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apart from an old wood and metal slide. hat a famished child alone and lost in the woods would be desperately searching for is to be found inside warmth, security from wild animals and food, all the food one can eat. hen it came to designing the look of the village, Osgood had a few rules, no thatched roofs, no cobbled anything, no villagers with chickens and steaming pots, none of that. As soon as all that is dismissed, other stuff comes to the fore. hat I like about fairy tales is the feeling that they are their own world. They do not care about world events or things that are happening, they are a parable. They are instructive, they are lessons about living. They are their own world, so it gives a freedom to do what one likes. The design of the architectural elements was chosen from doors and windows of the ienna Secession, which reveals a combination of modernity and symbolism. Another interesting feature of the village was when Gretel goes for a job interview. It was decided that the creepy older man who interviews her actually runs the euivalent of a pornographic empire. The room where he interviews Gretel was a perfect example of decaying splendour, just as his porn empire is beginning to turn to dirt, he is viewed as clinging to vestiges of his former glory. e used the idea of triptych mirrors to heighten both the confusion of the viewer and of Gretel, and hand-painted coloured glass panes in the window mullions, to echo the windows of the working girls in red light districts. The design of the interiors for olda's held a great challenge for everyone, as their look would reveal the living core and soul of the much-maligned witch, and how would we best push past the expected image of her that had been ingrained in past culture. The unending cycle of luring children, murdering children, eating childrenwhere does that come from uch of the action took place within the confines of olda's kitchen. I went for a split-level room with a slanted ceiling. Different levels to enhance and show the differing opinions and conflict between Gretel and olda, with a slanted ceiling to add claustrophobia. There were floor-to-ceiling windows at one end of the room, which had a modern stained-glass feel. At the C D E F