Make up

         

 

1. Make Up 

When deciding upon the make up a number of factors had to be taken into consideration 

• The characters had to be aged to look creepy and scary ...to add effect to the footage
• The character had to look beaten up
• The character had to look unkempt and dirty with greasy hair 

To create the character appearance I used pale foundations to age the skin coupled with black/grey cream to portray sunken eyes.  Finally I added  black and purple eyeshadow to add the illusion of bruising.   In addition to facial make up I used styling gel on the hair which made the character look as if he had flat, greasy, dirty hair.

The overall effect defined the character David Donel.

Hair: When styling his hair, we wanted to make it look greasy and flat, so we used styling gel for this effect. As our murderer has a profile of a creepy person, we though this would add to the idea of being watched and the stereotype of killers you see in other movie like Stan Tucci, when he played the murderer in the lovely bones. 

When it came to deciding the make up for our Victims, I wanted something casual and everyday, so we used skin matching foundation, eyebrow pencils, eyeliner and mascara. We didn't want any red or pink coloured lips, because she isn't in a romance or a object of sexual desire, but is a teenage girl everyday, who is ordinary and thats how we really want to reach and effect the audience, as a lot of young teenage girls, will just wear basic everyday make up like Kim, which helps create this element of fear for our audience to relate with. 

Hair: Straight and down, everyday hair, nothing extreme done or hairsprayed, as if she was going on a night out, but if she was coming home from school or work. This is the style we were going for, just like Jennifer Lawrence in House at the end of the Street. 

Jen, has got the same style of hair as Kim, just down, straight and normal. This reaches our audience as she just looks ordinary. 

When we did Emily's make up, we kept it again very basic, just eyebrows and foundation, emily is already very pale, so we decided to keep her skin the same, so we used the same colour. We chose to have her eyebrows, to represent simplicity, just like Kim, her make up was basic and innocent, nothing seductive as this isn't a romance. Our intention to make our audience think about themselves and their actions and how it could effect them. The main aim to instil fear and make it look normal just like them. So thats why we decided to have a basic make up range.
Hair: down and straight, however Emily has very black hair, this is normally conforming to an idea of evil or danger considering it is such a dark colour, however her hair does look very similar to Esther from Orphan. Instead this time focusing on how Evil David Donell is by being able to kill emily when she already has a past of crime.

All our other victims have no make up or hair changes.