McDonald

CAPSTONE PROJECT PROPOSAL

GUIDELINES

As you draft your Capstone Project proposal, be sure to include the following elements:

 

  1. Basic information:
    1. Name:

Rebecca C. Serrano

  1. Date:

02 Sep 2017

 

  1. Working title of the project:

The Relationship Between Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and its Visual Adaptation in Disney’s 1951 film.

 

  1. Faculty Mentor who has agreed to serve as a resource and reader for your project (if any).

LtCol Ticen

 

  1. Background and rationale: In one paragraph, explain your motivations for undertaking
    the project you’ve chosen and how it grows out of previous coursework in ERHS (e.g., by reimagining and expanding a previous work completed in a course; deepening your study of a figure, work, concept, period, or movement you’ve studied in an earlier course; investigating productive intersections in your coursework by drawing ideas from different classes together to form a project).

This idea arrived when I was in my Language and Style class with Maj Iddings. In this class, my last paper I looked at a screenplay from the original Star Trek television series. This perked my interest in how much the text to the actual visual show.  In British Literature, we also looked at Frankenstein and with this we looked and the visual representation as used in moves and propaganda.

In my own personal curiosity and possible interest into becoming a screen play writer myself, I have continually tried to incorporate film into many of my projects that I have had the possibility to look at interaction in film and how it works. Film and literature isn’t something that is spoken about often and I think it is an important part of our surroundings.

 

 

  1. Project Overview: In one paragraph, describe your project in as much detail as possible.

 

In this project I would like to look at Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and its visual interpretation by Disney Studios in the form of a movie. I want to look at the discrepancies between the two are. Still looking at what could make a great thesis.

 

I want to look at not only the process that goes into the film but the why one scene was chosen over another. The transition from literature to visual is difficult because there are many people to please when the film is based off a book. There is the interpretation and the possibility to complete the project and if it is doable or not. All the factors that play into making a film.

 

  1. Methodology: In one paragraph, describe how you will conduct your research, writing, or other relevant activities during the process (e.g., locate archival materials, analyze primary literary works).

 

Working with my advisor I plan to look at the articles on the subject and evaluating what will make a good research and narrowing it down to a more narrow topic. Looking at Disney and the companies past experience with children’s movies and transforming tales into visual representations.

 

  1. Significance and Context: In one paragraph, describe significance and the context of your research and writing, including the exigence, audience, and purpose of your project.

This project aim to look at the information that is taken from a text to its visual adaptation and determining what is important and what isn’t. Film allows you to connect with the material in a different way, it is a way of immersing yourself with all your senses and allowing it to take you. The text, it is more determined on your imagination and if you don’t understand a reference it is more difficult to understand what is happening in the story. I want to show the importance of taking stories and providing more ways to look at the information presented.

 

  1. Preliminary bibliography:
    1. MLA-formatted citations for 2-3 possible “primary” sources (e.g. novels, poems, philosophical texts, archival materials, artworks).

 

Disney, Walt. Alice in Wonderland.

 

Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. Bath, UK, Parragon, 2010.

 

 

 

  1. MLA-formatted citations for 3-5 possible “secondary” sources (e.g. scholarly, peer-reviewed articles).
  2. MLA-formatted citations for any additional miscellaneous sources (e.g. popular press articles).