Another post from the evolution of the project

Monster Mash







I am so crazy excited for our project that we just launched the proposal for. I feel like it will be great to collaborate with all of the people that are in the group to turn out an amazing project. I've been looking at remix projects of Frankenstein online and found a review for the app that Dr. Burton showed in class: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/30/frankenstein_remixed_salpart/. Laura Miller hit home when she said, "The app is a creative, subtle and sensitive adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novella, and it has singlehandedly renewed this critic’s hopes for interactive fiction."


I also found a website that lists every appearence that Frankenstein has made in today's films, commercials, cartoons, songs: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19810. It is incredible detailed question and answer sequence where I learned a ton of very interesting facts. One of the remixes of Frankenstein caught my attention in particular.







"Q: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was spurred on by a natural disaster. Dean Koontz updated the story in a series that began in 2004. What natural disaster served to stall his Frankenstein series at Book Two?


A: Hurricane Katrina. In the book, Dr. Frankenstein is a present-day New Orleans resident. Koontz had to start over on Book Three after the flood, and has apparently struggled in his attempts to incorporate the real-life tragedy into the story. The third book was initially due in 2006, and fans are hopeful that the revised publication date of this third book – sometime in 2009 – will hold true."


There is a whole fan fiction side to Frankenstein that I had no idea about. Now I am more excited to start working on the project to give a more fleshed out and true to lit form of Frankenstein that hasn't been seen in a while. Read through some of the articles I've posted and watch the monster mash up video. It will be a scream.