Monday, November 30, 2009

For my final creative project, I'm going to give Count Dracula a Facebook account. The idea was given at the beginning of the class, and it has seemed interesting to me ever since. I will incorporate all major characters as they interact with the Vampire through Wall Posts and status updates. Each of the major characters - Quincey, Mina, Lucy, the Count, Van Helsing, Seward, Jonathon, and Arthur - will also have their own pages, complete with their own status updates, wall posts, and profiles.

This project will rely heavily on the idea that though the characters were written to exist in another time, they speak, live, and post in our own, and therefore the ideas and thoughts and even interactions will be bent to fit not just their time but our own digital age. In other words answering the question: what would the characters of Dracula be like in the year 2009? It also works well as a method for exploring each character's motivations and interactions with each other.

1 comment:

  1. Aaron, I think this sounds like a great project, but you may want to focus on just a handful of characters. That way, you can really delve into their facebook "personalities" and work to construct quality "notes," comments, photos with captions, etc.

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