Fiction Adaptation: Ideas

I sat down and read the poems given to us and I think that I might do the one by Wilfred Owen - Anthem for a doomed youth (1917).

While reading the poem I had ideas which matched some words, I thought about using flickering candles like is says in the poem, I would use them to represent all the soldiers who fought for us.

Some of my ideas are:

• Sunset over a field 
• Either V/O or words on screen 
• Calm ripples on a lake/sea 
• group of women chatting on a corner dressed from back in the war
• night sky full of stars 
• camera as a POV of someone 
• Rain on flowers 
• Graveyard for remembrance 
• bell tower/church bell 
• shot of selection of war guns 
• tears streaming down cheeks 
• create emotion through sound/music

In the ideas lab I came up with 2 ideas with the help of Charlie, the first one is:

 I was trying not to think of the war theme with soldiers, so I was trying to think of something like war where people fight then I came up with a jungle/safari where with animals its like a war group for food etc. this would be hard to film so would have to compromise so I was thinking about people dressed as animals and to be modern why not dressed in animal onesies. Charlie then said about a house party where "animals" was like a war ground drinking and fighting then passing out like dead bodies across the floor. 

Shot glasses would be candles 

Guns would be sounded with the bass of the music 

Sound effects of a battleground going on

Girls walk home doing the "walk of shame" with smudged make up and last night clothes - representing the soldiers going home after war finishes

The sun rising over the world for a new day without war 

Idea 2:

I was thinking about doing a remembering piece, where the camera was a POV of someone walking around his town and then flashing back to years ago when he was in war in these exact places.

Girls standing outside the theatre dressed like they did back then

We would also hear the sound of guns firing and the sound affects of war

I would have a older man saying the poem/ telling the story 

Ending with the sun setting on the field where he fought our war. 

I have not yet decided which idea i will go with but develop them both and see which one would be better.