HISTORY OF DEATH MASKS

The story of death masks is slightly strange, however in the late 18oo's this was an increasing fashion to have of dead loved ones.

Death masks were also used to have to help identify dead bodies that hadn't been identified.
When the persons face became damaged either by death or during they would take cast of the hands.

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Death masks have actually been around for a long time before photography took over, the Egyptians used mummification and life like tombs to show the dead, such like Tutankhamun.

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VISITED 16/02
KING TUTANKHAMUNS DEATH MASK

picture taken to show shadows for prep for death masks

look like something from KISS hahahah
my interpretation of death mask, really showed the shadowing 

DEATH MASKS- rescue annie

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plaster cast of the most kissed girl in history
VISITED 17/02

This beautiful face mask is that of the Unknown girl found dead in the river Seine at the end of the 19th century.

At the time the unknown dead were put behind the Notre-Dame in a morgue there that kept the dead on display for identification.

Her face was casted and hung outside a shop as no one came forward to say they new her and because of her beauty writers and artist would make up stories about her. It was thought she committed suicide as she didn't have any marks on her. So the story goes she jumped into the water as she was a victim of unrequited love and suicide was her only option.

However this girl has become the most kissed girl, as she's been used as the casting for the mannequins for the CPR dummies

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VISITED 16/02

Bruising and scaring!

First attempt of bruising and wounds on George,
sligtly over done it but still happy

Hair drawings for miss Havisham

practice of miss havisham and face chart

So in finale s lesson this week we have practiced our makeup designs.


This is my finale design, iv called it "Fraying at the edges" as this is how i see Miss Havisham. iv created a third of her face old while a third new, dewy and fresh, like her on her wedding day.

FACE CHART
MISS HAVISHAM
"FRAYING AT THE EDGES"

MODEL-Sophie Sommers
practice of miss havisham

close up of pealing away skin

developing the concept of Miss Havisham and the effects of isulation after 15 year

http://jezebel.com/5856369/heres-helena-bonham-carter-as-the-creeptastic-character-she-was-born-to-play-miss-havisham
visited 12/02

So iv been looking into the effects of staying out of the sun for long periods of time, just like Miss Havisham has and also social isolation.
We are all made aware of her decaying look, her pale ghostly appearance and skin that looks like its hanging on for dear life to her, but i wanted to know how and why this happened. I felt i needed to do her justiest in recreating her. I wanted to get to know the inside and out of this complex character that big screen productions have spent years recreating.



Withen my resursch iv found that not only lack of sunlight will have a damaging affect on your your mentality but also on your viteume D levels.

In children this would cause ricketts, this was very common up until the early twentieth century purely down to poor diet and sheltered life style.
In adults low vitieum D would cause osteomalacia, this is basically were the bones become soft and weak. it causes pain in hip joints and legs and may require a walking stick. the early signs are that of nervousness, and pain.
this is interesting we know fall well that Miss Havishham was sandwich sort of a picnic so could her mental state be prolonged had she of actually leaved the house and tried to live normally. would she have ever gotton over her misfortune with her fiance?

So my question is , Did Miss Havisham have osteomalacia, or possibly an early onsite of it. This sort of info is really building her as a character up in my head.
This would give her a limp or a slouched walk.

I want to show signs of age, and decaying skin withen my face charts and finale design. this is crucial I believe in really portraying her justifiably

Helena Bonham Carter Interview - Great Expectations

THE GREAT EXPECTATIONS DIRECT STUDY AND GOTHIC

• How is the Gothic depicted in Great Expectations?

The Gothic in the great expectations is portrayed though the description of Miss Havisham mansion and the erie effect it has on us though description. Gothic can be portrayed though many ways , by architecture and writing.

• How is the grotesque depicted in Great Expectations?

The grotestesque is the same dress that Miss Havisham has on for twenty plus years. The decaying cake which has our minds reeling at the thought of magot's and the unkept dusty house in which she lives in.

• What are specific elements of the uncanny?

Miss Havisham is the uncanny in the Great Expectations, as she is living this dead, alive, half state world in which everyone is drawn into.
She's presented as a sunken, shallow figure that almost floating around in a haggard wedding dress, were time has stood still.

But, I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had shrunk to skin and bone. Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state. Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress, that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement. Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me. I should have cried out, if I could.
chapter 8

Great Expectations’ directed by Mike Newell 2012

Having read this book what seems many moons ago for A level textiles and fine art, you could almost imagine the groan that escaped my lips that cold winters morning in in contextual studies class.

So after putting off the inevitable and settling down one evening to watch Mike Newells big screen adaption of this gothic love story (released in september 2012) I was thrown not only by the way in which its played and portrayed, but also by the costumes and makeup.

Some deep rooted gothic fire that was simmering deep within me, was set a ablaze again and hungry for this new age twist on a classic Dickens novel.

What I enjoyed most about this film to the previous adoptions is the over the top costume and hair for miss Havisham.
It has a fairy tale quality to it which is refreshing to see as i imagined this for this character when I am reading it.

MISS HAVISHAM

This part was played beautifully by Helena Bonham Carter, who's renowned for her crazy outrageous parts in such films as Harry Potter.

Miss Havisham was stood up by her fiancé the morning of her wedding, she's frozen in time and still continues to wear her wedding dress.

She adopts estella to mould her into a heart braker and try's it out on pip when they are younger. miss Havisham is very wealthy and this is portrayed not only by the mansion she lives in but the fabrics and jewels she wears

viewed 10/02/15
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/29/great-expectations-review

PIP-
Played by Jeremy Irvine is by far the most popular character in great expectations. The story starts with him as a seven year old boy bought up by his sister who is generally quite cruel and brother in law who's a blacksmith. We as the audience are not made aware of how he looks as he growing up other then he's small and not very strong as the book comes from a first persons point of view and yet within the film the portrayal of him I feel is spot on.

Pip finds himself in a thrust of shifting circumstance when introduced to Estella, and is only then made aware of his own low class status when he stats trying to impress estella. we see his character taking on a different attitude.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/11/great-expectations-review
viewed 9/02/15