The significance of this scene is that the events of the scene start the chain of events that lead to Santiago Nasar’s death. The motivation for the murder is created within this scene and it acts as a nexus point for all of the other scenes in the book. The events of the wedding between Angela and Bayardo ultimately led up to this moment since Angela knew from the beginning that she was not a virgin and would not be accepted as a suitable bride. Then the events of the murder all stem from this scene. Thus, the importance of this scene is that it links together the two different plotlines presented within The Chronicle of a Death Foretold. The process we utilized in order to convert the text to a script was similar to the process used to translate …show more content…
We then described the physical action of the characters based on the dialogue and the intonation. The final step was to do camera angles and the audience’s views. These were chosen in order to allow for the audience to understand the scene as well as possible and have as much information as possible. We did not try and remove too much from the scene in order to keep as accurate as possible, but in order to make it easier to film and watch, a large portion of the narration that was used to describe the character’s actions were turned into actual dialogue. We also noticed that the extract jumped between the present and the past so in order to communicate this to the audience we presented the scene in a format that utilizes flashbacks and flash forwards. Since, I had very few lines to annotate in the script, because my character had little dialogue, I focused heavily on what the camera angles were going to be at different parts of the scene. These are incredibly important because they determine how the audience will view the scene and determine how effective the physical actions and emphasis of words