Ensaio sobre as imagens. A criação do roteiro de Blindness de Fernando Meireles, adaptado do romance: Ensaio sobre a cegueira de José Saramago para as telas de cinema

Abstract

The dissertation aims to investigate different forms of narrative structures for the development of a screenplay, adapted from a literary work. For this work, we will use as corpus the novel Blindness by José Saramago which was adapted by screenwriter Don Mckellar, giving the film directed by Fernando Meirelles in 2008. The purpose of this part is to show the narrative construction in the audiovisual, based on the novel. In this investigation, support for the audiovisual analysis will be performed with renowned experts in audiovisual scripts as Linda Hutcheon, Robert Mckee, Jean-Claude Carriére, Flávio de Campos and David Howard. The script creation possibilities will follow the theme into four divisions: narrative structure, essay about images and words to picture by addressing how language operates in the sense of the word to image and how it is the concept of authorship in this aspect of adaptation . The plot of Blindness, brings classic elements of dramatic structure and expands its size in relation to the story content in routing Don Mckellar. With this research, we hope to contribute to a better understanding in the construction and organization of a script in the adaptation process itself