Adaptation Semiotic Data Elaboration:Micah Jones

The Walking Dead Series Vs. Video Game Series 

Main Idea of context  The Walking Dead affirms life and communicates values of community, harmony, peace, friendship, love, family, truth, beauty, and goodness	Main Idea of context  is based on the comic series of the same name. The game's events run concurrently to the comic, starting at the onset of a zombie apocalypse, where dead humans have become undead
Genre Horror fiction, suspense, drama, serial , post-apocalyptic fiction	Genre   Interactive drama, Graphic Adventure
Social history  The Walking Dead is a post-apocalyptic television series where a group of survivors fights to stay alive in a world where the dead walk. As the show progresses past the first season, it becomes apparent the more interesting storyline has nothing to do with zombies, but with the dynamics between those who are trying to stay alive. Not only stay alive, but stay alive while keeping their humanity. The survivor’s morals and ethics are continually tested in a world favoring survival of the fittest.	Social history  The game's events run concurrently to the comic, starting at the onset of a zombie apocalypse, where dead humans have become undead "walkers" that feed on the living which quickly overwhelmed most of the population. As established in the comic and show, this is a result of a virus that all living humans possess that takes over the brain
Ideology  A life or death situation in a zombie apocalypse whether people are going to get in your way or people coming to your rescue and help you build a better future for yours and theirs.	Ideology  From a criminal to a hero in the end showing compassion for the weak and strong helping those in need even if they don’t want it in the end.Realizing that it's not just about you in this universe it's about everyone willing to survive
Summary:   Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a        coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive. Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes gets shot and falls into a coma. When awoken he finds himself in a Zombie Apocalypse. Not knowing what to do he sets out to find his family, after he's done that, he gets connected to a group to become the leader. He takes charge and tries to help this group of people survive, find a place to live and get them food. This show is all about survival, the risks and the things you'll have to do to survive.	Summary: Taking place some years after The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, the game focuses on Clementine's efforts to raise young Alvin Jr (AJ), in the post-apocalyptic world, coming to join with a group of troubled teenagers surviving out of their former boarding school.