creative response

For our essays, instead of writing an essay I decided to do the creative response. So, me and three other people from our class made a video on the Glass Menagerie. We did sort of a modern take on some of the scenes from the Williams' play. I played Tom the the drunk son wkho just wanted to get away from his mother and see the world. I was put in charge by the mother, Amanda, to find a date for my sister Laura played by Carly. I think Carly did a great job in the video especially when it comes to the dancing scene. We put a twist in the play and made the gentleman caller, Jim, for Laura an African-American. Amanda's character of course does not like the idea of having a black man date her daughter, but as the video goes she is just happy to have a gentleman caller for Laura. I think that had this been written into the original play, Williams would have had Amanda act a lot worse towards the caller than we had her portrayed as doing. All in all it was a fun and interesting learning experience. Not only did I learn how to incorporate scenes from a play into a movie and mash them with some modern takes, but I also got to learn how to use windows movie maker and how to edit which ended up taking a lot longer then I thought. The video turned out great though. A+ material of course!!