The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street Teleplay Essay

The teleplay of “The Monsters are due on Maple Street” is quite different from the play in several ways, one of which is sound effects. An example of this is -6:55 through -6:44 in the beginning of the teleplay you hear a screeching/roaring sound which is supposed to be the “UFO”. As a result of this sound effect we get an eerie/creepy feeling you can not get from reading the effects. To furthermore prove my point that the teleplay differs from the play; the teleplay uses scenery. Although the play gives us text to describe the scenery in the teleplay it shows us the scenery as a quiet neighbor until everything stops working and then the neighborhood becomes a mob due to all the suspense and blame throughout the show which as a result helps the viewer not have to imagine what is happening unlike the play. Equally important the teleplay is different from the play due to its uses of

An example of actors is -5:24 through -5:03 where everyone in the neighborhood is wondering why nothing is working. If actors were not used to portray the characters then there would be no story to tell. In conclusion you have seen how the use of sound effects, scenery, and actors helps differ the teleplay from play but the play also differs using stage directions,the use of personification, and onomatopoeia.

The play of “Monsters are due on Maple Street” is quite different from the play in several ways, such as the use of stage direction. An example of use of stage directions “Fade in on a shot of the night sky. The various heavenly bodies stand out in sharp, sparkling relief. The camera moves slowly across the heavens until it passes the horizon and stops on a sign that reads “Maple Street.” It is daytime.” If the stage directions were not used in play then the reader would not have known the slight details that make up the play, and it would have simply been made up of