ideas

my main idea for this project came from the idea of one of my fave writers, and trying to create an adaptation of his works, im unsure of yet if i want to pick one short story or maybe even just take snippets from different storys to build up a story or plot. but thats one of the main things i will need to work on, a basic plot and script, as well as doing a storyboard and even a few mockups, experiments as well as castings and such. im abit nervous as ive never undertaken a narrative piece like this on my own before. but i just want to see how it will develop and how i manage to get on with it, this basic idea may change from a narrative peice to more an abstract peice which is more what im used to.

i wanted to work on sound and the idea of either a script built in dialog or a narration over the top and different ways of doing this. 

To start off with i need to do abit of reaserch on his work, existing adaptations, referenced to him, also to see if theyres anywhere in the uk for me to visit, his work of course was wrote in the USA. but to begin abit of a brief biography:

Edgar Allan Poe 1809 –1849 was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Growing up, he dealt with a lot of pain, being orphaned young by his mothers death following being abandoned by his father. while he was taken in by the ALLAN family he was never formally adopted. And in death Poe had no better luck, having  been attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents. When he tried to make a living out of his writing, the era and industry made it hard for any American writer to make a living. After starting to attempt at poetry, after his brothers death Poe turned to prose, which is when he started with his short stories. As his wifes health deteriorated at a young age due to TB, Poe started to drink, and the premature death of his wife inspired much of his work. Poe’s death remains a mystery but again at a premature age of just 40.  On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance", according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849, at 5:00 in the morning. Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own. Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name "Reynolds" on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring. Some sources say Poe's final words were "Lord help my poor soul." All medical records, including his death certificate, have been lost. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as "congestion of the brain" or "cerebral inflammation", common euphemisms for deaths from disreputable causes such as alcoholism.The actual cause of death remains a mystery.

Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic, a genre he followed to appease the public taste. His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.Beyond horror, Poe also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes. For comic effect, he used irony and ludicrous extravagance, often in an attempt to liberate the reader from cultural conformity.During his lifetime, Poe was mostly recognized as a literary critic. Fellow critic James Russell Lowell called him "the most discriminating, philosophical, and fearless critic upon imaginative works who has written in America", though he questioned if he occasionally used prussic acid instead of ink. Poe was also known as a writer of fiction and became one of the first American authors of the 19th century to become more popular in Europe than in the United States. Poe is particularly respected in France, in part due to early translations by Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire's translations became definitive renditions of Poe's work throughout Europe.

Poe's early detective fiction tales starring the fictitious C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, "Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed.... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" The Mystery Writers of America have named their awards for excellence in the genre the "Edgars". Poe's work also influenced science fiction, notably Jules Verne, who wrote a sequel to Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket called An Antarctic Mystery, also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields. Science fiction author H. G. Wells noted, "Pym tells what a very intelligent mind could imagine about the south polar region a century ago."