Coraline notes

Opening scene:
Music: creepy, and quite. It says dreaming repeatedly. starts quite. slow music.
perspective: Other mothers P.O.V. - we see her needle hands and through her eyes.
Shots: a close shot of the doll. It was used to make the doll the main part. there was an extreme close up of the eye being sewn in.
Lighting and color: The lights were dark and timed down. The lights were green and dim and faded. This was to set a creepy mode. It feels old and abandoned, unappealing, and run down.

Setting: Pink palace real world. It starts raining and a storm starts.
Music: Happy, gentle, and old. The words were made up. Sung by children. It starts to build tension and builds drama.
Shot: high angle. It makes Coraline weak.

Coraline: Moody, Sassy, Stubborn. She wears bright clothes. Bright. Yellowjacket and boots. The colors make us focus on her.

Colors and lighting: Dull, Bland, Grey, dark, tinted. Make the "real" house feels sad, old, and crusty. It is old and depressing.

"Real" parents: dull, boring, They work a lot, Sad, don't have time for Coraline, not happy, tired.

Shots: Dutch tilt: something bads about to happen. P.O.V. of the doll's eye.


The "other" world:
Colors and lighting: Bright and colorful. Welcoming. Coraline is the same brightness as everyone
"Other" parents: Bright and nice. Coraline's attention matters.
Music: Spooky, sad, and creepy. Minor. Off.

The "Real" neighbors
Color: Gray, dark, mournful, sad color palette, foggy, washed out, dusty
Lighting: dark/gloomy - inside the house, cold light, shabby, dark.
Music: Bland, background, medium pace, upbeat, Latin style.
setting: forest, looks dead, the house is old, rustic, rundown. Basement, dated.
Characters: Bobinsky, (drunk), awkward, weirdo. Miss Spink and Forcible, they argue, opposites but like the same things, actress, Old fashioned, confident, attention seekers. Coraline doesn't like them but they are better than nothing.

The "other" neighbors:
Colours: bright, light, friendly, welcoming. Good dark, shiny, Vibrant.
Lighting: warm light - Orage/yellow. warm, spotlights are bright.
Music: loud, joyful, circus music, playful, minor, energetic
Setting: New, alive, fresh, clean, organized. Theater. grand
Characters: Bobinsky,  tall, healthy, tidy, done up, nice, kind, knows Coraline's name correctly. Miss  Spink and Forcible, Young, transformed, thin, attractive talented, acrobats, modern. Coraline likes them.

The Beldam:
Colours: Green, Dark, Colourful, Purple/pink, fades to white
Lighting: Dark, cold, unsafe, horrific.
Music: Slower, quite, menacing, creepy, spooky, other world, suspicious.
Setting: chocolate and furniture were bettles, sinister, transformed from the perfect home to a spider web, polluted.