Intertextual references- Alice in Wonderland

This particular clip is the first ever film version of  Lewis Carroll's tale 'Alice in Wonderland', it was filmed in 1903 and shows a perfect example of a silent film which links to the idea for our music video as we have chosen a track which is purely instrumental with no lyrics. As in our music video the main girl will be shown in Alice's style of costume lost in a whole new world it therefore links to this silent film which would work perfectly with instrumental music in the background. The flickered effect on this film is something that would be appealing to use in our music video due to the vintage and out dated feel of it.

This is a screen shot from our music video and shows how our character is influenced by Alice in Wonderland in her costume. Also the idea of their being a burst of colour in the opening to our music video is appealing due to it being aesthetically pleasing as well as drawing the audience's attraction to the character. Furthermore, beginning in black and white and then dissolving into a vivid image references to the oldest color film which dates back to 1901/1902.

The sepia effect is also interesting and could potentially be used in our music video signifying the dream like state that our main character (Annie) will be in. As in reference to this particular video we thought it would be interesting for the young girl in our video to be asleep on a field in one of the shots with the masked creatures looming over her.

Our idea of our main character being followed and taunted by the masked creatures contrasts with this short film as instead of following the creatures like Alice she is trying to get away from them.


The Wicker Man has been somewhat influential when planning our music video, this is due to the masked creatures shown left which we decided to include in our music video. They are interesting due to the fact that they can relate to being evil which links to the fact that they come from Pandora's box and can never be escaped from by the young girl.