly to find no one there, he carries along the hallway to find a set of stairs. He sees beer bottles and cans scattered all over the place which means he must have been at a house party however he finds it strange that for a house party there are no signs of the guests or anyone else. As he heads down the stairs images flash on the screen for less than a second and as these flash up, the youth feels a pain in his head and hold it in pain, he continues to walk down the stairs. He is now on the second floor of the house, still finding it strange that there is no one around he decides to explore the rooms where he finds a bathroom. The bathroom is surprisingly clean and is sparkling white all over, the youth goes to wash his face in the sink to wake himself up a bit. As the youth bends over to wash his face in the sink we see the beast again reflected in the mirror, he is standing right behind the youth. As the youth rises to look in the mirror he sees nothing of the beast however the bathroom is now grotty and brown compared to its earlier state, the youth is confused and leaves the bathroom quite confused. He enters another room to find a window facing out towards the garden, he looks through the window and sees the beast outside in the distance. The youths head starts throbbing again and more images flash up for less than a second, he runs to the door head in hands but bumps into the beast who now blocks his path and falls to the floor. The youth cannot look at the beast straight on, his heart starts beating rapidly as he manages to push past the beast and exit the room, he runs through the hallway but stumbles over still in pain more images flash up and the youth screams in pain, he looks up to see the beast standing on top of him he manages to pull himself away and crawl to the next stair case, he manages to make his way downstairs and runs to the back door. He collapses against the door banging on it repeatedly screaming for help, he tries to open it but it is locked so he makes his way into the living room where he is stopped by the beast. The youth tries to turn back but the beast is split into three entities and surrounds him, he collapses to his knees screaming as images start to flash and the three beasts circle him spinning infinitely. The youth draws enough strength to push away from the beasts and runs towards the front door but the beast blocks his path arms spread not willing to let him pass. The youth still in pain is determined to leave the house, images still flashing and head still in pain charges straight at the beast, he manages to knock the beast over and is right next to the front door. As he places his hand on the door knob the beast utters two lines from the poem "hate to leave, your sacred lay", the youth hears these words and looks back at the beast hunched on the floor with a concerning look as if he is reconsidering leaving the house. He turns away from the beast and opens the door to be blinded by a massive white light and the screen fades to white. As the picture is visible again we see that we are in the same bedroom as we started in the first scene. We see the youth sprawled across the bed with a needle in one hand and a rope tied around his upper arm, we then hear the last words from the beast as we look down upon the youth "Dread the milky coming of day"
Morrison died in 1971 due to a heroine overdose which plays a big part for the ending of the piece. The whole story is the youth exploring his mind after taking heroine, his mind is represented by the house itself and as he explores different rooms this is him looking into different parts of his mind. He finds the room which he wakes up in unfamiliar due to the heroine affecting his memory which is why he finds the house so unfamiliar. Each room represents a different part of the youth himself, the bathroom represents his innocence once pure white but now brown and dirty due to drug abuse and the room with the window doesn't focus so much on the room itself but the window as he looks out and sees what other people think of him, paranoid that people may think badly of him he represses these thoughts thus actually hurting himself in the process. The beast can be looked at in a variety of ways, it can be perceived as the demons that live in the youths mind which he overcomes or could be the youth himself trying to save what's left of his tattered mind. The photos that flash up for a fraction of a second and pictures of the youth taking the heroine, the pictures will flash up too fast for the audience to see so will not spoil the ending. And finally the final "mind" scene represents the moment where the youth has left his mind meaning death and loss of sanity.
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