Alice In Wonderland Notes

Mise En Scene

Cinematography

Characterisation

Narrative

• Opening scene: dark evening
• [setting the scene] outside shot of a bright yellow window with a man walking back and forth, muffle dialogue
• Cinematography: rule of thirds used quite a lot
• Colours are very brown, off-white
• Steady cam shot, moving back as the character walks toward the camera
• Yellow lighting
• Adults: darker clothing
• Alice: white dress, blonde hair, fair skin but dark eyes
• Very minimum lighting
• Little girl; intelligent, describes her dream about a fantasy world
• Blonde little girl
• Flash forward 13 years
• Colours, predominantly black but other colours are 'bright'
• Warm lights when with father
• Cold lighting when with mother
• Main girl; white pale skin, blonde hair, dark eyes
• Normal world: bright and colourful
• Everyone is wearing shades of white and cream, but everything still has either a cold or hot undertone depending on the characterisation/mood

• Hamish dude: unattractive, rude, has a snobby look on his face, automatically don't like him
• It's clear that Alice doesn't fit in as she doesn't want to conform to society's expectations
• Violin music playing throughout the whole scene
• Roses: white/red possibly a symbol as Hamish's mother is upset that the roses are white and she wants them red.
• She sees glimpses of her dream in the real world: rabbit in a waist coat, blue caterpillar
• Point-Of-View Shots as Hamish proposes to Alice
• These sisters could be the real life version of twiddle dee and twiddle dum?!?!?!

• And Hamish has red hair so he could be the mad hatter?? Or else it cold represent her father
• Red Queen = potential step mother
• Idk I'm just making these up
• Unstable camera movements as it follows Alice's through the bushes as she runs to catch the rabbit
• Point-Of View shots as she runs through the bushes
• Normal world: cool undertone - blue/white lighting
• Entrance to wonderland: warm undertones - orange lighting
• Gravity confusion, this is where everything starts messing with your head
• Room is quite dark lit by very carefully placed orange/yellowy lights in the corners AND the candles
• High and low angles, zooming in and out to create the effect that she is growing/shrinking
• Voices having an argument about her not being the 'right alice' because she doesn't remember this from the first time
• Flowers are snobby just like the average person in the 'real world'
• Colourful with a cool undertone
• Twiddle dee and twiddle dum bicker and exchange thoughts to each other just like the sisters

• Absolum- wise, blue, CATERPILLAR: yet to become it's true self by turning into a butterfly
• Now that I'm analysing this I am realising that there are SO MANY MOTIFS AND METAPHORS WOW THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
• It's so clear who the bad guy is when we see it: Dude with he heart eye. His hair and costume is dark, he has a scar, everyone associated with him (red cards) are all coloured black and red - very evil colours when put together as opposed to the rest of the characters
• RED QUEEN: Castle is dirty white/grey and red, dull
• I don't know if it has anything to do with Tim Burton's style but the Red Queen has a sculptured bush at the front in the shape of her head, and this really reminded me of Edward Scissorhands.... recurring theme????
• RED QUEEN: Huge over exaggerated head
• She pronounces her words like a baby - eg. drink = dwink
• The bad guys black heart changes to a red heart when he's around the Red Queen - disloyal, two faced
• Bandersnatch (huge dog)
• The woods are dark and creepy and foggy
• The shape of the moon turns into he smile of the cat
• Tea party table is very messy 
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