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1. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare was originally written for the stage as a play; however, the story has been conveyed successfully to audiences for over four hundred years through prose, poetry, operas, works of art, and most notably, film. These are all example of types of __________ .

• media
• traits
• magazines
• business

2. The story of Romeo and Juliet was successfully translated to film in 1968 by director Franco Zefferelli and later in 1996 by Baz Luhrman starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes. In 2013 another glimpse of the star-crossed lovers could be seen with the release of director Carlo Carlei’s adaptation. How might the storytelling techniques be affected in its transition from stage to screen?

• Camera use in films would allow the audience to feel closer to the characters.
• Various sized sets could accommodate extended action scenes.
• Both a and b
• Neither a or b

3. The above works by Robert Browning are an example of what type of medium?

• chapters from a written story
• stage directions from a play
• lines of poetry
• camera angles for a film

4. Looking at Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning,” with the idea of translating the two poems to a short film, maintaining the original meaning of the poems, what specific techniques could one use to highlight the story of a man’s path to meet with his love?

• The short film would allow for added characters and added lines, which in-turn would change the original poem’s meaning.
• The short film would open to a new interpretation by allowing the director to change the setting to a wooded valley with new lighting and music.
• The short film would allow for selective lighting and beach location shooting while introduction a new character to the story to divide the man from his love.
• The short film would allow for selective lighting and beach location shooting, camera close-ups, and the ability to editing for precise interpretation.

5. Consider the poems from Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning,” what specific disadvantages would both mediums encounter when translating to a staged play or a short film?

• The disadvantages would be that the settings of the sea, beach, fields, farms, might be difficult to replicate on stage for such a limited written source of medium.
• The disadvantages would be that the characters, the music and the lighting would not be available to incorporate into the presentation on stage or film.
• The disadvantages would be that the director would not have any written source to build the stage or film presentation from.
• The disadvantage would be that the intense dialogue between the two characters would be difficult to bring to the stage and film production.