Dulce et Decorum Est

Director’sBooklet

It is your job to create a storyboard that shows how you would direct the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’.

You are required to identify lines from poem that you would like to try and portray in film format.

You will also need to demonstrate your knowledge of camera angles and their effects.

Drawing showing what the shot would look like.

“Line from thePoem”

In this box you will discuss the following points:- What image this line creates- Any language features that

are being used (e.g. simile, metaphor, alliteration, repetition, word choice)

CAMERA SHOT: _____________________

DESIRED EFFECT:

(here you will explain, in detail, why you have chosen this camera shot and what effect you hope to create by using it. Think about links to the meaning of the line from the poem you have chosen)

OTHER DETAILS:

(here make details of anything else you might like to include:- Lighting- Sound- Costume- Special effects

“men marched asleep”

This is a metaphor because the men are not actually asleep but they might as well be as they are so tired. The battle has absolutely exhausted them to the point where they march like zombies back towards the trenches.

CAMERA SHOT: Long shot

DESIRED EFFECT:

This shot will show the entire line of men from head to toe. Their heads will be bowed to show their tiredness. The camera will be fixed and the shot will allow me to show them marching past slowly in a seemingly never-ending line, to represent the never-ending nature of their struggles.

OTHER DETAILS:

- I will film this in slow mention to emphasise their tiredness.

- For sound, I will exaggerate the sounds of their footsteps.