The area i am looking at is fairy tales, in particular alice in wonderland, because the theme for our music video is going to be a gothic style alice in wonderland. one of the main things the video will have to follow is a story line, gothic fairy tales focus on the dark side of fairy tales (the polar opposite of Disney). even though they are quite dark they still focus on major themes such as love, but they also concentrate on the theme of darkness and evil. An example of this would be in red riding hood were the 'big bad wolf' is actually a werewolf or the book 'alice in wonderland, madness returns' were alice is in a mental institute and her mind is more dark and dangerous, and wonderland mimics that and all the characters are more dark etc.
Another very dominant theme in gothic fairy tales is sadness, this is emulated from the use of dark shades and colours, grim shapes and sad faces. Overall gothic fairy tales can be regarded as quite depressing but in some of them there can be moral messages embedded in the story.
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