Single camera research

Single Camera research

For our single camera production I looked at a lot of things that relate to Alice in Wonderland- because that it what the film is based on. I read the original book again to really understand the characters and be able to predict the sort of dialogue they would use in certain situations. I have seen both Disney Alice films (1951 & 2010) and watched them again to pick up any interesting small references I could put in my film. I have a large list of references both obvious and discrete. These include: changing seats at the 'tea party', falling through the key hole, using the word 'Curious' and even small signs on trees in the background. I also had inspiration from a song by Shinedown called 'Her name is Alice'. This song is written about the dark side of the story of Alice in Wonderland. It made me want to make my film fairly dark and very odd because that's the reality of the original story; it shouldn't be bright and cheery.

 

My main inspiration came from the cut scenes from an Alice in Wonderland video game called Alice: Madness Returns. This particular game is a sequel about returning to a wonderland being destroyed but is much more inspirational than the original game. Below are some pictures from the game's cut scenes. The characters are made to look like pop-ups and usually don't move their mouths while talking. This is how I decided that I wanted to create life-size pop-ups in my take on wonderland. My characters will be my own design of 3 well-known wonderland residences and will have voices coming from them but they will not move their mouths.

 

 

 

In my film I intend to use the Jabberwocky poem because I think it is a very powerful and amazing poem that can mean whatever you want it to. The odd and mad language used really helps set the mood of uneasiness. I intend to have a deep voice reciting this poem during my chase scene along with music because I think it will be very effective with making the scene tense.