Forbidden Love

This week for our english blog prompt we were asked to post videos of troupes of Vampire TV shows. I picked three troupes that I find most reoccurring in Vampire TV shows. I picked the scene where it is an example of the love triangle. Another troupe that I picked, I do not plan on implementing it into my movie, however it is a major troupe, is the burning in the sunlight image.

The next troupe is how vampires have extreme strength.

Incorporating all of these into a three minute scene will be challenging. Especially with the scene we have been assigned. We decided that in order to portray extreme strength we will have Hamlet (Vampire) "throw" Ophelia (love interest) when she attempts to hold his arm. Another troupe we are incorporating is the pale skin. By filming the movie in a dark room lit with candlesticks and silver plates, the skin will shine and appear a whitish tint.

Lights… Camera… Drama

If I were a film director and I was going to remake Hamlet… I would not have it be just a remake of the play, that has been far to overdone.
My remake would be students attempting to remake the play for their theatre class.
I would have the majority of it  take place on the fields at Cambridge University.

                          Who wouldn't want their movie to be here? It's gorgeous
Also at their theatre classroom which is a perfect remake of the Globe theatre.

Even a fake thatched roof!

The traveling scenes will happen around Cambridge, mostly at Kings college, because it is beautiful.
And a few of the other scenes will happen at this beautiful building (as what the camera will pan into as the dorms)

And these dorm rooms for the girls:

And these for the boys:

For my characters I would have:
These people would be played by my main actors:  a director, a Hamlet, a Gertrude, a Claudius, a Ophelia, a Laertes, a Polonius, a Horatio, a Rosencrantz, and a Guildenstern.
These people would be played by random University students: a Ghost, a Voltemand, a Cornelius, a Reynaldo, a Orsic, a few Gentlemen, a Lord, a Fortinbras, a few ambassadors to Denmark.
The director would be Jennifer Morrison

For Hamlet I would have Liam Hemsworth:

I don't think this needs an explanation he is beautiful and amazing.

Next I would have Kelly Rutherford play Gertrude

Then I would have William Baldwin be Cladius

I would have Blake Lively play Ophelia

Then I would have Chace Crawford play Laertes

I would have Matthew Settle as Polonius

Then I would have Cody Allen play Horatio

Then I would have Paul Wesley play Rosencrantz

And finally Keegan Allen play Guildenstern

The basis of my plot line would be this is the theatre students rehearsal. The movie would span from their groups getting assigned to the aftermath of the final production.
I would have the character who plays Hamlet be in love with the character of Ophelia, and the character who plays Horatio (Hamlet's best friend and roommate) in love with the character who plays Ophelia.
Then I would have the first issue in rehearsal being that the character's who play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are fighting over who gets to pledge to which fraternity. And the characters who play Gertrude and Cladius dated each other and had a messy breakup where the character who plays Cladius cheated on the character who plays Gertrude with the director.

I would have the dialect when they are acting out the play be in Shakspearean talk, however, the characters talking between rehearsal, in class, in the dorms, et cetera be in modern English.

The movie would take place in modern day, and to rehearsal and class they would wear normal outfits, the characters who play Gertrude and Ophelia (who are roommates and best friends) will have a very cute and trendy style whereas a few of the extras will wear yoga pants and sweatshirts which the characters Gertrude and Ophelia will gossip about in their dorm room.

It will be a romantic comedy, with a love triangle, hilarious lines, and just drama.

"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt"

You know those days where everything in life has a song that fits perfectly. Or you feel like your life has a perfect playlist. Or there is a song that describes your situation perfectly? Well it could be just me but I always have a song that I play pretty much none stop that fits my life perfectly. Our assignment for English class this week was to create a three song playlist from the point of view of either Hamlet or Ophelia. I decided to do a playlist as if I were Ophelia (shocker since it will probably be really girly.)

My first song is "I won't give up"- by Jason Mraz
I chose this song thinking of Ophelia as she is scrolling through her pictures seeing all the texts she took screen shots of, all the adorable, sweet, quirky, silly, loving things Hamlet sent her, and how now she is determined to have Hamlet get better so everything goes back to normal.

The second song is "The Harold Song" by Kesha.
This song is the epitome of a bad break up song it seems like it would capture what it would feel like to lose someone you care about and then realising what you lost. Since I personally haven't actually been through a break up, it seemed like this song best described every emotion and realisation in the aftermath of the break up.

And lastly…(skip to 2:06 to actually watch the video)

So the third song is "The Fault in our Stars" by Troye Sivan
This song is not particularly good for a break up, but when Ophelia is notice that Hamlet is moody and she is maybe frustrated with Hamlet this song would be a great reprieve. If I was Ophelia and I was thinking back about everything that could have been the lead up to Hamlet's mental break and what I did to cause it, I would need something, anything to get my mind off of it. Personally, I would pick up the actual book and then have this playing on repeat in the back ground until I know every single word and have forgotten about everything besides Hazel and Augustus and their tragic story. (If you haven't read the book… just... just no there is no way someone hasn't read this book.) 

As a bonus song I have "Chocolate" by the 1975.

I put this song because if I were Ophelia this would be what I listen to every night because it is such a feel good song. And because I simply love the song even though the video is kinda really creepy…

Another thing I would do as Ophelia would to take a really long walk across the castle grounds or a park or something and find some field that is secluded and peaceful and I would ready Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher because it is so totally opposite from the situation with Hamlet that it would be a wonderful distraction.

So overall I think distractions are the best medicine for awful breakup/ awkward situations 

My title is from (surprise surprise) The Fault in our Stars  by John Green

It's Shakespeare without the genius of Shakespeare

This week our English teacher started off our assignment with a confession. Now I have one. I am addicted to YouTube.  Every night before I go to bed I watch about 10 videos from my favourite YouTubers.  When I wake up in the morning, usually when I am doing my makeup or eating breakfast I watch about 10 more. 
The majority of the videos I watch are of the people walking around videoing themselves doing random things or just videoing their day. 
What would you think if you saw someone walking around with a camera? Talking to the camera. Just walking and talking. Yup. You would have to look twice to make sure the person was actually doing that.  You would think the person was crazy.
This blog prompt was assigned because we have been reading Shakespeare and many of the characters in his play Hamlet give soliloquies so that the viewer (or reader) has an insight on what the character is thinking. 
Being a blogger on YouTube is an example of a modern day soliloquy.  The blogger is speaking to the camera so that the viewer has an insight on what's going on, and what the YouTuber is thinking. 
In Hamlet the soliloquies are designed by Shakespeare to make an entire plot make sense. In contrast, the beauty of YouTube is that it is people saying whatever they want to say for a comedic effect. 

The genius of Shakespeare is that the characters' seemingly random rantings fit together like puzzle pieces that make the story whole. 

The popular YouTubers are friends with each other, are in each others' videos, and as a result their separate soliloquies do hang together in a certain way. YouTube is a puzzle that has pieces with round edges; they fit together like a necklace. Technically they are all one piece of jewelry, however, the beads seem to have been chosen at random, all working for the same purpose but each bead having its own "personality." 

In Hamlet there is a single author who is moving all the characters which gives the whole a unified voice. In YouTube, by contrast, the author is a collective whose voice is less coherent and less distinctive. 

The genius of Shakespeare is that it is one crazy person- you have to be a little bit crazy to understand the world we live in- standing behind the scenes pulling the strings of all the characters. In YouTube there is no one pulling the strings. The crazy people just say whatever they think. Something of a pattern emerges because of their relations with each other but it is no where near as cohesive as the world of a single author.