What's your personal opinion about Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast? Was that a good adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel? Explain!
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I will post some comments and questions about the topics discussed in class and you have to participate expressing your own points of view. You need to check the blog constantly 'cause depending on your classmates' opinions or ideas, you will answer. It means that you must participate more than once for each comment I post. Make the blog a dynamic window where we can share links, ideas and opinions that can help us learn more about the British and American Literature.
I will post some comments and questions about the topics discussed in class and you have to participate expressing your own points of view. You need to check the blog constantly 'cause depending on your classmates' opinions or ideas, you will answer. It means that you must participate more than once for each comment I post. Make the blog a dynamic window where we can share links, ideas and opinions that can help us learn more about the British and American Literature.
Well teacher as you know I have not read the novel, but I think this adaptation was very good and also real.The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress.
ResponderEliminarThere was a detailed description of the events such as: explosions on the planet Mars,the fall of a cylindrical meteorite in Grover's Mill,New Jersey, the arrival of the Martians , the construction of machines like tripods which would be used later to destroy human beings. Also in these transmissions are recounted as the military attempts were useless and these machines were destroying places,things and people.
I try to imagine the panic of listeners because in that time there was no television. It must have been terrible.
I agree with diana, I think the adaptation was wonderful, the special effects used seem real as that caused panic in people at that time, the interruption was made in the regular programming gave a touch of drama,the voices were real actors which gave credibility
ResponderEliminarWell as you know i couldn´t listen to the radio program, nevertheless, according to my viewpoint in that period of time radio was the best way to know a lot of things it means that the only way to be well informed and to have a good time listening to a novel adaption was through the radio. So, in this sense you have to take into consideration the narrative due to people who work with those things have to apply many effects in order to print more interest by the listener.
ResponderEliminarYeah! I think the adaptation was GREEEEAAAAATTTT!!! I loved it! What about the rest of students? What do you think about it? Have you been working on the script of your radio's broadcast? Have you taken aspects from the one we listened to last class? Why?
ResponderEliminarIn the 1930´s people used to listen to the radio as a means for being informed all the time. Instead of at the beginning of the radio programm was said that this was an adaptation of H.G Well´s novel, those people who started to listen to the program late believed that the events ocurred were real, why? because the special effects used were really fantastics, moreover there was not a way of knowing whether that situation was real or not. I think this radio program was a good adaptation of the original novel, at least until where I´ve read so far!
ResponderEliminarBefore the era of T.V., people sat in front of their radios and listened to music, news reports, plays and various other programs for entertainment. Radio was the main source of media at the time. In that radio show the transit of information was a little different because missed the announcement that the whole thing was fictional.
ResponderEliminarI agree with all my teammates, I think the story is excellent adaptation of the book, although I have not fully read the story. I find impressive as narrated the fall of meteorites that correspond to the Martian ships containers. I think many people thought the invasion was real, the facts were reported as news and had good effects.
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ResponderEliminaryes teacher, we have been working on
ResponderEliminarthe script of our radio's broadcast taking into account some aspects from the one we listened to last class,because we consider that Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast was good adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel. It was excellent and very similar to book of war of the worlds. As I said before this adaptation was real for many people because the sound effects were very good and the events were reported as if they were going at that time.
It's happend when we want to tell a story we make an adaption according to our point of view it means when we try to create new stories we have to take into account a set of things, instead of being behind the plot the writer could be inside.
ResponderEliminarOn the other hand, the elements which imply the makeup of each characters and the situations where they will be involved will create a kind of fabric that weaves the story to give an uncertain ending.
The radio was the source of information for people, I¨m agree with my classmates when they say that the radio broadcast we listened in the last class was very perfect, it was a good adaptation to the novel...
ResponderEliminarand yes teacher we have been working in the radio broadcast. although we are still preparing it and the aspects are taked for making of it something more interesting and real.
Well my dear friends I can say that War of the Worlds revealed how the power of mass communications could be used to create panic, theatrical illusions and manipulate public.
ResponderEliminarOne of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history: Orson Welles' 1938 radio play about Martians invading New Jersey. "The War of the Worlds" is believed to have fooled over a million people when it originally aired, and it's continued to fool people since--from Santiago, Chile to Buffalo, New York to a particularly disastrous evening in Quito, Ecuador because as I said before many people thought that a real invasion was happening at this time.
well, yes teacher! I tried to write the script of radio's broadcast that we listened of the best way, taking into account that we heard before. As I said I loved the radio show because the situations were very well presented and narrated. One of the things that I liking were as were narrated commercials
ResponderEliminarYes friend, I¨m totally agree with your opinion, many times the way to communicate some information is not the correct, nevertheless, sometimes the audience does`t know to hear the information transmitted by the radio correctly, and it was what happened in that time. many people thought that the invasion was real without hearing what was really happening.
ResponderEliminarwe used some aspects such as a meteor where a starship arrived to our planet and the US Army shooting against the aliens, moreover, a reporter is who tell the facts to the audience through a radio program. a scientist or expert in these themes is on radio station sharing his knowledge about UFOs.
ResponderEliminarI did not like science fiction, but I reading, watching and listening novels on this subject I have found interesting and fun things to the imagination that have not yet seen is really interesting.
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