Personal Evaluation of Technical Make-up...

I really enjoyed all of the make-up techniques I learnt throughout this project. All of the blood and gore was really interesting and fun to create as it is a bit of a challenge learning about what injuries really look like and making them appear realistic whether they are major or minor. 

I also love the fact that this project has proved that 'make-up' is really not always to make people look 'pretty' and 'glamorous' but to also make them look ugly, demented, injured, scary, creepy etc.

Not only can you create not to attractive looks with make-up but also hair. Rather than making her neat and beautiful, by making it messy, unfinished, over-sized, can also produce a scary, horrible, disgusting final image of your model.

Evaluation...

I really enjoyed this project as it was a lot different to the other assignments I have been set during the course of my first year of university. Rather than creating attractive looks with make-up, the intention was to design and produce 'horrific' appearances. When making and posting on my blog, I quite enjoyed the research side as I learnt a lot about how individuals are used to portray different characters in films. I also learnt a lot about applying make-up to create injuries. I feel my overall project went well, as my final images reflect my initial thoughts and ideas and I have explained what I am portraying well. I feel the make-up on 'The Dead Girl' images could be slightly better, and the black eye could be more intense, but that is my fault for not doing more practise. I also feel I could of created a more 'fashion' approach as that was a main aspect of the project but I really struggled to involve that in my final images and my photographs look a lot more 'horror' than 'fashion'. Overall I have really benefited from doing this project as I have discovered more make-up techniques and how to improve my approach for any other similar assignments in the future.

 

The Dead Girl...

2nd final character... In this image I wanted to have a similar angle/positioning to the first character as I wanted it to look as though this is the killers' version of his 'school portrait' of her. I also wanted it to look similar as it shows how the death completely takes over her sweet, innocent persona and although it is the same young smiley girl, she has been beaten to death for no reason making it seem like she has almost been taken over by sadness, evil and the sick reality of murder.

The School Girl...

1st final character... With this look I wanted to create an innocent young girl in a school portrait photograph, simple but effective portraying her purity, innocence, sweetness and naivety, as she has no idea what is going to happen to her.  

Pencil to Paper...

Illustrations - Rachel Hogg (Me)

Costume ideas...

'Before' Child: As it is a school photograph portrait, I need the model to look like a school child in uniform. I will put her in a shirt, a tie, and use big hair scrunchies for her hair.

'After' Child: I need the model to look as though she was in bed asleep, I will buy some typical young girls' pyjamas with childish pictures on and then stain them slightly with blood, I will also rip and blood stain a teddy bear for her to hold

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Hair Designs...

'Before' Child: As the model is meant to look like a 10-14 year old girl having a school portrait taken, I need her hair to look as though her mother has styled is especially for the occasion. Most young girls have their hair put into bunchies/pigtails as it is youthful, feminine, girly so I will style my models hair like this with big scrunchies to make it iconic to youthful girls. I will also pull sections of hair out as kids always mess around and play with their hair so it would have slightly fallen out by the time the girl has her picture taken.

'After' Child: As the character would have been asleep, her hair would have been down and would have got slightly knotty in her sleep, so i will slightly back-comb the hair, alter the parting so its not her natural one and it would also be very tangled from having blood dried into her hair line. I will also add/comb in blood into other sections of the hair as though she was having her hair held and the blood spread from the wound to the rest of her hair.