Connor's Lit and Perf Blog

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5D-85GXk4

1) My visión for this project was to bring this older story, “The Story of an Hour” down to a teenager’s level and help teenagers relate to this story more. 2) I did not maintain a lot of the original story. I kept roughly the same amount of characters, I kept the tone roughly the same, and I made sure my story had a twist at the end just as the original story did. 3) I changed the setting, the time period, the plot, and main details in the story to make it more relatable for teenagers. 4) The main character is pregnant, and fakes that her dad died to get her friends back. Her friends find out she was lying and never talks to her again. 5) I feel that my photos for my climax are my strongest parts so far. 6) I feel I need to work more on my quotes for each picture within my video. 7) It has helped me understand how to build up suspense in a story, how to portray each character in unison, and how to take a story and change it into a different setting and time period. 8) It has he...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KmMinlQx5EHcPkiErixWouEcLl_xxZKA

Genre- Drama Characters- Becky, Becky's friends, her dad Setting- A high school in a small town, present day Plot- there are rumors going all around school that Becky is pregnant, is it true? How does she deal with it? Pivotal Moments- rumor starts that Becky is pregnant all of her friends ghost her her reputation is ruined in her town to try to save herself, she fakes that her dad died her friends come back to her to support her Becky thinks she successfully got her friends back and there's no way they'll leave her again Climax- Becky is getting picked up from school the next day, and it's her dad waiting in the car when she gets off the bus Resolution- All her friends realize that Becky lied just so that she would get her friends back. None of them ever talked to Becky ever again

To modernize this story, I would bring the technology of that time up to date, make the characters and quotes more relatable to people from our time, and I would add more emotion and effects as well. One way I would do this would to be to set this story in a high school. For example, a friend tells someone to tell someone a rumor they heard, it gets all over social media, all just to find out the horrible rumor was not true.