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Down the Rabbit Hole (Text Edit) Part II!!

FINALLY I'm posting my second text-based edit of Alice's fall into the Rabbit Hole, this time from the perspective of the Rabbit Hole itself.

I'll be honest: This one took as long as it did because I went through so many different iterations! After all, how do you personify the Rabbit Hole and give it a distinctive personality??? It was a such a challenging thought exercise that really pushed me, and I think I went through...Four different versions before this final version?

In the initial edits, I leaned pretty heavily into the stereotypical "butler" persona, but every time I went back to review the final product, it felt too much like a lecherous old man watching poor Alice float down and struggle with her dress.

I ended up deciding to make the butler more of a maid instead - specifically Mary Ann, the White Rabbit's maid that he mistakes Alice for - to eliminate the "creepy old man" vibe. I wanted Mary Ann to be almost sympathetic with Alice's predicament, exasperated and even experiencing some secondhand embarrassment, as she sees Alice's dress puffing up, and can (almost!) relate to her, but still identifies her as an "intruder" to Wonderland to be dealt with firmly!

Let me know what you guys think! I'm still figuring out other possible edits I can do with this video, and I'm always interested in ideas and thoughts about this sequence in general, so hit me up!!

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Part 2 of the Cinestory comic of Alice's fall down the Rabbit Hole! I thought it was really interesting to see how the comic interpreted her dress puffing up, especially how they went with a "Fwoomp" sound effect instead of the usual "Ka-POOF" that the fandom tends to use! They also didn't include it at the beginning of her fall, which was a little strange.

It's a pet peeve of mine, but I also dislike how most scripts and subtitles don't enunciate Alice's vocal reactions to her fall getting faster, especially in the chimney section. I mean how hard is it to write "EaraaAAAH!!" to really point out how much faster she's falling in that moment?

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Here's the first of the text-based edits I posted the poll about, and to be completely honest, this one was a really fun challenge!! I thought that Alice would be very impressed by all the things she saw floating in the Rabbit Hole as she fell, and even though she didn't vocalize her thoughts about her dress puffing up, she had to have been thinking about it at least a few times hahaha! Let me know what you guys think, and I'll start working on the second video soon!

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Just in case anybody missed it, here is officially the entire Rabbit Hole sequence with added sound effects!! It was always my plan to upload the whole sequence, including the ominous leadup to Alice slipping off the ledge and falling into the hole, when her dress first puffs up, and the very end, where she finally lands at the bottom - all sections I didn't actually get around to doing!

Tell me what you think! I still want to find ways to incorporate more vocal reactions from Alice whenever her dress puffs up. I feel like it would be an involuntary reaction from her

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"What if I should fall right through the center of the earaaAAH!?!"

The chimney section of the Rabbit Hole is by far my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE part of the whole sequence, so obviously, the different frames deserve some extra special attention!

As Alice floats towards the chimney in earlier frames, you could see her measuring out her dress with her hands, and deciding that she needed to push on her skirt to squeeze through. Obviously she didn't exactly thing things through, as we know how THAT decision ended!

You can see Alice's dress starting to lose the air trapped underneath as her hands get closer, even deflating into the "neutral" position it normally rests in. Unfortunately for Alice though...

...Her dress loses ALL the air it held underneath in a parachute shape, and starts to crumple up here. Alice doesn't initially seem to notice, until...

...About here, when her dress starts to completely fly up, and her free freefall through the chimney begins!

Here you can see the surprise, fear, (and maybe a little embarrassment!) in Alice's face, as she falls with her dress and petticoat blowing up around her and flashing her undergarments! You can especially see as she looks down, that she is definitely regretting her decision to push her dress down!

As she exits the chimney section though, Alice manages to let go of her skirt, but she still looks confused and a little afraid. She is falling at a breakneck speed, after all!

As her dress starts to puff up with air again, Alice starts to push down her apron again. Maybe this means she's regaining her composure? Or she just wants it out of her face like when she first fell into the Rabbit Hole!

Either way, now that she's not pulling a "Marilyn Moment" through the chimney section, Alice's dress puffs up like a parachute again and breaks her fall once again!

What a relief! Alice sighs pretty heavily here before she tips over! She's obviously very relieved that she's falling slowly again!

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I don't know if this is possible, but it would be interesting to see the chimney section background in its entirety (i.e. without Alice there). I'm sure there's probably a blank version of it out there somewhere.

I think this is the best I've ever been able to find, but its pretty close to a blank slate! I'm always intrigued by the void on the outside of the chimney section. Is that filled in with dirt, because the Rabbit Hole is truly underground? Is it a choice to highlight how narrow the chimney section is and why Alice has to push her dress down to fit? Lots of room to interpret there!