Development: Filming

Below are some pictures from when we were filming.

Here, Charlotte is filming whilst I direct and make suggestions for how Madeline (Alice) should be filmed when running.

Here is me filming the shot where Alice meets the clown and there is a pan up the body. I therefore had to get in the position Alice was in to do her point of view.

Here is me and Charlotte looking at some of the shots and seeing whether any needed re-doing or not.

Development: Soundtrack

Eleanor Mitchell composed the music for our short film, she is 17 and does grade 7 piano, she is a friend so this worked well as it allowed the music to be recorded outside of college. Below is a short video, illustrating the techniques used in order to efficiently compose an accurate soundtrack. Our video was edited completely and finished before the music was composed in order to allow Eleanor to compose the music that would fit in with the video otherwise there would've the potential to have mis-matched timing. Eleanor has an electric piano so we therefore placed the recording device we borrowed from college directly below the speaker underneath the piano in order to get the best sound.

The Narrative of our Film: ALICE

ALICE.

If our film was to be made in full then it would not continue in this surreal way. Furthermore it would change from black and white, into colour; similar to what happens in "The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy wakes up in Munchkin Land. Our film will change after this section because the film is about Alice Guy and this first section is just an artistic way of illustrating her childhood. We decided on this because a full length surrealist film would not only be very heavy going for the audience but doing this would make it quite impossible to illustrate Alice Guy's life story. The changing of black and white to colour will illustrate how the first section is in the past and now the film will focus on a more present time-although the time period would still be the 1920s as a result of Alice Guy pioneering in this decade.

The "Alice in Wonderland" theme is more of an underlying theme and means that the title "Alice" almost really has a double meaning. The film is first and foremost about Alice Guy and her life's work as a french female director, "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll simply provided inspiration.

Here is the colour chance in The Wizard of Oz:

Here is a collage of the pictures drawn by Alice in the opening sequence of our film. These characters then appear in the film, although the bride and the male mother do not in the opening 3 and a half minutes. We wanted to keep the drawings childish and bright in order to indicate how young Alice is and that she has a wild imagination. This drawing section in our opening sequence is similair to that of the opening sequence of "To Kill A Mockingbird"(1962) : http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/09/10/to-kill-a-mockingbird/ .