Single camera idea & Focus group

I came up with my idea after finding out that it is legal to make something based on or a version of Alice in Wonderland. I want to make my own Alice story set in modern times but with only 1 character.

Genre - Fantasy adventure

Plot - 'Alice' is an ordinary but very curious girl in a modern world. She leads a normal life but is fascinated by knowing more, imagining impossible things and being generally nosey (although she does not see it like that). The film starts with Alice living her ordinary life: getting up in the morning  , getting ready and going out. On this particular day Alice goes for a walk to enjoy her surroundings and watch other life and learn from it. - Alice has no real goals in life because an ordinary life seems too boring for her. Whilst walking in a countryside park she finds a keyhole on the ground. Curious, Alice looks into the keyhole and falls through and into a world that looks almost like her own. This world is a little more interesting though. The world is darker and strangely coloured. There are also giant colourful pop-ups just like a pop-up book. First this world is interesting to Alice and she makes her way home to see how her home is different. There she finds a few odd pop-up characters with creepy voices. (They don't move, their voices come from the pop-ups) This is when she realises that even though the real world can be boring, it's better than the madness in this world. She runs from her house and looks for a way out of this world. She can't get back out the Keyhole. After lots of running, searching and avoiding pop-ups she finds a door in the middle of a field. The pop-ups getting closer she goes through the pop-up door and finds herself back in the real world. Behind her the pop-up door falls down and it disappears.

Characters - There is only 1 real character. She is Alice but I may not use her name so that it's not exactly like Alice in Wonderland. I will cast a friend of mine to play Alice. She is a teen Alice even though the original story is about a child.

Locations - I will film in the Country park near my house and in my house.

Style - The style of my film starts as realistic. Then when in the alternate world the colours will be changed in editing to make it both dark and colourful.

Target audience - My target audience is teens and young adults because they can relate to Alice not wanting to grow up and lead a proper life.

Budget - The budget is low because I already have the materials for making the pop-up items.


Focus group.

We were split up into 3 groups of 3 or 4. In these random groups we pitched our ideas to each other and gave feedback to help them with changes. People in my focus group liked my idea and said it sounded do-able and an interesting idea. They didn't have any real advise on how to change it, they just recommended that I colourise the fantasy world - which I had already planned to do. Talking to them about my idea did give me more ideas on how to make and move the pop-ups.