Speak Video Viewing Guide

Speak Movie Viewing Guide

Please follow the directions for the prompt responses. This assignment is worth 25 points.

Pre-Viewing Questions : Directions: Choose ONE of the following questions to answer before watching the movie. Your response should be at least 5 sentences in length.

1. A movie director’s job is to guide the actual filming and decide how scenes should be read and filmed. Which scene of the book do you think will be the most challenging for the director of the movie? Provide specific reasons.

2. A producer is the person who picks a story, arranges for finances, sets the budget, recruits a director, and supervises the total production of the film. Will the producer need a large budget for costumes and special effects for this story to be effectively told on film? Why or why not?

3. Whom would you select to play the major roles such as Melinda, Andy, and Mr. Freeman in a movie version of Speak? Explain your choices.

After-Viewing Questions : Directions: Choose FOUR of the following questions to answer before watching the movie. Your responses should be at least 5 sentences in length.

1. What details help establish the time and place?

2. Did you prefer imagining the scenes as you read the book or viewing the settings in the film? Why?

3. Were the characters in the film more believable and real for you than the characters in the book? Why or why not? 4. What qualities did the protagonist, Melinda, possess? In which scenes were these qualities most evident?

5. How did you react to the antagonist(s)? What aspects of the movie caused you to react that way?

6. What character differed most dramatically from the way you imagined him or her in the book? Why do you think that character was changed in the movie version? Do you like or dislike the change? Explain.

7. Which events did the movie alter or omit (keep out)? Why might these changes have been made?

8. Which events were the more effective in the movie version of the story than the printed version? Explain.

9. What messages or themes did you infer from the movie version? Do you think those are the messages the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, intended? Explain.