This is a short trailer for Mejpye's film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," for which I supplied the narration.

My narrative interpretation of the poem is rather different from various Hollywood attempts at it. I see the poem, not as horror, but as a character study of a man whose terrible grief destroys his sanity. Given his madness, and the unlikelihood of an actual bird performing the deeds attributed to it in the poem, I prefer to conclude that the raven is purely imaginary; a product of a broken mind, a dark fluttering upon the narrator's soul.

It's over 10 minutes, so the full video is not on YouTube. You can find it here:

http://www.livevideo.com/video/mejpye/FBF41FD110D04DA6925...

Text for the poem can be found here:

http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/1447-Edgar-Allan-Poe-The-Raven

Music: "Lachrymatory" by Sara Ayers and Figura, http://www.saraayers.com/ (used with permission).

This video trailer is copyrighted by Mejpye under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 US license, which is found here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. My narration for the project is separately copyrighted under the same license.

If you like the film, be sure to say something nice to Mejpye. And if you like the music, please visit Sara Ayer's web site and check her out. (less info)