EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Objective
A short fantasy film that is driven by 3 characters that intertwine through the magical and reality, two worlds spinning together as one. A portal to this world lies in Ms Holloways garden, where fate brings Victoria, a young care worker who embarks on a quest to save the Fairies from the evil curse.
Goals
To create a film of magical realism and fairy tale structure, that develops themes of good and evil, life and death, love and destruction. Cinematography and visual imagery inspired by Pre-Raphaelites paintings and experimenting with visual affects in post production, we aim to bring depth to our scenes.
Solution
The characters will develop their own stories to bring out these themes, the narratives are developed through scenes detailed production design and cinematography to create atmosphere and emotion, exposing the change in mood through the film as it delves between reality and fantasy, past and present.
Victoria brings hope of life to the film, as she is the comforter of death who will lift the curse on the land, in reality she is shot with colours of light blue - uniform, and yellow, which changes to emerald green and gold as she is in the fantasy world. The fantasy world is held under the curse, so dark shadows and vivid green colours the scenes to symbolise the envy and misery over the land.
Ms Holloway, as the old woman is seen in colours of purple and silver. The first scene with Ms Holloway in the garden she has a shawl of purple and silver hair. Her younger self has a palette of purple and orange, as the energetic young witch in the woods.
The Old Artist is shot very saturated, greys black and white. His isolation has caused him to blend into his backgrounds. The development of his friendship brings in colour to his story, as the first fairy Alia is the red fairy, this is the most noticeable colour that begins to seep into the artists life, through the illustrations he hangs on his walls to little things he changes in his dress, red bow ties and handkerchiefs, a new red paintbrush. His life becomes increasingly vibrant, until the day he curses the fairies, where he is brightest in the light of the window, wearing a dark red dressing gown, in a room of shadows and blackness.
water begins to pour through the wholes of the skull. The cracks in the skull spread deeper and the
water gets stronger until it shatters into pieces and the water flows full force, the curse on the land
has been lifted. However Victoria is trapped, the only way out is where the water is pouring from, the
burst of sunlight highlights the waterfall, the beauty of the water shimmers around Victoria, now
underwater and swimming up to the top, she begins to drown. But watching down from her study,
Ms Holloway is casting her last spell. A spell of sacrifice, as she is about to pour her life into the
young Victoria to save her from the death that the curse has drowned her in. The spell completed,
Ms Holloway drops to the floor as Victoria is reached out for by the fairies. Victoria falls out and
tumbles onto the lawn of the garden. She goes back inside the house, searching for Ms. Holloway,
who she finds on the floor of the study, her hair dark as the sky and her face as young as the first
day the Artist had set eyes on her. The book laid still open on the desk, a new chapter of the book
that was illustrated with a woman dressed in a cloak of emerald green and gold, the new witch.
Objective
A short fantasy film that is driven by 3 characters that intertwine through the magical and reality, two worlds spinning together as one. A portal to this world lies in Ms Holloways garden, where fate brings Victoria, a young care worker who embarks on a quest to save the Fairies from the evil curse.
Goals
To create a film of magical realism and fairy tale structure, that develops themes of good and evil, life and death, love and destruction. Cinematography and visual imagery inspired by Pre-Raphaelites paintings and experimenting with visual affects in post production, we aim to bring depth to our scenes.
Solution
The characters will develop their own stories to bring out these themes, the narratives are developed through scenes detailed production design and cinematography to create atmosphere and emotion, exposing the change in mood through the film as it delves between reality and fantasy, past and present.
Victoria brings hope of life to the film, as she is the comforter of death who will lift the curse on the land, in reality she is shot with colours of light blue - uniform, and yellow, which changes to emerald green and gold as she is in the fantasy world. The fantasy world is held under the curse, so dark shadows and vivid green colours the scenes to symbolise the envy and misery over the land.
Ms Holloway, as the old woman is seen in colours of purple and silver. The first scene with Ms Holloway in the garden she has a shawl of purple and silver hair. Her younger self has a palette of purple and orange, as the energetic young witch in the woods.
The Old Artist is shot very saturated, greys black and white. His isolation has caused him to blend into his backgrounds. The development of his friendship brings in colour to his story, as the first fairy Alia is the red fairy, this is the most noticeable colour that begins to seep into the artists life, through the illustrations he hangs on his walls to little things he changes in his dress, red bow ties and handkerchiefs, a new red paintbrush. His life becomes increasingly vibrant, until the day he curses the fairies, where he is brightest in the light of the window, wearing a dark red dressing gown, in a room of shadows and blackness.
Project Outline
The 3 characters drive the themes as the narrative intertwines through the past and
present of both fantasy and the real world. The opening sequence is will set the magical
realism style to the film, where a beautiful witch hears the news of the curse on the fairies
land. She goes into her cabin and uses her scrying mirror to find out that it is the Old
Artist, who has cursed a sheep skull to bring misery to the fairies land. She begins a
series of spells to find the saviour for the fairy, and makes a protection pendant necklace
that will give the saviour the ability to one day, save the fairies from the evil curse.
The titles run over a short sequence where a young girl helps an injured bird back to its nest. In the nest she finds the pendant, she takes it and puts it round her neck.
The titles run over a short sequence where a young girl helps an injured bird back to its nest. In the nest she finds the pendant, she takes it and puts it round her neck.
• Ms Holloway
• Ms Holloways story begins when Victoria falls into the fairy world and we are brought into her study
where she reveals her identity, she is the witch from the wood cabin. She looks through the scrying mirror, and sees the young Victoria, naked in the undergrowth with just the pendant charm around her neck. She walks away from the mirror satisfied that she has brought the saviour to the land, but with a sorrow of what is to come. She places the Fairy Book onto the desk and opens it around 100 pages in, to a double page illustration of a woodland landscape. She closes her eyes as her hands cover the page, the illustration comes to life as we move into the world.
• A young woman is walking through the woods at dawn, where she sees a man with easel and canvas set up across the way, painting the scene ahead of her. The two instantly fall in love, but the woman's secret powers restrain her, she had control of life, she was ageless, she did not grow old but remained full of energy and power. The witch had a lot of responsibility in nature to be the restorer of those injured and battled lives that are not ready to go. The witch carried each element in her spirit. She was not meant to fall in love, but here before her, a man who she most dearly cared for. He said this was magic, never had he felt such a feeling. She said that she never knew she could have such a feeling. The two were so lost in each other they would spend days and nights together. The witch forgot about her priorities, the man had forgot where he had come from, although eventually it was time for him to go home, but before he could leave her, he proposed to the witch. She rejected him, as she could not leave the forest, and she told the artist that she could not age, she was born as the protector of nature. The artist was upset, and in a rage he shook the trees and raised the leaves in a whirlwind around the witch and left her. She did not see him again.
• Old Artist
the Old Artist who curses the fairies brings evil to the land, however it is out of the love and destruction that he experienced in his past with a beautiful ageless witch, Ms Holloway, who refused his marriage proposal, which led to his isolation and exclusion from the world. Many years of solitude passed in his dark house at the bottom of the street. He lived a lonesome life, until he met Alia, a fairy who lives in his garden, she gave him the affection he had been so long without, soon their friendship grew, and he met the rest of the fairies that lived in his garden. They became his family, his whole live would resolve around them, but it was always his love for Alia that was strongest. One cold winters day, the Old Artist came down the steps to his fairies, easel, sketchbooks under his arm and a box of pencils and
• Ms Holloways story begins when Victoria falls into the fairy world and we are brought into her study
where she reveals her identity, she is the witch from the wood cabin. She looks through the scrying mirror, and sees the young Victoria, naked in the undergrowth with just the pendant charm around her neck. She walks away from the mirror satisfied that she has brought the saviour to the land, but with a sorrow of what is to come. She places the Fairy Book onto the desk and opens it around 100 pages in, to a double page illustration of a woodland landscape. She closes her eyes as her hands cover the page, the illustration comes to life as we move into the world.
• A young woman is walking through the woods at dawn, where she sees a man with easel and canvas set up across the way, painting the scene ahead of her. The two instantly fall in love, but the woman's secret powers restrain her, she had control of life, she was ageless, she did not grow old but remained full of energy and power. The witch had a lot of responsibility in nature to be the restorer of those injured and battled lives that are not ready to go. The witch carried each element in her spirit. She was not meant to fall in love, but here before her, a man who she most dearly cared for. He said this was magic, never had he felt such a feeling. She said that she never knew she could have such a feeling. The two were so lost in each other they would spend days and nights together. The witch forgot about her priorities, the man had forgot where he had come from, although eventually it was time for him to go home, but before he could leave her, he proposed to the witch. She rejected him, as she could not leave the forest, and she told the artist that she could not age, she was born as the protector of nature. The artist was upset, and in a rage he shook the trees and raised the leaves in a whirlwind around the witch and left her. She did not see him again.
• Old Artist
the Old Artist who curses the fairies brings evil to the land, however it is out of the love and destruction that he experienced in his past with a beautiful ageless witch, Ms Holloway, who refused his marriage proposal, which led to his isolation and exclusion from the world. Many years of solitude passed in his dark house at the bottom of the street. He lived a lonesome life, until he met Alia, a fairy who lives in his garden, she gave him the affection he had been so long without, soon their friendship grew, and he met the rest of the fairies that lived in his garden. They became his family, his whole live would resolve around them, but it was always his love for Alia that was strongest. One cold winters day, the Old Artist came down the steps to his fairies, easel, sketchbooks under his arm and a box of pencils and
watercolours in his other hand, he looked old and frail as he began the descent, but he did not see the
ice that had covered the steps. He slipped, his pencils flying everywhere and pages of the sketchbook
flew across the garden. A choir of laughter sung across the garden, the fairies we're falling apart with
laughter at their friend. They did not consider his pain, only the amusement of what they had seen. But
the Old Artist never forgot it, he struggled back to the house without a single look back. Alia flew to
comfort him, but he batted her away from him, entered the house and never again did he step into the
garden. He soon became bitter and ill, his loneliness had brought self pity and despair, again. On his
last day, the Old Artist stood at the window in the attic of his house, his small studio space, and looked
down to the garden. He picked up a sheep skull that he had on his desk, and his last moments of
darkness and misery he poured into the skull, cursing the fairies land to live in his misery. He cursed the
beautiful witch who tore his heart to become as old as he, if not in age then in her looks. He breathed
the final words of his curse, for if this curse was to be lifted, the one who defeats must die, as it was the
fairies that caused his death. With all of the strength he had left in him, threw the skull out of the
window and to the garden below. He laid down in the darkness of his studio and drew his last breath.
• Victoria
• Victoria has always felt a strong feeling of compassion and calm to others. She came to Ms
Holloway to help her move comfortably into the home, but when she saw the novel in the study, she was urged to take it into the garden to read. The first page read a poem, as Victoria whispered the words the winds swirled the leaves of the bush around her. A symbol on the page matches the charm around her neck, she holds on to her necklace and turns the page, instantly attracted to the book she becomes heavily transfixed with the novel. The bush begins to twist and twine around her, the branches coming loose and reaching out for her. Victoria is oblivious and carries on, turning each page eagerly. The bush has now wrapped itself around her and in one heave, Victoria falls backwards, as the book flies forwards. She falls down into the undergrowth, shrinking in size as she falls, when she lands she is lost, naked and alone. In the darkness she searches for something to cover herself. A little fairy flies out from the undergrowth, giggling at the naked girl, she takes Victoria to the toadstool, the portal to the fairy world. The little glowing fairy goes first into the toadstool, a bright flash of light bursts out, as a little figure silhouettes beckoning Victoria in. She welcomes Victoria to their home and gives her clothes to wear. They have transported to a woodland, where a beautiful little fort is decorated with the belongings of this little green fairy. Her name is Eva and she tells Victoria that she was destined to save the fairies from the evil sheep skull. Together they journey through the woodland to the waterfall where Victoria will enter the skulls labyrinth, but first Victoria must earn Alias', the red fairy's trust. Eventually, Alia gives Victoria her glow as a lantern to help in her quest. When in the labyrinth Victoria battles the evil spirits that come out at her; the further she gets into the labyrinth, the closer she is to defeating the skull. As she manages to grow stronger the curse gets weaker. Finally Victoria enters the cave where the skull lies, trapped between the rocks and blocking part of the waterfall. She calls out to the skull, the poem that was on the first page of the book, and as she brings the charm to her lips, her breath smokes over the pendent, just as
• Victoria
• Victoria has always felt a strong feeling of compassion and calm to others. She came to Ms
Holloway to help her move comfortably into the home, but when she saw the novel in the study, she was urged to take it into the garden to read. The first page read a poem, as Victoria whispered the words the winds swirled the leaves of the bush around her. A symbol on the page matches the charm around her neck, she holds on to her necklace and turns the page, instantly attracted to the book she becomes heavily transfixed with the novel. The bush begins to twist and twine around her, the branches coming loose and reaching out for her. Victoria is oblivious and carries on, turning each page eagerly. The bush has now wrapped itself around her and in one heave, Victoria falls backwards, as the book flies forwards. She falls down into the undergrowth, shrinking in size as she falls, when she lands she is lost, naked and alone. In the darkness she searches for something to cover herself. A little fairy flies out from the undergrowth, giggling at the naked girl, she takes Victoria to the toadstool, the portal to the fairy world. The little glowing fairy goes first into the toadstool, a bright flash of light bursts out, as a little figure silhouettes beckoning Victoria in. She welcomes Victoria to their home and gives her clothes to wear. They have transported to a woodland, where a beautiful little fort is decorated with the belongings of this little green fairy. Her name is Eva and she tells Victoria that she was destined to save the fairies from the evil sheep skull. Together they journey through the woodland to the waterfall where Victoria will enter the skulls labyrinth, but first Victoria must earn Alias', the red fairy's trust. Eventually, Alia gives Victoria her glow as a lantern to help in her quest. When in the labyrinth Victoria battles the evil spirits that come out at her; the further she gets into the labyrinth, the closer she is to defeating the skull. As she manages to grow stronger the curse gets weaker. Finally Victoria enters the cave where the skull lies, trapped between the rocks and blocking part of the waterfall. She calls out to the skull, the poem that was on the first page of the book, and as she brings the charm to her lips, her breath smokes over the pendent, just as
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