So here goes the basic structure of my scene and things the way I thought them. For me, the scene should be working as a little story, so it’s all about storytelling. A scene that tells something. The good thing is that ‘Alice in Wonderland’ it’s well known by all the people and I can assume that if I omit some stuff, or just I show specific stuff, the general knowledge would do the rest. Besides, this help me getting rid of some work and focus on specific things.
With this idea in mind I decided to change the point of view and show the scene from the Queen’s side. She’ll not be at home, actually, but I’ll show the way she lives and through the space try to catch how eccentric the Queen is. I thought that I’ve to update some years the general aesthetic around Wonderland. This is because in the supplied footage given there’re two woman dress like doing some gym, and would be just weird to have a middle age (¿?) renaiccanse (¿?) aesthetic. So I start wondering how the Queen should look if she would be living this days, and I thought in this granny, always inside home, with the house FULL of staff, pictures everywhere, little boxes near to the table where the phone is, this little crochet tableclothes in any place, flower vases, and that kind of stuff.
That’s how it’s going to be shown in image, just by the POV of the Queen’s nowadays castle! This is a storyboard of the general structure that it’s going to have.
First of all we’re going to see the house hall fully stuffed. Pictures everywhere, vases with flowers, carpets, etc. I thought about doing the pictures actual cards, like 8 of hearts, for example, as if he was one of her sons; the big picture might be the King but drawn as if Bacon done it, didn’t decided yet, anyway. There’s going to be a general shot and some closeups to the pictures, but we end aiming the camera to the top of the stairs.
Next, the corridor where the stairs end -again fully stuffed-, and in the very far side, probably some wide lens (18-24mm), an almost closed door by which the sunlight is filtering. Then a shadow or a glimpse of light, or whatever comes out from the door while the camera close up to it.
Then we’ll see the interior of that room, which is spheric, fully stuffed again; we’re going to see a table where all the jewlery is not just the crown but some other stuff. In one side it’s going to be the mirror and coming out of it the character. Then a cut to a closeup to the table where the crown is and a 3D arm taking it (not sure about this anyway).
The shot it’s going to stay that way, we hear some steps through the floor a very bright glimpse of light and then, after a while, the same arm putting the crown in the very same table. Back to a general shot but now the space it’s going to change to a much modern looking. Flat colors, walls painted in different tones, and perhaps (yet to be decided as well) a cradle with the name ‘Alice’ and a copy of “Alice in Wonderland” in the floor.
That’s the general idea, now I have to put it in images!
