The End Product

Final look and Evaluation - Quentin

Final look and Evaluation- Claudia

Practising Quentin

I had been practising my vampire bites on myself that I was going to create on my character, Quentin. So my model kindly came into the studios so I could practice on his skin and take practice shots to see what poses I was going to go for and what worked, what didn't and what I could improve on for the actual shoot...

Here is a step by step guide to one of the bites that I did:

Step 1-

Apply FX wax using a spatular to create teeth marks and to eventually build up.

Step 2-

When happy with the depth of the wound, apply red, purple and brow eyeshadow to create bruising.

Step 3-

Apply blood

End product-

Arm

Back

I thought that the bruising looked too big and fake but that was because I didn't blend the wax into the skin as much as I should of. So I went home to practise... 

Practising Claudia

Step by step guide and practise - Claudia

Step 1-

Prep and prime the face

Step 2-

Using some celotape, gentally apply to the bottom of the lash in a diagonal way to create a line for the eyeshadow and eye liner but leaving a small gap for eyeshadow to go underneath the eye. Apply black eyeshadow to create depth to the eye.

Step 3

Apply a brown MAC shadow to the eye to start an ombré effect on the eye.

Step 4-

Apply gold to the remaining area (the corner of the eye) and also blend with the other colours.

Step 4- 

Apply eyeliner

In my final shoot for Claudia, I will be adding black contact lenses and lashes...

Step 5- 

Apply the base

Step 6-

Fill in the brows

Step 7-

Apply contour, to cheeks, nose and forhead to create depth in the face and to perceive as an evil look.

Step 8-

Apply the 'vampire look'... all I did to do this was get a small brush and draw in wiggly zig zagged lines in a purple tone and to define the lines use black eyeshadow...

Vampire Bites Research and Development

I started researching into vampire bites because that's what i wanted to put into my Quentin design and to learn the best way to do them, including products and techniques. I had a browse at some YouTube videos and looked at halloween make-up bites as well as the ones on vampire diaries. I decided to go for two different kinds of bites... the bullet hole ones and the full teeth mark bites.

The First Video

Vampire Bites - No FX needed!

This girl had figured out a cool way to create the vampire bite look on the neck with simply using cotton wool. I tried this method out and sadly it didn't work for me and I didn't take any pictures because i was not happy with how it planned out.

Developing Ideas - looks and face charts for Quentin

Developing Ideas - Creating looks and face charts for Claudia

Dark Eyes and Lips - Adapting to Claudia

Quentin - Character Analysis

My character;Quentin,  is over powered by Claudia. He is her imaginary boyfriend so she makes him love her and makes him do anything as she pleases, but his true feelings is that he loves someone else but he can not get away from Claudia as she has control over him and compells him to make him love her and as she is a vampire, she feeds on him because she gets hungry and he is the only person around. Claudia has a next door neighbour called Mrs Laderman and she is a witch, so to see Quentin, she drinks special herbs and to her, he is a real human being. Claudia, erases his memory, he is just a toy to her and she can do whatever she wants because its all in her imagination. 

Quentin doesn’t want to be this way but he has no choice but to do as she says, he can’t get away from her. He has bites all over his body from where she has bit him but looks rather normal and handsome. His character is a timid good looking boy, but as the herbs wear off, he becomes powerful and tries to get out of Claudia's life, but she's more powerful than him... Everyday of his life he tries to get away from her but everyday also forgets and lives the same day over and over again trying to seek his true love...

Claudia - Character Analysis

My character;Claudia, is in her own little dream world, thinking that she is a vampire and dresses up exactly how the ‘vampire diaries’ vampire feeds look because she’s obsessed with the TV programme and is so fascinated with it that she thinks that it is real and in her mind set, she is like them and that it is a real thing that happens. 

She is overpowered by the powers that a vampire has and thinks that she has them too and plays with Quentin’s mind (her imaginary boyfriend) to do whatever she wants and forces him to love her. As she feeds, she bites Quentin but then erases his memory every time so he thinks that she is an angel but also has a spell on him so that he will only love her but the spells only lasts a certain amount of time and every time he comes out he tries to find his actual true love, and Claudia knows this, so she casts the spell over and over again so he won’t leave her. But she thinks that this is a normal life so she is happy how she is and lives a ‘normal to her’ life.

Her personality is lead by the characters of vampire Diaries and whatever she has watched is how she would feel, she loves to live in a fantasy world because she doesn't really know what a 'normal' life is because she's a prisoner trapped in her own home. Claudia is just a girl that wants to be loved and not by anyone, but by Quentin but she has an imagination that betrays her and her character of Quentin is to pursue another love, but she wants him. Being a vampire gives you the powers of the world and she can do whatever she wants so Quentin is exactly what she wants.

I would imagine her make-up to be dark and mysterious but her facial features are also loving and a person that you couldn't leave from all of the devious things that she is capable of, she is a pretty scary character...

The Vampire Diaries - Power Point

The Vampire Diaries - Power Point

This was the beginning idea process that I went through after watching the first series of Vampire diaries, since then I have watched 5 series and have got a better view and design process in my mind to develop my ideas. 

This is not my final mood board, I just put it together as a draft to get a clear idea of what I wanted to do and how I wanted to present my ideas but I am making a more professional mood board.

Same with my Quentin mood board too.

I have found my models and am now in my design process to develop my ideas that I have right now and time to collect all of the materials that I need for my looks so that I can practice them and also develop them if needs be.

Great Expectation - Evaluation

The Gothic Horror brief has been a living nightmare to me, I hate everything about Horror and does not interest me one bit. However, I have quite enjoyed over coming my fears and trying my best to grin and bare the tasks that have been given. It has not been easy but I have tried my best to work hard and create designs and looks that I have been set out to do. There has been interesting things that I have learnt on the journey and some interesting historical facts. My design process was very interesting but I didn't fully understand the brief so I have panicked my way through the brief, I didn't enjoy The Great Expectations and found it quite strange but the work that I produced turned to be positive and it went quite well as I began to design and create my looks for the timed assessments.

Art of Gothic

The Art of Gothic episodes I found surprisingly interesting as I progressed in to the series, I am not going to lie, I thought that I would absolutely hate watching it and I thought that it would really scare and freak me out, some parts I skipped because I didn't find interesting or a bit scary but the parts that I did sit down and watched I found so interesting and history actually does interest me and I did not think that it would which was good and I enjoyed it. The parts that I found most interesting was the architecture, I love looking at buildings to get inspiration and hearing all of the history of the buildings and why they are like they are and the inspiration that people got to build them was very interesting and the all sort of buildings were. As I was watching, I was thinking of all the make-up looks that I could create from the Victorian buildings as I love weird and wacky make-up. I am very interested in the mourning that Queen Victoria went through with Prince Albert and am extremely inspired by the love that was there. It made me think if that's why people most these days wear a lot of black, it is such a good colour but also reflects death so it's more contemporary horror in decade that we are in. It was interesting to see al of the different gothic topics that he went through and how much 'gothic' is in our lives, I did not realise at all! I am very glad I watched it and learnt a fair few interesting things that could inspire me.

Estella

In class we were discovering Estella the character from Great Expectations. And we figured that she had lots of different sides to her that could be expressed through make-up with the choice of shape and colour to the face. I was working in a group of 3 with lily and miheala. When it was my turn to experiment, miheala was the model and lily and I both had half a face each. We had mapped out some spider diagrams of our ideas and planned the makeup that we wanted to create. 

This was my side of the face and the personality that interested me was the cold hearted mean side of Estella and I wanted to create a dark looking side to her. I decided that I wanted dark eyes and blue lips to show the deep dark coldness of her heart. 

Lily's Development Of Estella

Personality ideas

As I progressed with my design for Estella, I was mainly focusing on which personality that would contribute to my design and make it the best one. I decided to experiment with colour and different attitudes to Estella and this was my favourite one...

I chose these types of colours because I had to adapt to my model and she had dark skin and a pale face and pink colours wouldn't of suited her face and wouldn't of made her look like Estella. I had a lot of thinking and debating to do about my design because there was a lot of concepts that I had to think about. I went for the gold tear design because even though Estella seems to be a mean character, you can see the love she has for pip in her eyes and because she is not allowed to show her affection it is to be believed that she is crying on the inside and that's what I wanted to pursuit with my design. 

Miss Havisham Continuity

Continuity

Make-up and Hair continuity for TV and film is crucial. It does not matter how good you are at your make-up skill, if the continuity is not correct then the viewers attention will be distracted from the story. It is highly important if you are working on a TV series and in different scenes for example: someone is bruised, that you get the exact same spot every time that you create the look and design looks carefully and precisely so the look can be created more than once perfectly the same with everything precise.


Make-up and Hair Design- 

I intended my design to be of the more older age Miss Havisham showing all the wrinkles to make my model look a lot older as she is only 19. I wanted to make the lips chapped so I made them look sore and red.

I know that my hair design is not the best of my ability but I wanted to focus more on the make-up to develop my skills on old age make-up. Even though the Miss Havisham from the film doesn't look like she has much done to hair so I just back combed it and made it white. I probably could of expanded on my design but I was running out of time to get my design together. If I could do it again I would of developed my ideas.






Make-up and Hair Guides for Continuity Timed Assessments- 

Make-up                                                                                              Hair

Continuity 1

The day went well, the designs went exactly how I wanted it to and I think that the look I created looks exactly like my design. I really like what I did to the eyebrows to make them look old using white mascara and white eyeshadow, it was really fun creating them. I enjoyed using my model as I think she worked well with the design and had pale skin so it was easy for me to create my look on her.


Continuity 2-

Unfortunately, on the day I had forgot my vale (fabric) that covered my Miss Havishams hair so it doesn't look quite the same image but I was happy with the make-up and tried as much to image to exact poses from the first continuity timed assessment. To say it was my first continuity I am quite happy with myself but I think if I did it again I would learn from my mistakes and do it a whole lot better, although I am happy with how it turned out and am able to take my own criticism and work on it.

3 solutions of Miss Havisham and Estella

The Miss Havisham

Solution 1- 

For this impersonation I have made the skin the palest it could be and added light freckles to enhance the paleness of the skin. I have added dark circles on the eyes and a chapped sore lip. Girls like to take care of their lips and moisturise and for Miss Havisham she isn't going to be going into a relationship so doesn't really care about her appearance or face so I could imagine she'd like to pick at her chapped lips to make them sore and red.


Solution 2-

On my second design, I have developed my ideas and features, I have added a more elderly look and some shading and bags around the eyes. The lips I have just expanded a bit, I just don't know how I could create this look on a model to create dry and sore lips. I have also added a tiny bit of blush so it doesn't look too overly pale, if Miss Havisham wasn't how she were, I reckon she'd be very beautiful.


Solution 3- 

Final Design-

My final design is based on the 1st and 2nd design i did but developed and i also extended my ideas to perform a better make-up appliance. My hair design is not to the best standard it could of been but I thought that my design represented Miss Havisham in how I see her character. 

Estella

Solution 1- 

Inspiration- 

 For my first design, I decided to try something out and experiment with different versions of Great Expectations, and as I preferred the BBC series better, I decided to try this one first. I found 2 of my favourite images from the episodes, of young and mature Estella and combined the make-up together to create a look. This is a simple look with pale skin and slight rose cheeks with a pale lip and a slight shimmer on the eyes. I think this look suits Estella well but it wasn't something that I felt passionate about doing so I decided to continue designing from different inspiration to get a better outlook.




Solution 2- 

Inspiration- 

 This is my second design and for my inspiration, I looked at the make-up from Estella from the Great Expectations film. I chose my both favourite images to combine my ideas together to create a face chart. In the film, I think the Estella is more confident and has a lot more make-up than the BBC series so I wanted to show that so I added a little bit more colour to her face, but not too much, contoured the cheek in a blush colour and added more sparkle and eyeliner to the eye to create a more 'diva' look and to show that she gets her own way. I also added more colour to the lips and I think it worked better than the last design.



Solution 3- 

Inspiration- 

With my third and final design, I wanted Estella's personality to reflect on the make-up look that I designed. I was just flicking through Instagram and saw this image and thought of Estella straight away. In the film, she seems quite upset but has to hide the tears so I wanted to show them on the outside but also surround the tears with dark colours to reflect that she was still a dark and vicious character, but not by choice. I thought my design was very powerful and showed a lot of emotion so I decided to do that.