Fiction Adaptation - Thoughts on starting and what topics will be covered

So glad to be back! Had so much time off its great to finally be doing something productive with my life. But I digress. I'm feeling this new piece of work, I've had several thoughts about what kind of thing I am looking for, but I think I have one that I feel passionate about, after reading the poems and finding out which ones sound the best to me, I have gone for ANTHEM FOR A DOOMED YOUTH. Something about the way it is written can be ambiguous and can mean anything, so I wanted to focus on the current events happening in the world, in regards to syria/isis/iraq. Not that I have the resources to focus on that. I want to focus on something a bit more closer to home. Now I know a couple of years ago a soldier was beheaded in woolwich, a terrifying incident but I don't want to focus on that.

More about fanaticism, how the bloke who beheaded someone was so deluded by a cult that he decided to commit atrocities. Now this is still straying far from what I want to achieve but its getting there. It's more of a case of a man is kidnapped (maybe in someones car boot) and he can hear the captors tap;king in arabic, perhaps referring to an event that they may carry out. This is a very loose description but you see where I am going. I have many friends who speak fluent arabic and would be able to translate some garble that can be thrown underneath the narration of the character. the character can reflect the title (doomed youth) as most people who are captured by militant muslims are normally killed in a sadistic way, I feel I can produce a short that can reflect this.

However, We do have to cover a case study for our Essay which basically ponders on the question if adaptations can be successful without the original media and if straying from the original media can affect the original fans of it. I will be covering the graphic novel The Walking Dead and it's counterpart on AMC of the same name. Below is an image that illustrates this point. I will be covering on my blog about how successful the novel was and how successful the tv show is by itself.