Princess:
the princess is quite generic across all thriller genre sub genres and is typically as natural as possible for any gender. Often nudes and pale pinks are used on female princesses to show innocence and their youthfulness. However, there is normally a lack of thick foundation and eye shadow etc that takes away from the natural fresh faced look. Males normally don't wear any makeup whatsoever as the aim is normally to make them look as normal and typical is possible to allow the audience to relate to them.
Villain:
The villain, weather male or female, usually wears very pale foundation or power to instantly set them apart from the usual every day character. They also often wear very dark colours eg black lip/eye shadow and very heavy contour to emphasise bone structure.
However, you often come across villains that wear a lot more special effects makeup or pace paint to make them seem more irrational and deranged. This makeup style is found more often in the horror sub genre of thriller.
Other typical makeup:
Within the horror-thriller sub genre there is often a female within the narrative that has very sexual connotations surrounding her. She is usually the first female to be killed off throughout the course of a film. Therefore, often a red lip and eye shadow, rosy cheeks, big eyeliner and big eyelashes are used to conform to the stereotype.
Within many thriller sub genres there is often some sort of injury, typically seen more in the horror thriller sub genre. To create this eg a zombie, wound, knife in the body etc media makeup is used. This is the most varied type of makeup used in the genre as you can experiment as much as your narrative allows and can be adapted to any event.
How will this help me:
This research will help me as i now know what stereotypical makeup is used on specific characters. Therefore, I can focus mainly on the princesses and villains makeup as they are the characters that are featured in my opening sequence. It also has helped me to thin about the representation behind the makeup in relation to the character. For example, I could use nudes and pale pinks for the princess to show her innocence and make her seem more vulnerable.
Also, although the makeup for the villain is typically pale with emphasised bone structure, as our villain inst a typical villain I could challenge this. I could make the villain seem perfectly kept and normal to create a creepier tone around him as the audience can relate to a character that appears to be 'normal'. That means when they become aware that he isn't a 'normal' person it makes them relate the character to people they know again making the opening sequence more psychological.
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