Holes: The Movie: Recently, many books have been remade into movies. However, movies often don’t stay true to the original plot line and even the ones that do are still forced to cut out scenes to keep the movie under three hours. How well does Disney translate the book from page to film?
Objective: Students will be able to compare two very different types of media, and will be able to use their creativity to think about how they would translate the book to film.
Materials: Disney’s Holes
Directions:
1. Watch the movie.
2. Write a review of Disney’s Holes. Do you think they good job creating the book into the movie? What scenes and/or characters did they portray particularly well? What could they have done differently?
3. Write a script for a book/movie trailer. Scripts do not have to include dialogue (they could just be a series of images). Think about what kind of sound you would pair with the images (music, dialogue, thunder, wind, rain, rattlesnakes, lizards, silence).
4. Write out some directorial choices on how you would film a scene from Sachar’s Holes. Think about set, lighting, costuming, camera position, blocking (where people stand), and the speech of the characters (tone, volume, accents). Why would you make these directorial choices? What would you be hoping to convey to the audience?
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