Alice - An Alice in Wonderland interpretation (presentation)

commercial value!

this book based on a modern day alice could have massive commercial potential as it will be full of funny and weird stories about hallucinations, which im positive most people of my generation would find amusing to read. Like the book 'I lick my cheese and Other Notes: from the Frontline of Flatsharing' by Oonagh O'Hagan, this book comprises of a selection of interesting notes people have left for their flatmates etc. There is also a web based version of the concept, which is something that could be incorporated into my media channel, where people can leave and share stories about crazy hallcinations they have had! Because ive been having such a high number of people responding to my facebook group and other people that I hadnt invited request membership, also people seem to be really enjoying telling their stories therefore i believe this would be a very successful venture!

decisions decisions...

I have decided that i will be creating a book for one of my two media channels instead of a title sequence, as i feel i dont have the efficient skills or time to complete the task for the deadline in May. A title sequenece is perhaps something i could always come back to and develop and create in the third semester. The book however will be exciting, creative and hand-made with witty illustrations and stories. Still carrying on with the idea of telling a story about a modern day alice, the book will be titled something like Down the Rabbit Hole, and subtitled ... A Modern Day Alice, by Alice. With witty narrative and illustration the book will be a fun and intriguing tale of a modern day Alice, which draws light on the subliminal messages of the traditional Alice in Wonderland. Which identifies the fact that there is a vast amount of references to drugs and hallucinating in such a famous childrens story.

I have created a facebook group and invited about 500 people of all ages to share any hallucinations they have had, which i will be able to include in my book! I will also conduct a video diary of a selection of people explaining their stories as primary research and something i will be able to show in my presentation for this brief.

the company...

http://www.titledesignproject.com/2009/03/the-company-title-sequence-by-matt-mulder/

casino royal... james b

lots of hearts... playing cards, relate it to alice in wonderland!

catch me if you can...

title sequence - united states of tara

alice in wonderland film ...for freeee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLoXEJH3wAk&feature=channel_page

art destroyer playing cards

savas ozay... playing cards

http://www.soothbrush.com/portrayal-of-alice-in-wonderland-by-annie-leibovitz/

“Alice in Wonderland” is a photo set taken by talented artist Annie Leibovitz, for Vogue Magazine featuring Russian model Natalia Vodianova as Alice.Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Masterpiece, Leibovitz utilizes Surrealism expertly to reveal the fantastic world in which Alice lived.

"Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll dressed her as an innocent in satin in ribbons. Disney made her flexen-haired and saucer-eyed. In the pages of Vogue the land o merry unbirthdays and late-running rabbits shimmers to life again – as the world`s most influential designers dress the original little-girl-los in their own visions.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a stammering bachelor professor of mathematics at Oxford University, was a gifted amateur exponent of the fledgling art of photography and a man of profound religious beliefs and bounding imagination. Under his nom de plume, Lewis Carroll, he gave posterity two of the most enduringly enchanting children's books in the English language. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, Dodgson transposed the conventions of his genteel world into a magical universe. Instead of the dour, moralistic tales that were considered appropriate nursery fare at the time, Dodgson served up absurdist takes on Victorian England's polite tea parties, its eccentric dons, its gossipy news stories, its popular poems, songs, dances, and parlor games.

All this was calculated to entrance the grave, well-mannered, and preternaturally poised young girls that Dodgson cherished, so ambiguously to modern eyes. First among these was Alice Liddell, the middle daughter of Dodgson's dean at Christ Church; Alice is her story.

Today, the Alice fantasies, available in dozens of editions, are the most translated and quoted books after the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. Since their original publication, countless artists (from Arthur Rackham to Salvador Dalí and Ralph Steadman) and filmmakers and directors (from Walt Disney to Jonathan Miller) have risen to the considerable challenge of improving upon Dodgson's imagination and John Tenniel's brilliant woodcut illustrations. Now Vogue joins this illustrious roster, with Annie Leibovitz's photographs of a cast drawn from fashion's own often fantastical universe.

Vogue's Alice is 21-year-old Natalia Vodianova, whose heartbreaking blue-eyed beauty made her the inevitable choice to play the poignant and spirited heroine. 'Alice is my dream girl, and so is Natalia', says Grace Coddington, Vogue's creative director. 'She's a rare, rare model'. Vodianova's unique trajectory—this self-proclaimed 'poor little Russian girl' helped to support her family as a teenager, selling crates of fruit in far-flung Nizhniy Novgorod — is part of what made her ideal for the role. In 2002, Vodianova made a fairy-tale marriage to the Honorable Justin Portman, the dashing scion of a patrician English family; she gave birth to the adorable flaxen-haired Lucas; and she now has multimillion-dollar contracts with Calvin Klein and L'Oréal. Her trip has been every bit as fantastical as Alice's fall down the rabbit-hole.

Leibovitz cast the poetic Olivier Theyskens, a photographer himself, as Dodgson the cameraman. Like Leibovitz, Theyskens is a great admirer of Dodgson and his contemporaries. 'I love the timeless beauty and freshness of those girls', says Theyskens. 'They are so lovely, like little cats'. Standing next to an elaborate antique camera apparatus for his portrait, Theyskens felt transported in time. 'It took so long to take pictures back then that little children were almost sleeping', Theyskens says. 'And Annie said to Natalia, You're entering a dreamland! and she was nearly asleep, too!'.

'I loved Alice's innocence and her discovery of a world that doesn't exist', says Jean Paul Gaultier, who played the Cheshire Cat. 'It is fascinating and scary, and truly surrealistic—the sense that everything is possible, that you can open your doors and go and invent a new world'. English milliner Stephen Jones loved the books, too: 'I always thought it was terribly normal', he says. 'Wonderland was the reality, and in a way it still is!' Jones, naturally enough, played Vogue's Mad Hatter, whom he describes as his profession's 'patron saint'.

Tom Ford was similarly enthusiastic about his casting as the fastidious White Rabbit. (He told Coddington, 'That's a fabulous idea because the White Rabbit's really hot and sexy, Isn't he?') Ford wore a perfect white suit from his Saint Laurent men's collection. 'He was immaculate, with a little camellia and little white gloves', Coddington says. But he was unprepared for the scenario that Leibovitz had conceived for his character. 'The next minute Ricky' — Floyd, Leibovitz's choreographer —'picks him up, flips him upside down, and puts him on the background!' Coddington reports with a laugh. 'He was really a good sport'.

Donatella Versace made an inscrutable Gryphon, with her pal Rupert Everett as the Mock Turtle emotively declaiming the poignant 'Turtle Soup'. (Cary Grant played the role in Paramount's version; he wept through his rendition of the song.) And Jean Paul Gaultier — 'I couldn't imagine anyone else as the Cheshire Cat', Vodianova says. 'His smile is one of the most beautiful smiles in this business, with this smart little sparkle in his eyes' — also explored new heights, literally. 'As a child I tried desperately to climb trees, but I never succeeded', he says. 'Until now, at the age of 50! Cats are supposed to be very agile, but this was the contrary: a paralyzed cat!'.

The cast members each had an opportunity to realize the Alice gown of their childhood dreams. Coddington's only injunction was to create something in Alice's signature blue. The results ran the gamut from Versace's sea-foam gown with a thousand ruffles to Lagerfeld's Chanel couture 'dress of a very young girl from the 1870s, in a kind of baby color, with a twenty-first-century mood with the boots', to Marc Jacobs's waifish mini.

The designers rose to the challenge of their own costumes, as well. Christian Lacroix arrived in a suitable crumpled suit to play the distracted March Hare. John Galliano adapted an outfit from his Christian Dior couture show to play the formidable Queen of Hearts—and even made a costume for the Jack Russell terrier, Cheyenne.

A Louis XVI folly garden beloved of the Surrealists was the setting. 'It's a beautiful place', Gaultier says, 'very much a Jean Cocteau place—with its tower in a wood, it could have been a setting for La Belle et la Bête'.

'I feel very chosen', Vodianova says, 'by Vogue but also by the book, which is very precious. It's just amazing that people would give it up for a great idea—forget their own egos, give up their personalities—and become something different for a second. Alice is a very special little girl'.

alice in wonderland pop up book...

hullcinations research....

I used facebook to discover peoples weird/funny hallucination stories.