The Story and Voiceover quotes
March 25, 2016
The story that was written for the video, contained more scenes and more quotes than were used in the end. This has to do with the amount of footage we have as well as the amount of time it would have taken to animate certain scenes, such as the card queen scene. As stated in our pitch and treatment, we have only used quotes from the actual books. Everything was either said or thought by Alice and is taken from the Gutenberg online versions of the books, which can be found here and here. the All blue highlighted sentences come from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and all yellow highlighted quotes come from Through the Looking-Glass.
Where Alice Went
Alice sits down on a chair, flowers grow out of her feet, over the top of the frame and she follows them up, by standing up on the chair. Everything above the original frame is wonderland (London).
tart with a blank screen with the quote “Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” after which the voiceover says “Stuff and nonsense! The idea of having a sentence first!” “I could tell you my adventures - beginning from this morning, but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” The screen has dissolved into a chair walking across the room, Alice walking barefoot after it and sits down.
An animated Alice is now visible from the waist up. The first view of london is from the middle of a bridge, looking out over the Thames. One of the clouds floating over changes shape into a rabbit, pink eyes appearing, as well as a waistcoat. Alice speaks to the rabbit: “I like them when they can talk, None of them ever talk, where I come from.” The rabbit rushes of with a gust of wind, Alice gets blown along.
Alice walks up to a glass building: “Let's pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it's turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It'll be easy enough to get through—”
Alice arrives at the park. “What can all that green stuff be? (And where have my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can’t see you?)” The red queen is walking around a bumps into Alice. “I only wanted to see what the garden was like, your Majesty—” Alice lifts up her hand to touch the Red queen crown. “Where does she wear the thorns?” When one of her fingers touches the crown, the world starts spinning and ends up in the grass outside. Alice is nowhere to be found.
A caterpillar is roaming around on the ground, blowing out smoke rings. Animated Alice being blow away like smoke, only to reappear after a blue caterpillar blows smoke out of his hookah while climbing all over a london skyscraper in the background. “It might end, you know, (said Alice) in my going out altogether like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?” The caterpillar breathes out smoke again. There are now two Alice’s made of smoke “It’s no use now to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough left of me to make one respectable person!” One of the smoke Alice’s walks out frame right slowly growing larger. The smaller Alice follows. “Don't you think you'd be safer down on the ground?”
The Alice’s walk into an empty street. The real Alice walks into the smoke one and she becomes one person again. “I see nobody on the road.” The white rabbit appears: “I see somebody now!” is running along it and she follows him quickly.
She follows the rabbit into a high building. From the top, the Alice’s look down: “Look, look! There's the White Queen running across the country! She came flying out of the wood over yonder—How fast those Queens can run!” A pack of heart playing cards run after her. Alice is shocked. “But aren't you going to run and help her?” Alice jumps on the roof of the building and runs after them.
She ends up in front of a small shop, where a sheep is working behind the counter, next to the regular humans. “Oh, that'll never be done! I'd better go in at once—” She walks into the shop, only to find the sheep has turned into a pig. who runs through the back of the shop and out to an alley. Alice follows.
The wall of the alleyway is filled with playing cards, moving to form a queen, whose head gets cut off. “You shan’t be beheaded!” Alice grabs the head of the playing card queen and tries to get it to stick against the wall. It tumbles off again and the cards all spread apart. “You’re nothing but playing card!” We follow the cards falling down.
When the camera tilts up again, we see a courtyard with a table filled with tea cups, cupcakes and bowls. “Well, I'll eat it” We zoom cut to a view of a cupcake plate. One by one the cakes disappear to only leave behind empty wrappers. Alice shrinks down until she can fit into a teacup. Tea gets poured into the cup and Alice dissolves. “How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.” The tea turns into clear water, reflecting the sky.
From the sky we travel down until we see a gryphon and travel even further until we see a red wall. Alice appears on it’s back and they fly down on to the red wall. We move from the red wall to a painting of an ugly duchess. “If you're going to turn into a pig, my dear, I'll have nothing more to do with you.” Alice gets superimposed onto the image of the duchess, turns around to look at the painting. “If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.” and walks out of the frame right.
Last scene: Alice gets down from her chair (“But what happens when you come to the beginning again?” “Now I’ll manage better this time.”)
As Alice grows, her head pushes against the top of the frame, making the frame move up. We start seeing the studio again, with Alice still standing on the chair. She gets up and walks away. In the shadows behind her we see a rabbit run with her.
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