Tell Tale Heart Film Vs Film

The film animation of Tell Tale Heart was a great adaptation of the story by Edgar Allen Poe because it matched the tone of the story. The adaptation used the narrator to match the tone of the characters being presented. The abstract animation gave the story a lot more power. Poe stresses insanity of the mind and mental illnesses in majority of his work. The story itself was more abstract on how descriptive the character was in describing the old man and his feeling towards him. The environment and time of day makes the story more erie. The depiction of shadows, coloring, and characters that were shown in the video had similar tone as if the word from the story was being presented in the animation. The narrator’s sanity is sensitive and on the verge of a break down towards this man. This old’s man existence ,mainly his eye, really bother’s the narrator because of the way …show more content…
The changing colors from dim, to dark and the camera angles show the nervousness. Sound was a big importance to this scene because he claims he can still hear his heart when in fact that was his own heart beating fast. The camera angle made it seem very cluster phobic even though he was about to get away with the murder due to his own insanity/guilt. The tone of voice in his mind starts to speed up but was calm, but as he hears the heart beat ,having the feeling of suffocation, his aggressive tone starts to increase. The video did a great adaptation of Poe’s story. The animator used poe’s descriptive writing as an outlet to see what color/shades should be used in the background. The narrator speaking as if he was reading the story played a major role which built a relationship between the animation and the words themselves. The animation was suspenseful, and erie. The animation did not stray from the actual story and use the direct words to guide the pacing of the video presentation