Our first thought of 'Ghazal' was quite a literal interpretation. We would use the imagery running throughout the poem to produce a short film that was almost abstract. However, we decided that shots of the forest would be too bland or boring to fuel a two-minute film. We decided to look further into the poem to find some sort of narrative that we could use.
The poem seems to be centered around a woman that has suffered some sort of emotional abuse. The lines 'An enraptured heart yearns to be found' and 'frozen tears settle on her cheeks as she kicks up the leaves' suggest that this emotional abuse seems to come from a lover. The term Ghazal is also a poetic form that invokes feelings of melancholy, love and longing so I assumed it was her boyfriend. However, the group decided on leaving this person anonymous so the audience could decide.
The poet has given 'Ghazal' an autumn forest as its scenery, however this would not work as we our creating a visual interpretation that would have to feature a location that evokes feelings of melancholy and longing. We had an idea that this forest was her dream or fantasy world she would go to to escape this abusive figure. In doing this we would create a contrast between her reality and dream world and hopefully, the two would produce a melancholy effect.
I had an idea that there would be a narrative running throughout the film. The narrator would explain her situation and sympathize with her until at the very end, he would reveal that he is this abusive figure and would not let her go. The group decided that instead, we would use either a reading of the poem or music to guide the audience through the film instead.
Now that we had our final idea it was left to Dan, our story boarder, to put it on paper.
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