When considering options for the title sequence of our film, we thought of the idea of someone sketching Melies' designs of the moon with the face etc whilst the titles appear on the screen. We thought the person would be sitting at a desk by candlelight and this would hint at the mystery person being Melies himself designing his films. However as a result of our group consisting of me and one other girl-who would be doing the drawings-we thought about the idea of instead of us getting a male actor we could do that section ourselves. This sparked the idea of basing our film on a woman around Melies' time and of a similar style rather than on Melies. We liked this idea as Melies' is more famous; (many homages have already been made to him for example "Hugo") and if we based ours on a woman (Alice Guy-Blaché) it would be more interesting as she was the first female director in the motion picture industry.
Her film-making career span more than twenty-five years involving her directing, producing, writing and/or overseeing more than 700 films. From 1896 to 1906, Alice Guy was Gaumont's head of production and is generally considered to be the first filmmaker to systematically develop narrative in films.
We thought of the idea of our film being about Alice Guy, beginning with her falling asleep in a cinema and it being a dream sequence of her being lost in cinema with ideas of designs and characters chasing her. It would be reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland however would be of an altogether different style. Alternatively the girl falling asleep in the cinema could be a girl watching an Alice Guy film and is having a dream containing everything she was just watching. We thought of it being quite surreal and then continued to look at surreal films.
Alice Guy-Blaché
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