Pathway: Adapting Orlando through the words of Sally Potter by Gaia Porcu

1 x A4 black photograph album; 34 vellum pages; 24 x colour prints, Mixed, Presentation book containing Sally Potter's notes on the film and colour photographs of Tilda Swinton at Hatfield House

A synopsis to sum up the key elements of the novel.

Page one of handwritten rough draft #1. Black ink on white A4 paper

"It was a process of reading, re-reading and reading again; writing, rewriting and writing again." Sally Potter worked endlessly to know the story inside out in order to get more in touch with the spirit of the novel.

A4 pages, handwritten, Paper, Pre-draft handwritten notes on key scenes

Where to begin? A draft of key scenes which outline what shape the film is going to take.

A4 pages, Paper, Typed notes on Virginia Woolf's ideas about the future for women

Getting in the mind set of the woman who created the story. "I also went back to research Woolf's sources".

1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Digital, Film Stills - Scene 48 - (Tilda Swinton) in the film

The role of Gender and its meaning. "... the change of sex, which provides the most obvious narrative structure, and is a rich and lighter way of dealing with the issues between men and women. The more I went into this area, and tried to write a character who was both male and female, the more ludicrous maleness and femaleness became and the more the notion of the essential human being - that a man and a woman both are - predominated."

1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Digital, Film Stills - Scene 4 - (Tilda Swinton) in the film

Tilda Swinton as Orlando.

1 x colour slide in transparent plastic hanging sheet, Digital, Film Stills - Scene 4 - Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp) in the film

Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I.

Close up of Orlando, face to camera, whilst resting against the trunk of the tree

Breaking the fourth wall. Establishing a "golden thread" between Orlando and audience across the camera lens.