Special Collections

In an attempt to find some older visual representations of fairies I delved into the realm of Special Collections at MMU. They have an amazing array of children's literature so I had my pick of shelves of fairytales. They are beautiful books, carefully bound and embossed; however the illustrations were all a bit twee because they were created for children.

I want to go for something a little bit darker as the poem I chose is a cautionary tale. The fairies in Allingham's poem are not the midsummer night's dream kind.
The lettering in one of the Irish Fairy Tale books though was something I will consider using for the title sequence of the film as it was very intricate and inspired by celtic patterns, and had a lovely nostalgic, fairytale theme to it.

It also reminded me of the Book of Kells so I will research that a little more as well for some medieval pictorial references.