evaluation

Looking back at my work, im some what disapointed, i know i can achive a much higher standard.
i have have a few differcult mounths that have unfortantly interupted with my studdies, however im will look at this as a learning curbve and next time if i run into a problem area i shall try to manage my time better.

final photoshoots

quienton and claudia practics

claudia ideas

quienton ideas

Quinton mood board

Claudia & Quentin TV Series and ideas

•What have you chosen – and why.

I have chosen True blood, the TV series as my back drop for Claudia and Quinton.

I feel Claudia could easily be moulded to fit in with the  dark, quirkiness of Bon-temps, and its diverse complex mysterious characters.

True blood not only has imaginations running wild but also hearts with the “drop dead” , (no punt indented!) main characters.

It’s a community full of magic and mysteriousness  were anything can happen to anyone and each persons stories fit beautifully around Sookie and her day to day going on.

•What is the setting for series? American South, urban Bristol etc.

Within the suburb area of Bon temps

Audience demographics

•Who watches this?

The series is aimed at adult women and men 18 years to late forty's. It gives the viewer a touch with the dark side, and a feeling of playing with fire.

Women tend to enjoy the romance and story telling while men love the violence and sex.

•Hopeless romantics

•Crazy in love

•despiration

Your first character

•How do they fit in with the series?

Claudia is known well within the Bon Temps community as a local crazy, and Sookie has taken a shine to her, feeling her sorry for being an outcast.

Sookie completely understands the sadness that comes from being seen different by everyone and goes out of her way to look after her as she's acrophobic. She visits her on a weekly basis at her apartment rented off her good friend, shape shifter and boss, Sam Merlotte.

•How will the setting inform your character.

She will have a ever changing appearance, such as hair or makeup  possibly a superficial wounds, but this Is just accepted by Sookie as part of her personality

•What will you need to change/add to your character?

Ill need to add history for Claudia to fill her out as a character to become more believable i.e.

•She has a addiction to V (Vampire blood)

•She attended the same school as Sookie Stackhouse

•How will the look appeal to audience demographics?

Its purposely tailored around the everyday goings on, just like the TV series and books we see the blood but who did it come from?

It will have the dark seduction and mysterious to it like that of the series.

What key word did you choose to develop your first character?

•Why did you choose it.

I chose fork as my key word for Claudia as it’s the weapon that she uses on Quinton to stab him in the neck when her materializers in her apartment.

•What did the key word inspire you to investigate? Photography/other films/other horror characters/books etc.

•Iv looked into neck wounds that have been inflicted by bluntter objects.

•The amount of blood loss from these injurys

•What scene do you see your character in – reference the setting and styling of character, character motivation

•This will be the last scene with both Quinton and Claudia in it. Quinton ha appeared in her apartment fresh from a feed witch is obvious to Claudia. She also knows that feeding on humans generally leads to sex because of the power of blood and vampire bite is amazing. So Claudia go's into a rage and stabs him with a silver fork in the neck.

Sookie knock the door with her weekly shop and sees Claudia in a guilty crazed state, sees all the blood but no one else……so who

What key word did you choose to develop your second character

•Why did you choose it.

I chose face as my key word for Quinton as his appearance is always either muted or focused when he appears in Claudia's apartment, this is depending on her moods.

•What did the key word inspire you to investigate? Photography/other films/other horror characters/books etc.

Iv re watch woman in black as I feel this is a good example of faces being muted or blurred. Its only occasionally that you have a full feel of her appearance

Claudia Mood Board

i envision claudia a very desturbed girl, although this may not be visable from the out side. i origanally want to play around with the ideas of a dark eyes and lips but i would like her to lok a little bit more desturbed and yet normal at the same time. to do this im going to incoperate pop art into it as this give the look of her her not being real, which is like her current state of mind.

TRUE BLOOD

we have to decide on the tv series that we want our characters to set in and then find two models to makeup how we interpertate Quentin and Claudia.

TV Series-

•The Walking Dead

•American Horror Story

•Dexter

•True Blood

•Bates Motel

•Buffy the Vampire Slayer

•Vampire Diaries

•Penny Dreadful

•In the Flesh

•Being Human

•Hemlock Grove

•Hannibal

Key words-

•Special delivery

•Blue coat

•Hydro bath

•White rose

•Ascend

•Glass prison

•Red rave

•White rave

•Taste

•Bandages

•Fork

•Stitches

•Save us

•Hellevator

•Slipping

•Veiled

•Spinning

•Exam

•The Woods

•Spiral

•Awakening

•Door

•Face

iv chosen True blood and my keys words are FORK and 

introduction to claudia and quentin

Claudia

Claudia is a girl in her twenties. As a child she was left alone to develop with little parental guidance and through her relationship with T.V. movies developed an unhealthy relationship with Horror films, believing this to be the way life really is.

All the scenes take place in various parts of Claudia’s apartment, which is European in style with
a great deal of kitsch décor. She is agoraphobic and is kept in touch with the outside world by her neighbours who provide her with her every day requirements.  She models herself on a variety of girls often twisting her look to suit whichever film she is watching at the time and there is often
a nod to the main character in the current film within her appearance.

The script portrays her as psychotic and there is always the feeling that although her character is scripted/can be seen as humorous, danger is just around the corner.   However all this is normal to Claudia and she is of a cheerful disposition in this mad world of hers.

Quentin

Claudia has an imaginary boyfriend, Quentin, who is long suffering and a constant disappointment to her. They don’t live together but he visits regularly and they talk on the telephone if he can’t get in to see her. As he is part of her imagination his appearance changes to suit her mood. Sometimes he will be a David Beckham looking guy, whilst in another scene he will appear as a Pete Docherty type, Daniel Craig type or a Hollyoaks Babe. If she is having a bad day he will morph into an uncouth couch potato chav with all that brings with it.

He is as into the horror film genre as she and into role-playing to suit her whims and moods.

Claudia has a paranoid suspicion that he is constantly having affairs behind her back and keeps him firmly under her thumb, sometimes restraining him or keeping him prisoner in one of the rooms.

continuity for Havisham

times assement iss Havisham

Model- Sophie Sommer

Hair

Key words for inspiration- romantic/wedding/lose/messy

• i sectioned the back off and curled using a tong
• to give the hair more volume i back combed in between sections and messed up the curls abt to give a disheveled look
• i stoped curling when i came to the crown
• with the rest of the hair i sectioned the front and with the remaing hair on the crown i tied with an hair band and pined into a bun
• with the secitions at the front i pined back and curled the ends
• i added dried roses and white hairspray to give the ageing feel to the hair
  
  
  
  
  

assement esttela

Model- sophie sommers

skin type- combantion

Hair-

• section hair into three with a centr parting at the front
• with thw back section tie up in to a pony tal that sits just below the crown
• section the pony tail into three, but the third secton only a quarter of the size as the other two
• with the two bigger sections of hair, from the pony tail, fold back on them selfs and pin into place
• with the smaler section fold around the "bow look" that was just created to hind and other hair or pins and then grip firmly in place.
• with the two sections of the front, pick a side to start on and using curlers creat a bareel curl and secure in place, repeat this a second time above this and secure
• repeat the process again on the other side 

Estella messying around with looks

Here i was playing around with different hair looks for Estella. i relised half way though creating this hair up that the time period for Estella dont match this hairand also the barrel curls at the front would need to be pulled further back.

practice for miss havisham

for my Miss Havisham look, I wanted half of my models face to be old and the old to be creeping over the younger freshers side of her face.

I dont relly feel the need to change much from my practice and hopfully it wil all go according to plan on assesment day.

practice for estella

iv really enjoyed creating and designing estella, however the areas i need to concentrate on for the final shoot will be, hair- taming any loss hair, i will also concider a nude lip instead of purpel.

sophie sommers
estella practice

side

hand print on neck

face charts and hair for mrs havisham

sa3o2

face charts and hair designs for estella

subtle makeup and bruising

esttela inspiration for final design

Its subtly suggested that Esstella was a victuem of domestic violance in her marrage, so with this in mind I wanted to reflect the brusing technques learnt that also suggest that in the finale image.

estella 2012 film
13/04

Iv been  looking  at fresh bruiseing and old brusing to help with designing and doing justise to Estella's finale design.
i didnt

13/04
bruising from start to finish

i played around with the idea of her being strangled by her husband, i like this idea as i wanted to keep the makeup very fresh and youthful
taken on my own camra
13/04

George as my model
we spent a bit of time doing extream bruising and cuts.
its a little over the top and more thetircal

HAIR

I like the idea of creating hairstyles based on these from the 2012 film

Momento mori and park cemertrys

Death became a family affaire when took place, life was very short lived in the 1800s so the morning part was long wined tridition following in the footsteps of queen victoria whom morned for fourtys years for her husband. this eventually took ahold of everyone and became fashionable to morn for a long period of time after a loved one had passed.

Ladies would usually have manual suggesting how long they should mourn and what to wear, this was called "The Queen and cassels"
mirrors were cover with black fabric and a person in deep morning didn't attend an social events for up to a year.

Its a known fact that they took weeks to bury there dead as they feared that they could wake up in there coffins alive, if this ever did happen the person more then likly sliped into a coma and awoke before being buried.

They would also bury the dead with a string attached to there finger, joined to bell above the grave just incase they woke they can pull it and alert the living!!

There was also profescinal morners. you would pay them to turn up and howl and cry at your funeral. the people with the most mourners were obvisoly loved more hahahah

Victorian spirt photography and victorian griving

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/25/61/11/256111dfd6793eec6bdcb8ab93ba139c.jpg
17/03/15
double exposed picture of a woman

Spirt photography was first used by William H. Mumbler in 1860, it was discovered by complete accident when taking photo of himself. This was actually double exposure.
He then later set up business when he realised there was a gap in the market for this sort of thing, and eventually got found out and was bought to trial.

http://www.panicd.com/encyclopedia/mumler-spirit-photography.html
17/03

Obvisoly these photos were hoaxes, it didn't stop other photographers from doing the same.  The victorians were obsessed with death and holding onto dead loved ones, they even went as far as taking family photos with the dead releitives in it proped up to keep them in place.
they would paint there eyes on to make them look alive.
This may seem compleatly strange now but then it was just part and parcel of everyday life.

whos the dead one?

this is a great example of family photos
21/03

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/spirit-photography-victorian-england
17/03