A Confusion of Princes

An adaptation from book to screen - After reading the book of A Confusion of Princes, the location that I was drawn too the most was the bamboo forests, after being told that the bamboo forest can be boring and that it might not lead to a good outcome, I took it upon myself to find a creative way to make the bamboo parts of the book to be more interesting. In the book, chapter 10 there’s a scene where khemri walks into the commodores office where half the room is filled with piles of earth/manure and the other half is filled with the bamboo leading into the darkness, that is where I came up with the idea of creating my model as it was like a journey, like you could follow khemri’s footsteps through the forest then to an ancient temple. To link the temple to the book I came up with the idea that it was a place the past kings/princes from hundreds of years ago to hold ceremonies, but over time they stopped using it and was just left abandoned. This would be based in the centre of the navel academy. I am basing my model on the part of the book where khemri meets with the arch priest by the stream, and the place where he gets baptised and becomes a full prince. For him to be baptised I am going to make an amethyst stream where he would dive into then he would appear in the temple being pushed out of the water by the technology in the water. After he has been pushed out of the water he would float to the podium at the back of the cave. There would be a greenscreen behind that to show him walking into a different area navel academy. I imagined the temple to be carved out of rock so the interior would cave like, but because it hasn’t been used in so like the architecture has crumbled and vines are growing everywhere, but as soon as he dives into the stream everything starts to work again and glows.