Techniques Unique to Each Medium (Literature)

Question 1

Page: "Mara signed the letter. Her hand did not shake." Filmed version: the camera stays on her hands for the whole shot and never shows her face. What does the camera choice add?

Accepted Answer

We watch her steadiness instead of being told it, and her face stays private.

Answer

It makes her seem nervous, since we never see her calm face.

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It shows us what the letter says, which the page keeps hidden.

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It shows her hand shaking, which reverses what the sentence says.

Question 2

Page: "The house was quiet when Dev opened the door." Filmed version: a low humming score begins several seconds before he touches the handle. What does the music add that the sentence does not?

Accepted Answer

Dread arrives before the door opens, so we expect trouble the words never name.

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It shows Dev is calm, since the music is low and soft.

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It breaks the quiet, so the house no longer feels silent.

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It tells us exactly what danger is waiting behind the door.

Question 3

Page: "They argued in the kitchen until midnight." Staged version: the overhead lights fade until one table lamp lights only the two faces. What does the lighting contribute?

Accepted Answer

It narrows the scene to two faces, so the quarrel feels closed in and private.

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It shows the argument has ended and the two have made peace.

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It makes the kitchen feel wide and open around the two speakers.

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It tells us which of the two speakers wins the argument.

Question 4

Page: "I forgave him, once." Staged version: the actor stops for a full three seconds after "forgave him" before saying the last word. What does that pause do to the line?

Accepted Answer

It stretches the comma so "once" lands as a limit rather than an afterthought.

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It makes "once" sound rushed, as if the speaker barely means it.

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It shows the speaker has now decided to forgive him again.

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It shows the speaker has forgotten what to say next.

Question 5

Page: "Looking back, I know now that the ladder was never safe." Filmed version: a child climbs the ladder and no voice speaks over the scene. What does the film lose?

Accepted Answer

The older speaker's hindsight is gone, leaving only the child's moment.

Answer

The climb itself, which only the page described in detail.

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The look of the ladder, which only the page could describe.

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The child's fear, which cannot be shown without spoken words.

Question 6

Page: "Rain fell all evening on the tin roof." Audio version: a steady rattle of rain plays under every line of the scene. What does the continuous sound do that the sentence cannot?

Accepted Answer

It keeps the rain present under the talk instead of mentioning it once.

Answer

It shows the rain getting heavier as the scene goes on.

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It drowns out the talk so the lines are hard to follow.

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It tells us the roof is tin, which the sentence never says.

Question 7

Page: "Ms. Ryle stood in the doorway and asked for the note." Filmed version: the camera sits at desk height and looks up at her. What does that angle add?

Accepted Answer

It puts us at the student's eye level, so Ms. Ryle looms in the shot.

Answer

It looks down on her, so she seems small and powerless.

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It puts us at her eye level, so we see the room as she does.

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It makes her seem friendly and close, like a classmate at the next desk.

Question 8

Page: "The market was loud and full." Filmed version: the market scene is shot in washed-out grays, while a later scene is richly colored. What does the color choice change?

Accepted Answer

It drains the crowd, cooling a scene the words had made lively.

Answer

It makes the market feel brighter and livelier than the words did.

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It shows how crowded the market is, just as the words say.

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It adds the noise of the market that the sentence describes.

Question 9

Page: "The crowd cheered as Nina crossed the line." Filmed version: all sound cuts out for three seconds as she crosses, then returns. What does the silence add?

Accepted Answer

It pulls us inside Nina's head at the moment the words showed the crowd.

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It shows the crowd has gone quiet because Nina lost the race.

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It shows the crowd stopped cheering to watch her finish.

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It cuts the scene short so the race seems to end faster.

Question 10

Page: Rosa's thought is printed in italics, "I will not tell them." Staged version: the actor steps forward and says the line to the audience while the others freeze. What does the staging do?

Accepted Answer

It lets the audience hear a thought the other characters still do not know.

Answer

It lets the other characters learn the secret Rosa means to keep.

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It turns Rosa's private thought into the view everyone on stage holds.

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It forces the audience to guess at what Rosa is thinking.

Question 11

Page: "They traveled three days to reach the coast." Multimedia version: a line crawls slowly across a wide map while a narrator reads that sentence. What does the crawling line add?

Accepted Answer

It shows how far the journey stretched, which the sentence counted only in days.

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It shows the trip was short, since the line crosses the map in moments.

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It shows each town where they stopped to rest every night.

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It replaces the sentence, so the narrator no longer needs to read it.

Question 12

Page: "'Fine,' she shouted." Staged version: the actor says "Fine" quietly, then turns away without another word. What does that acting choice change?

Accepted Answer

The anger turns cold rather than loud, so the outburst the words named is gone.

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The anger grows louder, matching the shout the words describe.

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The line now sounds calm and content, as if she truly agrees.

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The anger disappears, so she no longer seems upset at all.

Question 13

Page: the captain's speech is printed as one paragraph, read in silence. Filmed version: he delivers it on a dock to hundreds of shouting sailors. What does the change add?

Accepted Answer

The speech becomes a public act, and the crowd's answer becomes part of its meaning.

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The words of the speech are cut short by the noise of the crowd.

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The speech becomes more private, as if he speaks only to himself.

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The speech now shows his thoughts instead of his spoken words.

Question 14

Page: "The morning passed in one long blur of chores." Filmed version: twelve one-second shots of hands working flash by. What does that editing do?

Accepted Answer

It makes us feel the blur that the sentence could only report.

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It slows the morning down so each chore feels long and heavy.

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It shows each chore in careful detail so we learn how it is done.

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It tells us exactly how many chores there were that morning.

Question 15

Page: "Amir heard the crowd, but he watched only the ball." Filmed version: the ball is sharp and everything behind it is blurred. What does the focus choice add?

Accepted Answer

It places us inside Amir's narrowed attention instead of reporting it.

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It removes the crowd from the scene, contradicting the printed line.

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It makes the crowd matter more than the ball, since it fills the frame.

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It shows that Amir cannot hear the crowd at all.

Question 16

Page: "Grief sat in the room like an uninvited guest." Filmed version: an empty chair by the window is held in one long, still shot. What does the film leave out?

Accepted Answer

The comparison itself, since the shot suggests absence but states no figure.

Answer

Any sense that the room feels heavy after the family's loss.

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The visual detail of the chair standing beside the window.

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The stillness of the room, which the long shot cannot hold.

Question 17

Page: "Nobody mentioned the train that had taken her away." Staged version: a distant whistle sounds once at the end of the scene, and no character reacts. What does the sound do?

Accepted Answer

It keeps her leaving present for us while the characters go on ignoring it.

Answer

It shows the characters finally admitting what they refuse to say.

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It shows the train is bringing her back home at last.

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It moves the scene out to the platform at the station.

Question 18

Page: "The stranger's coat was too fine for the village." Filmed version: the actor wears a plain coat while every villager wears rags. What does the costume choice change?

Accepted Answer

The contrast now comes from the villagers' rags rather than the coat's fineness.

Answer

The stranger's coat becomes finer than the printed sentence described.

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The stranger now looks as poor as the villagers around him.

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The gap between the stranger and the village disappears.

Question 19

Page: a scene of fast dialogue with "he said" and "she said" tags. Audio version: a different actor voices each character, and the tags are dropped. What does the casting do?

Accepted Answer

The voices do the work the tags did, so each speaker is clear without them.

Answer

The audio adds lines of dialogue the printed scene never contained.

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The listener can no longer tell who is speaking without the tags.

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A narrator still reads each tag aloud between the lines.

Question 20

Page: "Kofi said nothing for a long time." Filmed version: the camera pushes in slowly on his face for twenty seconds while no one speaks. What does the slow push-in add?

Accepted Answer

The wait becomes time we sit through, and his face fills the silence.

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The push-in shows that Kofi is about to speak at last.

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The push-in shortens the silence so the scene moves faster.

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The push-in moves our attention from Kofi out to the room.

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Ways to Play

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Board Games: Teacher-led, projected to the class

Like what you see?

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