21ST Century
Creative Adaptation of Literary Works Characteristics of Literature
ADAPTATION
Literary adaptation is adjusting a literary source to another type or medium, like a film,
stage play, or song.
FOUR TYPES OF LITERARY ADAPTATION
Museum Adaptation
Artful Adaptation
Loose Adaptation
Transformative Adaptation
Museum Adaptation
This is concerned with preserving every possible detail of the literary source, and how it is
transferred to another genre or medium.
Example: jane austen, adapted by Andrew davies
Artful Adaptation
This is mostly concerned with finding a balance between being true to its source material
and creating a film that can stand on its own as a work of art.
Example: Pride and Prejudice (2005) by Deborah waga based on jane austen’s novel
Loose Adaptation
This keeps a few elements or some semblance of the premise of the literary source and
changes some scenes to be more interesting and exciting in another medium or genre.
Example: Twilight (2008)
Transformative Adaptation
This sets its source works in time period and takes place in different culture to emphasize
the timelessness and universality of the source work’s messages and themes.
Example: Into the woods (2014)
MULTIMEDIA
Is a presentation of material that uses both words and pictures in a combination oftext,
voice, pictures or video.
Videos
It’s an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of
moving visual media.
Example formtas: WMV, AVI, MPEG, FLASH MP3 and MP4
MPEG (.MPG/ .MPEG)
Developed by the Moving Pictures Expert Group. The first popular video format on the web.
Not supported anymore in HTML.
AVI (.AVI)
(Audio Video Interleave). Developed by Microsoft commonly used in video cameras and TV
hardware. Plays well on
WMA (.WMA)
(Windows Media Audio). Developed by Microsoft Plays well on Windows computers, but not
in web browsers.
FLASH (SWF/ SMALL WEB FILE)
Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content over the Internet
using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer.
MP3 (.MP3)
MP3 files are actually the sound part of MPEG files. MP3 is the most popular format for
music players. Combines good compression (small files) with high quality. Supported by all
browsers.
MP4 (.MP4)
MP4 is a video format, but can also be used for audio. Supported by all browsers.