Adaptations

The short story that I looked at was the angel by Hans Christian Andersen.  In the beginning of the story it talks about after a good child dies an angel of god comes down from heaven and takes the child to the places they loved during their life then they gather flowers to take to heaven so they can bloom brightly.  As they picked flowers from a place the child often played, later that night the angel had flown over a narrow street and notices a broken flowerpot and saw the withered field flower, the angel picked the flower up and continued to fly as he told the child a story. 

The story was about a sick child who had a flower that he would get up to water and care for but one the boy had died the flower had been left to wither and die. The child asked how he knew this and the angel had said to the little boy “I know it because I myself was the poor sick boy who walked upon crutches, and I know my flower well.”  As the angel had told the child this, the child noticed they has arrived at heaven’s gate.

Once we read and analysed the existing short story, we had to recreate it into a film in our own way by either basing it about a section of the story or using a quote from it. I had used the angel and the little boy’s interaction and the innocence of the child’s death. I had used this idea for my main female character, her back story is about her mother dying and she falls into depression.