Wednesday 20 January 2016

Initial Planning - Makeup

Our film opening will include a series of flashbacks, either expressing happy memories of more dark moments. These flashbacks will alternate with a single continuos shot moving anti-clockwise around the two main protagonists sat on a bench. 

Happy Flashbacks / Memories
The two main characters in these scenes will be wearing healthy and simple makeup. The aim for the appearance of these girls is to make them look innocent and ordinary, so excessive makeup will not be necessary.  I will use products that will enhance the features of the girls, such as blush, mascara and foundation, in the aim of making them look as healthy as possible. Also we will use products such as eyeliner and eyeshadow to make the eyes of the first character more prominent as later in the sequence her eyes will appear dead and drawn, so by purposely creating this juxtaposition, the characters descent into insanity and depression will be more apparent to the audience. 

Dark Flashbacks 
For these scenes one of the girls will gradually be deteriorating in health, (character 1). In the final flashbacks I will be using purple and red toned colours in order to create dark under eye shadows and dead looking skin. I will also add dark grey-toned brown shades to contour beneath her cheekbones in order to make her overall face look drawn and void. I will do all of this in the aim of making the character look sad and cold to emphasise the emotional trauma and deterioration that she is experiencing.  

Final shot
The final shot will be of Character 1 sat alone on the bench. In this scene she will have to look extremely sad and desperate in order to create sympathy within the audience. This will also make the viewer question her mental state and wonder whether her friend died, or if she was ever real, as she now sits on the bench alone. However she will also look slightly unnerving, so that tension is created within the audience thus making sure that our production will fit within the genre of a psychological thriller. For this scene I will replicate the makeup that I have used in the flashback however it will be more exaggerated so that an element of fear can be introduced. 

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