Alice in Wonderland "Eat Me, Drink Me" Set Re-designed in the Style of Alien

Set

This is the final piece of the re-designed Alice in Wonderland set me and Jake Lee worked on. The plan was used as our motivation to create the final piece which was all hand drawn by Jake Lee from the printed  images seen in our plan at http://davidowootomofilmstudies.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/alice-in-wonderland-set-in-style-of.html. I could not contribute to the drawing of the picture due to the fact that basically I cannot draw, but we both helped contribute to this task as I was the one to print the pictures from the plan. Looking at the final design this gave the Alice in Wonderland set a kind of horror feel to it, having a innocent young girl surrounded by aliens.

Costume

Here you can see Alice in her dress featuring an alien design on it, this was done to make the costume still look like Alice's' but add an Alien theme to it, their are also claws at the top of the dress, and an Alien at the bottom of the dress, showing the takeover of Alien's over Alice. 

This is a close-up of the Alien featured on Alice's dress with the rabbit, I had chosen to still use props from Alice including her rabbit and one glove, this puts across the innocent child character in a horror.


This is the other Alien on the lower part of Alice's dress which looks like it is attacking her, it also is a very iconic alien really in the syle of 'giger' the claws on the Alien emphasised a scary and threatening style to them.


Here you can see the mad hatter with a rabbit, accompanied by an alien as well, the use of completely different characters from films seems to bring about a Gothic theme to the re-designed set. The claws of the alien are also very unique in the way Giger designed them.

Props

The original colour of the liquid inside this bottle was changed from a clear white to a dark black, this was a choice made to add the gothic Giger style that has been featured in other parts of the set design. The change in colour of the liquid creates a dark mood and a sense of evilness, this was also done so props would not be excluded from the Giger style, and doing this by not always necessarily using an Alien to represent his unique style.
 
Lighting and Scenery

The chandlier in the middle is actually taken from Alice in Wonderland and the claws from the outside are from Alien, the middle part is the Elizabethan style floor in the eat me,drink me scene of Alice in Wonderland aswell. The white and black colour contrast works well here, giving a feel that an Alien is about to appear from the lights. Using both the chandeliers and floor from Alice in Wonderland against Alien claws really gives a contrast of good vs evil. Also the use of chandelier lights separating both sides of the Alien claws contrasts good vs evil, and how the lights separate purity from darkness. The claws are above all things in the set including the chandeliers, Alice and the floor, this brings across a message of the Aliens being superior to everything and is about to take over. The claws are drawn are done in a very Giger style too.