Because I'm a Nerd...

So I had this Film Experience project due yesterday where we had to create an additional scene for the movie Pan's Labyrinth. I really was not looking forward to this assignment but I think ended up really loving the scene I made! Not because I'm so terrible artistic or creative... just caz idk i combined like tons of epic movie ideas and came up with a scene that in my head is just epic. haha If your don't visualize it is probibly pretty lame... we shall see... so for your listening pleasure... her is my additional scene...

My additional scene for Pan’s Labyrinth is another task for Ophelia to accomplish. When the magic root the fan gives her to place under her mother’s bed appears to have died, the fan tells her of another magical plant that, if eaten, will cause her mother to live eternally. Of coarse by this he means in the Underworld in which Ophelia is the princess. He runs off on a tangent of how the forest was magical and contains many more ancient underwater caves and caverns that you would not expect from the shallow river running through the forest. The fan however, warns her that time is running up for her three tasks and that she must forget that he has slipped about telling her about this magical plant. He knows, as Ophelia does not, that the magical root is not dead. The audience finds this out later when it is thrown into the fire by Ophelia’s stepfather. In an effort to discourage her from going after the plant he tells her that he will offer no help to her in dealing with the creatures that live about the plant.
Ophelia does not follow the fan’s advice. She does not believe that the root is still alive and is desperate to save her mother. Although the fan offered her no help in retrieving the plant, she sets out to the river to find the magical cave he spoke of. The river itself hides the cave. One particular spot in the mud is quicksand that actually transports anyone who falls into its grasp to an underground cave filled with water. Ophelia struggles to free herself from the quicksand but cannot free herself. She takes one last big breath and finds herself being swept along an underground current. She tries to hold her breath as it carries her swiftly along the tunnel. She gets tossed and turned by the current, struggling to keep herself free from the underwater growth on the cave walls that threaten to wrap their limbs around her and drown her in the flooded cave. Just when she cannot seem to hold her breath any longer, the current rushes into a larger room within the cave that is only half filled with water. She is able to break the service and gasps for breath. A dark shadow passes under her bobbing body. It is the frightening water monster that guards this magical plant. The creature try to eat Ophelia, but the luckily the current is faster than it can manage to swim against and carries her temporarily out of its grasp, deeper into the cave. She struggles to swim towards the sides of the cave in hopes of climbing up the walls and out of the creatures grasp. As she desperately climbs out of the water and up the cave wall, the creature is gaining in on its prey. She just makes it out of the water and over to a small ledge in the nick of time.
Some distance away on another ledge is the magical plant that can save her mother. It is however a dangerous and difficult climb from her perch to the plant. One she is determined to make. All the while with the risk of falling back into the jaws of the water monster, she slowly makes her way to the plant. With some nerve-wracking slips and stumbles, she finally makes it to the plant and places it into her pocket. Now the question is: how does she escape this cave? She looks around desperately and spots a seemly closed off pool some distance away that has a lighter, more sparkling water in it. The current her is non-existent with a glassy service. She does not know if this pool is dangerous or the answer to her problem. She however has no other choice. She can either dive into the glassy pool in hopes of swimming down and out of the cave, or back up against the current and at the mercy of the monster the way she came. She dives into the glassy pool and finds herself surrounded by beautiful fairies. They seem to want her to stay with them and play. As she watches them swim and frolic like seals at play underwater, she forgets where she is, until all of a sudden her breath starts to run out. Now she realizes that these fairies are deceitful. They are making her to drown without even realizing it. As she sets off for the light coming from the end of the tunnel, they desperately try to keep her distracted tugging on her dress and swarming around her. She swims frantically as she yearns for air and finally comes up to the service. The fairies have disappeared around her and she is left treading water in a small but deep pool in the forest. She runs, dripping wet, back to the house to feed her mother the plant.
Other than the underwater cavern setting, this scene would have a particular focus on lighting. When the current through the tunnels is sweeping Ophelia, the lighting would be a blue color. The water would be clear, with an unusual saturation of color. Water mostly dilutes colors. Yet the water would appear bluish clear allowing the weeds that try to entangle her to be sharply green and turquoise. When in the main chamber of the cave, the lighting would still be blue toned. The fast moving water and waves would cast shadows and flashes of light upon the walls. The cave walls that Ophelia climbs would also be sharply colored however. With deep browns and greens of wet earth and weeds growing. The still glassy pool would be a lighter color blue than the dark rushing water in which the water monster lives. It’s light would still cast upon the walls, but in a more sparkling magical source of way while the other part of the cave is more of an ominous shadow effect. Other than this underground world, the saturation of the colors and clearness within the water gives the scene more of a fantasy feel since in reality water clouds images and colors.