I feel the imagery in it is relevant to this project because of the surrealism and nightmarish quality to it. The setting of a forest is of course also relevant and I am becoming more and more interested in making the forest a snowscape.
The way the advert is film interests me because it is as though you are looking through a snow globe and makes everything seem less real.
There is one scene in particular where tree roots follow the lost character which is something I would like to think about as trees will obviously play a very important role in the forest scenes and if they are designed correctly could give the eerie nightmarish quality I desire to the scene.
I also Looked at Guillermo de Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth' which tells the story of a young girl who completes tasks given to her by a mythical creature in order to escape her unfortunate reality and live in a fantasy world forever. It is relevant as it is set in 1944 close to the end of WW2 and focuses on a group of Fascists warring with guerillas who are taking refuge in the forest surrounding their camp so it has elements of the war and is of the correct period for my chosen genre.
This scene in particular relates to the Holocaust, the creature in the background kills children and eats them leaving their shoes in a pile in his home. The pile of shoes is reminiscent to the famous piles of shoes left at Auschwitz by those who died in the gas chambers
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The shoes are are something I really want to include in my design
Because of the fantasy element in the film it also ties in with the nightmare qualities I want to incorporate into my design. The colours used usually indicate the mood of the film and mostly blues tones are used to give the reality scenes a much more sinister feel than the fantasy scenes.
Reality
Fantasy
There are dfinite links between fantasy and reality for example the banquet scene to me relates directly to the feast laid in front of the child eating monster. And the monster relates to the character of the Captain.
The monster's feast
The Captain's Dinner
Monster
Captain
The feast is something I want to consider for my designs because Hansel and Gretel is essentially about starvation which is also a theme in Pan's Labyrinth because of it's war time context (rationing) I want the depict the witch as having plenty while everyone else starves. I also think this is a good reason to set the scene in a snowy landscape as this could be the reason in part for the starvation.
The similarities between the antagonists in both the fantasy and reality worlds is another aspect I'd like to consider. Perhaps the witch could resemble a nazi officer costume wise? Or maybe just the silhouette could be similar. It is something I will have to research further.
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