My Final Version of the Ghost Scene of 'Hamlet'.

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Luke Morley 11 GV

My Final Version of the Ghost Scene of ‘Hamlet’

          We have been studying the play ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare. We have read the original text as well as watching three film versions of the play one by Zefferelli, Branagh and Almieda. We have been concentrating mainly on the ghost scenes in these three films. We also worked on an unusual ghost scene, which we made into a comical ghost scene in a little booklet.

          I have chosen to do a film production. I have chosen to do this because after watching the three film versions of the ghost scene it has given me ideas of costumes, settings and how to produce the ghost to make him stand out, also in the film you can use special effects and a lot more than you can do in a theatre production of the ghost scene in ‘Hamlet’.

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            I want my setting to be set in a castle on a staircase leading down towards the cellar/basement of the castle. I want the set to seem very cold, dark and musty with a real feel of tension in the air. I want the sound of the ghosts voice to be unnatural and decayed, with slow unnatural music playing quietly in the background and I want a sharp possibly loud noise of music on certain words Hamlet or the ghost use to emphasise them so people know the word has some sort of ...

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