What I was typing earlier:Another thing I just thought of... How should the Yeerks be done? Certainly not as boring Earth Banana Slugs. I do not think that the Yeerks should look like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Animorphs_29_The_Si ckness.jpg, because they are often described in the books as looking blackish, and much more like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Animorphs_Aliens_po ster.jpg Romas Kukalis wins again!
Related to Yeerk portrayal, when we're in the head of a Controller with their Yeerk (Jake and Temrash; Cassie, Illim, and Tidwell; Eva and Edriss), most of the time, the dialoge can be voice-overs while the host looks stoic, or responds to other people as necessary. Example (made up just now):
<Yeerk says something in voice-over.>
<Host speaks back in disagreement.>
"Yeerk speaks out loud using host's body."
"Second person responds."
<Host makes snide comment.>
But if we're getting really in-depth, like with Jake and Temrash or Eva and Edriss, I envisioned an animation of the host and their Yeerk inside a stylized human mind, looking like a large empty room with a control panel and a window, and the host appearing as their natural body, and the Yeerk appearing as a featureless humanoid that is able to make hand gestures and facial expressions to convey emotion. To be even more serious, it could be just a plain all-black environment with just the two characters I described.
My reply to what you said last:Each episode (or film) should be from the perspective, but not literal point-of-view (POV shot) of the original narrator of the book. Some things described in the narration in the books should obviously be shown and not told (You know... "Show Don't Tell"!) through visual layouts. Other elements of the narration should be carefully chosen to be read out-loud by the narrator character in a voice-over, for things that give us important insight as to their thoughts or character development.
I'd love to someday, just for fun, write a screenplay/teleplay/script adapting one of the Animorphs books. That would be so fun.
Post Merged: April 18, 2011, 01:48:30 AM
A few other things I thought of:
1. The opening titles of each episode could have a recreation of the backgrounds on the book covers. For example, I'm looking at the cover of book 30 on my bed right now (Marco to ****roach,
The Reunion), and the background is sort of sunset-like, with clouds. A lot of the covers had clouds of some sort as their background.
2. At some key point in the episode, the person portraying the main character (narrator) of that episode should wear an outfit/costume identical to what the original model wore for that cover. For example, in episode 32,
The Separation (with the two Rachels),
the actress hired to play Rachel the animated Rachel model should wear that black and red "striped" swimsuit in the scene where she's about to morph at the beach. On his way out of the house on the first morning in
The Reunion, Marco would be wearing a purple shirt and dark grey pants with a black belt and white tennis shoes.
3. Every book had its inside cover illustration, and when it comes to that particular scene in the episode, the TV show should make every effort to re-create that particular illustrated scene. This includes where people stand, the position characters are in, where the camera is looking, where props are, ect.
