Essay

Question 1. Critical context/overview of academic debates and concepts relating to the topic (subheadings included).

Question 2. Application of these to specific case studies/designers whose work relates to the research you've included in chapter 1. Analise 2/3 examples making connections to chapter 1 ideas.

Question 3. Analysis of your own artefact's creative ideas/techniques/material choices/designs choices and how these have grown out of the concepts in chapter 1 and also inspired by the case studies in chapter 2 (how have you adapted, revisited, remodeled, reworked techniques and meanings?)

Subject:

• As I mentioned in my dissertation proposal, I will write about Guillermo Del Toro's movie Pan's Labyrinth. I chose this movie because I was intrigued by the story and how the writer managed to blend a fairy tale story with an actual event of Spain's war and fate. The story is about a girl who moved to a base camp with her mum because her mum had re-married and was about to give birth to her new sibling. While at the base camp, a maze appeared in front of the girl. The girl felt overwhelmed and her curiosity pulled her towards it. The maze led her to a mythical place, where after some time, she made new friends like a Faun and various other fairies. As the story moves along, the girl, who she is also representing the "here and now" in the story, has to go thru different tasks. The aim was to be led back to her kingdom by completing these tasks, but in the end, she was murdered by the Captain, who then led her to a magical realm where her father, mother and brother were. What I want to write about this movie is the writer's ability to connect and blend actual life events with fairy tale stories, so charismatically and how he came up with the editing, staging, and other effects that he used in his movie to bring it to life.

Research Plan:

Chapter 1: For the first chapter I will be talking about the difference of fantasy and reality in Pan's Labyrinth. I will be talking about the common fairy tales that Guillermo Del Toro took from Disney movies, like Cinderella, Narnia, and Alice in Wonderland. I will write about how he took inspirations from those movies, like the decoration or the creatures, and how all the characters represent different things in life like control or being a guardian. Then with the fairy tale story that Guillermo Del Toro adds in the reality of the civil war that happened with Spain and the rebellion. We will see how Vidal who is the Captain of the station that he is in, seeks to find control to everything around him from the maids to the guards and even with time, he seeks to governed with fear and fantastic insistence on rules to have a system and control.

Chapter 2: Then for the next chapter I will be writing about the staging, visual lighting, and the editing ideas and how they work. Guillermo Del Toro uses the same color skim that was used in Narnia at the end of the movie when the hero's went back to the castle to be crowed, he used the same idea for the hero in his movie when she died and went back to the castle, again he uses the same aesthetic for when the hero walked in to the tree to find the frog, it gives us the same aesthetic for Alice in Wonderland. Also, another thing I will write about is how the entire movie gives off the symbol of a woman and her power and how all the creatures represent the different meaning of wars and events that happened.

Chapter 3: I collect images of the creatures used in the movie and I will try to recreate them by sketching out some of my creature that I think would fit well in the movie. Then I will write how I came up with each creature by taking it step by step.

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