Title- Alice in wonderland

Genre- Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Production companies-Walt Disney Pictures (presents)
Roth Films (as A Roth Films Production)
Team Todd (as A Team Todd Production)
Zanuck Company, The (as a Zanuck Company Production)
Tim Burton Productions (un-credited)
Distributor-Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Target audience- children and families
Director- Tim Burton
Main lead actors/actresses- Johnny Depp (mad hatter), Mia Wasikowska
(Alice), Helena Bonham Carter (red queen) and Anne Hathaway (white
queen)

Opening scene of Alice in

wonderland

The opening scene of Alice in wonderland starts off

with a flashback of Alice as a child and then jumps
forward 13 years to the present. The scene starts
with Charles kingsleigh (Alice's father) putting his
daughter Alice to bed, she tells him of her dreams
of a wonderland but tells her she is mad but that
all the best people are. The close up angles shows
the audience she has a strong relationship with her
father however many years later her father passes
away and she misses his light- hearted attitude. The
movie then jump cuts to the present where Alice is
on her way to a huge party where is she hoped to
accept a marriage proposal from Hamish (the son of
her fathers business associate). When Alice and
her mother are in the horse drawn carriage the
camera shot used was mostly mid- shot for when
they were talking. When Alice arrives at the garden
party she is distracted by a rabbit wearing a waistcoat and decides to follow it. As most of the
audience who know the story of Alice in wonderland
they may of already guessed what's coming next
however in this version the expectation of the
audience may be challenged with its slight twist
and alteration to the story.
I think the first 5 minutes of the story is very
successful considering this story was originally
targeted for children but Tim Burtons extension has
been adapted for a wider range of audience,

Cinematography
Camera angles:
Mid shot- shows the character from the waist upwards.
Full body shot- a full shot is a shot of the character
showing their whole body.
Long shot- another shot of the location but more
focused on a specific setting.
Establishing shot- used in the opening scene to give
the audience an idea of location (at the start of the first
scene of Alice's house and when showing the horse and
carriage going to the mansion for the party)
High angle-where the camera looks down on the
subject from a high angle (from Alice's view of talking to
her father )
Low angle- is a shot from a camera angle positioned
low on the vertical axis (from the fathers view of talking
to Alice)
Camera movements:
tracking- the camera is mounted on a cart which
travels along a track ( when they are in the carriage it
creates a sense of movement)
Zoom in- change in the lens focal length with gives the
illusion of the camera moving further away. ( when the
father touches his daughters face the camera slightly
zooms in showing affection.)

Transitions:
Cut- the most common
transition- an instant
change from one shot to the
next. ( when changing
scenes for example;
jumping forward to present
day)

costumes
Award winning Costume Designer Colleen Atwood
does a wonderful job with the costumes, they are
dazzling and bring the traditional Disney princess vibe
back to life. So many colours are portrayed, for
example the distinctly red dress = death for Red
Queen and the white dress = peace for White Queen.
All of the dresses featured in the movie have so much
volume and drama within them, even when Alice
shrinking into a size of a pea and magnifying into a
giant, each dress would change into something
beautiful every time it would happen. Not forgetting
Johnny Depps mad hatters costumes were
eloquently beautiful with the most astonishing detail
bringing the character to life.

Alice in wonderland 2010

costumes

This red dress is wore by Alice in the scene where Alice grows into
gigantic Alice the red queen welcomes her and tells her servants to
dress Alice with whatever would fit her, she said they could use the
curtains if needed so that's exactly what they did.
This dress is bright red with a black and greyish/silver feathered sash
draped over her shoulder. The bodice has large pink stripes that fade
into white stripes, the bottom half of the dress then flares out like a
ruffled skirt and has a extra clear mesh layer at the back with black
stripes running down vertically with white dots evenly spaced vertically
on the black stripes.
The dresses worn by the main
character Alice are decodified
by the audience to be seen as
Victorian styled which makes
them old fashioned and
enchanting. The dress Alice
wears at the beginning of the
movie to the party is blue this
gives the idea of a younger
Alice, there is embroidery at
hem pre empting that she
would be running through
fields, because she had the fall
down the rabbit hole she has a
lot of layers on underneath so
when she goes upside down
you get to see the blue and all
the fun stripes with the

costumes so I've decided to analysis characters that

feature later on in the movie such as the mad
hatter.
The Mad hatter is the heart and soul of the movie so
his costume had to reflective his character in a
creative way. Colleen Atwood said I kind of had an
idea for it early on that it was a wonderful walking
carnival as well as having remnants of his past.
There were all sorts of hat making bits that were
incorporated into his costume such as ribbons,
scissors and shreds. this character is eye-catching
and dazzling creating a sense of fun yet the
character is still mysterious. The coat he wears was
made by layering over 2 layers of sheer silk over
another piece of silk and then the fabric was burned
in different areas to give it its age. The mad hatter
has a joke tie where it changes depending on his
mood; when he is happy it rises when he is sad it
goes down. His outfit is full of random things such
as different coloured buttons and socks costume
designer Atwood describes the mad hatter as a
magpie as he just picks up things he sees and turns
them into something magical.

Alice in Wonderland 2010

Oscar winning Valli Oreilly was the head makeup artist for
makeup
this movie.

Alice
Alices look came directly from
the children next to the trash cans
in the Margaret Keane paintings, Valli Oreilly said I made Mia
extra pale and everybody keeps saying she has nothing on which
is the whole point of how I like to do makeup. Her skin looks
(white) , but it was painted- every inch of her body. the colour
white had to be the right white because they were shooting
against a green screen when she fell down the hole, if it was too
white, it would absorb too much green and she would be mintcoloured. They used Mias own hair but they had to keep curling it
all day long on set because it would relax. Every time there was a
break they would have to curl her hair to keep it the same
throughout the whole movie.

Mad Hatter

Makeup artist Patty York did Johnny Depps makeup for

is character Mad Hatter. His character suffers from
mercury poisoning so makeup artist Patty York uses
watercolour rendition and the makeup grew from there.
She used lavenders and purples on one eye and on the
other she used turquoise, light blue and dark blue with
also a little touch of green, overall she used about 6
different colours just on Depps eyes alone. York then
used white eyeliner and white eyelashes and below his
eyes a touch of red and some pink on another- theyre
not meant to match.

Makeup artistWhite
Oreillyqueen
said she took a lot of
her ideas from artist Margaret Keane, who
painted the kids with big eyes, she gave all
the characters a darkish look around their
eyes and pale skin. The white queens lips
are dark plum that was brushed on with a
very fine brush. She also based her look a
bit on Carolyn Jones in The Adams Family
television show. On Annes hair they tested
her in black hair and white, but they
wanted her to be the exact opposite of
Helena, whose look was very hard and
structured. They decided Anne's look
should be very soft and ethereal.

queen
The makeup for Red
Helena
Bonham Carter took
about two and half hours each day to transform
her into the bulbous headed Red Queen. Its
important for the makeup to be more flawless
than normal as they worked in High-Def and 3D. The directors notes for the makeup artist was
Bette Davis as queen Elizabeth, in that 1939
movie where she had red hair and her forehead
was really high and the eyebrows might even
have to be shaved off.

Setting

The setting is established through mis-enscene and camera work. There is an aerial
shot over the dark houses, which finally
focuses on a bright window of an old
fashioned house. As an audience we can see
this is set in the 19th century when we are
introduced to the first group shot of the
characters (Alices father and his business
associates). The setting is portrayed by the
old fashioned costumes, the style of rooms
and props, another give away is of course the
proper English language they are speaking in.
the setting of the huge, high-class house
suggests the characters who live there are
very well-off and successful.

Sound
Diegetic sound
The most obvious
effect of diegetic
sound has to be
the voices of the
characters; her
father and
business
associates, Alice
and her father
talking before bed
in their home.
The second
example is when
Alice's mother and
her are talking in
the horse drawn
carriage on the
way to the garden
party.

Non-diegetic sound
An example of nondiegetic sound is
when Alice is chasing
after the rabbit in the
waist coat, the
background music
gets dramatically fast
giving a sense of
determination, the
music gets slower as
characters start to
speak.
Another example is
when there is a
establishing shot of
the mansion (at the
garden part) and the
noise of the horses
trotting along

Lighting

The combination of low and high-key lighting is

used and so is the traditional three-point
lighting technique portrayed in most films. Lowkey lighting is defined by the elevated use of
deep shadows, and has a high contrast between
the brightest and darkest parts of the scene. In
the scene where Alice visits the white queen
high-key lighting is featured, bright lights are
shone over everything, with minimal shadow
and nearly everything the viewer sees is so
bright it almost seems as if a mirrored light is
shining over every surface. The three point
lighting system is featured throughout the film
so the actors dont have harsh shadows across
their faces and the actors stand out against the
background.

props
There is fantastic array of props used in this
movie to create Tim Burtons surreal and unique
version of Alice in wonderland, these included
weaponry props, furnishings and fascinating set
pieces.
At the start of the movie Alice travels to the
garden party in a carriage which can be classed
as prop.
I have included props that arent featured in the
first opening 5 minutes as there aren't as many
featured so early on in the movie.
The most famous prop in the movie would
probably be the bottle Alice drinks from marked
drink me and the cake thats marked eat me
these props were used to help her grow and
shrink. A few of the props for the character Mad
hatter consist of his hat, his chair for the tea
party and his sword. For the red queen; her
sword, daggers, spears and other weapons. All
of the plates, cutlery and food at the tea party
are also all props for the movie.

Alice in wonderland
soundtrack 2010

1. Alice's Theme"
2. "Little Alice"
3. "Proposal/Down the Hole"
4. "Doors"
5. "Drink Me"
6. "Into the Garden"
7. "Alice Reprise #1"
8. "Bandersnatched"
9. "Finding Absolem"
10. "Alice Reprise #2"
11. "The Cheshire Cat"
12. "Alice and Bayard's Journey"
13. "Alice Reprise #3"
14. "Alice Escapes"
15. "The White Queen"
16. "Only a Dream"
17. "The Dungeon"
18. "Alice Decides"
19. "Alice Reprise #4"
20. "Going to Battle"
21. "The Final Confrontation"
22. "Blood of the Jabberwocky"
23. "Alice Returns"
24. "Alice Reprise #5"