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CONCEPT
Nina has competition a new dancer, Lily. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly, but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.
As Nina getting hallucinating as she gets into the character. The finds black swan character seducing, looking Lilly pass by.
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For the character of swan queen, her competition is new bold and confident dancer lilly.
It is interesting to see that she is fighting with herself as she is not able to distinguish between real and imagination.
She is changing from white swan to black swan. Her mental state descends further into madness , she is inches closer to perfection
The inner self of Nina has taken over by the evil side. Struggling between two character, she ends by stabbing in a glass piece.
Starting with the dream sequence abstraction and conceptual model clubbed together, shows how Nina is pure and fluidic. Her dreams are giving her hopes that breaks out in sudden. The triangle indicates Nina’s dream.
The scene is where Nina and Lilly pass by, where Nina sees her reflection in her. The competitive nature starts coming in, as Lilly gracefully depicts both white and black swan.
When Nina starts getting jealous of lilly and that makes her restless. That is why the triangles move apart showing the restlessness of Nina seeing lily.
Nina starts getting more restless. As she starts getting away from reality she starts getting more competitive and trying to get black features into her.
Stabbing herself and losing by, fighting good self against evil self. Ending it with a glory of dark side into her.
The structure of Nina exist no more so the triangle is no more just left with the mirror which signifies her broken soul that has reached to perfection by giving away herself.