Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

As a huge fan of Tim Burton's work and Alice in Wonderland. I insisted we explored the new film coming out in March 2010. As Tim Burton directs Gothic themed films and Alice in Wonderland is a Fantasy story it felt fitting to look at.

We looked at the innocence of Alice and compared her to our other muses Hayley Williams and Avril Lavigne. We decided that Alice represents the innocent child which is corrupted through experience and curiousness. We considered what a 21st century Alice would look like in comparison to the picture above and then adjusted our ideas to fit our colour scheme which added to our ideas towards their outfits.

When I came across the above image it caught my eye as the colours they had used were mainly bright yet they appeared quite dull. This seemed appropriate as we were using the bright colour pink and mixing it with the dark black. Therefore, when we create our website we plan to adjust the colours to match the feel of them merged together to the backgrounds of these images. Additionally, even though Alice in Wonderland appears to be a safe story, mislead by the images above, there is a deeper level to it that suggested a more corrupt darkness which we want to reflect through our website.

We used the above image to explore Gothic architecture for our website. We liked the stone pillars and the sense of winding around them suggesting a sort of imprisonment. We decided, however to go for the more traditional tower in which we considered having Mae as a damsel in distress but this would have defeated our theme of the 'New Woman'. By having a tower but no one inside it, we could mix conventions with subversions to make an original and creative idea.

We want to illustrate a dark Gothic theme on our website and looked at the 'Jabberwocky' from Alice through the looking glass. Alice shows a dominate yet subverted female role during this chapter/scene as she is the one who must go sleigh the Jabberwocky rather than wait for a male character to be the Saviour. This supports our feminist approach to our task as we want to show our artist as the 'New Woman' who can fend for herself unlike the 'Old Woman' who takes a more passive role.

The style of writing used for the title is similar to the style we want to use for our band name 'Mia-Mae' as it illustrates an uneasy Gothic theme while still drawing in all potential audiences. The heart inside the 'a' of Wonderland reminded me of our music video as it is all about finding love from a fantasy boy the same way Alice tries to find herself in her fantasy world.