Creation of Photo Essay Conveying Ideas About Life and Death Adapted from Tuesdays with Morrie

Abstract

This creative research aims to 1) create a photo essay conveying ideas about life and death adapted from Tuesdays with Morrie 2) investigate audience attitudes towards the photo essay adapted from Tuesdays with Morrie. This research conducted by using English and Thai version of Tuesdays with Morrie, a journal documenting the creative process, a reliability test, focus group discussions, and questionnaires. The results illustrate that 1) the pre-production phase consists of an examination of life and death ideation and narrative structures of “Tuesdays with Morrie”, alongside prior adaptations 2) the production phase including the selection and synthesis of relevant chapters in order to create poems and characters, scene design, shooting and editing, forming a cohesive photo essay, and the assessment of tool reliability 3) the post-production phase consists of publication, and the evaluation of audience attitudes. Audience participants are categorized into two groups based on their familiarity with “Tuesdays with Morrie”, revealing those who have read the book tend to comprehend the messages more readily. Questionnaire responses indicate a share appreciation for visual elements, emphasizing the complementary relationship between visual and poetic components, with a generally high score of depictions related to life and death.