Quentin Shoot and Evaluation

Products:

- Kryolan foundation palette

- Illamasqua skin base white

- Viva eyeshadow

- Red eyeliner pencil

- M.A.C eyebrow pencil - lingering

- Fresh scratch blood

- Brushes 

- Black Thread

- Collodion

- Kiko red eyeshadow

- Wig

- Hair brush

- Sectioning clips

- Hair band

- Kirby grips

Steps: Makeup: 

1) Mix the foundation palette (Alabaster & FS38) with skin base white so the makeup appears slightly more paler than the face.

2) Pencil on eyebrows to fill them and shape/define them.

3) Using the viva palette, mix purples/reds/blues/greens/yellows to make bruises on the forehead and the cheek. 

4) Apply brown under the eye to create bags using a red eyeliner, pencil along the waterline and blend to create redness. 

5) Apply collodion around the mouth (top and bottom) using the thread, cut down to size to fit over the mouth. Press and leave to dry. Repeat until the whole mouth is covered.

6) Once dry, apply the scratch blood over the top to create a blood effect.

Steps: Hair:

1) Pull hair back into a tight ponytail, quite low down. 

2) Clip fly-away bits of hair back, especially the fringe, hair by the ears, and the back of the neck.

3) Apply the wig so it fits securely.

Front

Full Length 

Favourite Side Shot

Key Word - Bandages

Evaluation

I am very happy with how this shoot has turned out. I think he looks really evil and like a psychopath which is exactly what I wanted to portray. The one thing that challenged me the most, throughout the whole process was trying to make Quentin (who is a girl) look like a boy. We know it is a girl who transforms into a boy but the viewers for my series won't find this out until the last episode that I have  created, so I need to make him look as realistic as possible. Another thing was the wig, Claudia would need a wig in order for her to pull off her transformation. But the one I managed to get wasn't very realistic looking, the shine was the main problem, especially being shot in the studio with the bright flashing lights. (If I do wig making next year, I'll hopefully be able to make my own for next time!) Despite the problems I faced, I am extremely happy with the outcome. The images have come out exactly as I hoped and I feel my idea has been portrayed across well. Apart from the stitches and bruising, the makeup doesn't really involve any special fx or any horror as such to it. However my characters behaviour is what makes it a horror series. It is not always necessarily portrayed through makeup, but their actions. 

Because I did my shoot quite early, I managed to get some advice from Kat - who told me to soften down the redness in the eyes with photoshop. Below I have done so, comparing the two images to see the difference. I will submit the original, untouched photo for my assignment. 

Left: Before                       Right: After

Hard to see but looks so much better blended (Kat was right!)