Location Shots

Our Music video has three major locations:

The main location is 'Wonderland', these scenes will be shot in Norwich's 'Plantation Gardens'.

In this scene our Protaganist wakes up after opening Pandora's Box. She is followed by strange masked men. The scene ends with the Protaganist crossing a bridge into the next scene.

The next location is a bustling city with low angle shots of tall buildigs and a much darker mise-en-scene.

The Juxtaposition between the two locations creates a depressing atmosphere which helps the audience relate to how lost the protaginist is in this new industrialised world. The final scene is 'reality', which in many ways is less realistic than the new worlds she imagines, this could relate to the idea of perfection being infected by political and economical issues of today, and that the evil in pandora's box is modern society.

This puts a spin on the 'Alice in Wonderland' tale and relates to our niche target audience that may dislike modern society and dream of their own 'Wonderland'.

Our final location is 'Reality', this location is in a garden up against a fence, our protagonist is sitting up against a red table staring into Pandora's Box. This location is an effective choice because it links to the first ever colour film and this creates an exciting intertextual reference for our audience.

The music video begins in 'reality', then when out main character opens Pandora's Box she is transported to Wonderland. After being chased by masked men she crosses a bridge into a large City where she feels trapped and alone, she then rushes back to Wonderland in order to escape her fears.

First Shoot

This is our First Shoot, this is raw footage and teaches us what we need to do in order to improve for the

next shoot. We had too many mid shots and to capture the genre perfectly we will need to use more low angles and shoot in more areas, for example Shop Fronts and more of the Industrial Architecture in order

to create binary opposites.

Intertextual References -

The first intertextual reference that stuck us when planning our Music video was the links between our imagery and the 'Tenniel illustrations for Alice in Wonderland'. From this we decided to link another intertextual reference which would be the idea of Alice becoming smaller as she enters Wonderland, perhaps having an item like the shrinking potion which creates the Gateway between Reality and Wonderland.
The dress worn by Alice in this image links to the costume worn by our own main character, this is a link between the purity and youth of both characters.

Another Intertextual reference comes from the original 1903 film of "Alice and Wonderland", The masked bunny shown at the beginning of the video relates to the creatures that haunt our main Character, the idea that this dreamland is more of a nightmare becomes clearer as the Creatures become closer and consequently more haunting.
Shown in the beginning of this
clip we see that the Masked Bunny crosses between Alice's dream world and reality, This is shown when the bunny climbs through a hole. We decided that this could be shown in our own video by having the masked creatures escape the dreamworld and capture the main character as she sleeps.

A third intertextual reference comes from Greek Mythology, Pandora's Box is the story of the first woman on earth and how she defies the Gods by opening a Box that should never be opened, inside the Box is all the evil within the world and Pandora allows these evils to escape. The link here is that in our own music video our main character opens a box only to release the masked creatures upon the world. The Box is also potentially the gateway between our main characters Reality and her Dreams.

The forth and final Intertextual reference comes from 'The Wicker Man'. The masked characters within The Wicker Man symbolise the different culture and the different norms that this culture has. This is an interesting link because the norms of the masked creatures in 'The Wicker Man' involve burning a man alive for faith, this could relate to the evil that possesses the masked creatures in our Music Video and the fact that nothing stops them once they have escaped their box.

Story and Mood Boards

Mood Board by Lyndsey Wise - Original ideas and intertextual references within our music video.

Character Costumes

 This costume will be worn at the begining of the music video by Lyndsey who will be playing the main character of the video. We related the costume to both Alice's from 'Alice in Wonderland' and Dorothy from 'The Wizard of Oz'.

We made this intertextual reference because all three characters are stolen from reality in some form.

The shoes worn to by our main character are very important features of the costume, the white and black colours link to the Black and White colour scheme used throughout "Alice in Wonderland with the Playing Cards" and the magical shoes warn by Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"

The masked creatures will be played by
Robin and Lyndsey. The masked animals were modelled around small Toys that Lyndsey's character finds and the masks worn by the cast of "The Wicker Man". This is a strong intertextual reference because the instruments used in "The Wicker Man" soundtrack are the same as those used in our own soundtrack "Antiques", as well as this the masks relate to the plot of The Wicker Man where the main character is captured far from their natural environment.