How Filming Technique Helped Tim Burton to Realize his Vision of Alice in Wonderland: Green Screen Filming and CGI Technique in the Film

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Film Science, grade: 2,0, Leuphana Universitat Luneburg (Institute of English Studies), course: English Linguistics and Literature: Alice in Wonderland, Alice in Movieland, language: English, abstract: This term paper focuses on the application of film making techniques in Tim Burton’s adaption of Alice in Wonderland and how they helped him to realize his vision of Alice in Wonderland. In order to introduce the techniques in the movie this paper gives background information on the director Tim Burton and an overview of the plot. The technical part starts with an introduction of film making and leads to green screen filming and how it works. To show how Burton realized his vision these techniques are explained and analysed on certain scenes of Alice in Wonderland. Finally all the impacts are concluded in the last part of this term paper.