Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Costume And Makeup Planning And Practise

In our opening sequence we will have to put both of our characters into costume and makeup.

Olivia (Carmen):

Because Liv is the young female who has been captured within our narrative we have decided to represent her as almost doll like. This has connotations that she is being controlled, she's young and vulnerable and she is naive to the world. Therefore, we plan for her to wear no foundation at all, wear pink blusher and curled eyelashes. This conforms to the ideas of an old fashioned dolls face. Her hair will be in two loose plaits hanging on both sides of her face and will have pink ribbons, again, as if she's a doll and someone has done her hair.

Her costume will be a silk pink nightie, using the colour pink to continue the youthful and vulnerable connotations. Also, she will be wearing hand cuffs on her wrists and chains on her ankles. Because of the chains we want to make them appear to be as realistic as possible considering she has been held for a long time now. Therefore, we will use subtle makeup to make her skin around the handcuffs and chain to appear red and bruised.


Joseph (the kidnapper):

Joe will be made to look as pale as possible with dishevelled hair but a perfectly kept beard. This can help to represent his mixed personality and also the mix of emotions he feels towards Carmen (he's meant to love her as his own but despises her as he's not his own daughter). His clothing, as chosen by the focus group, will be black suit trousers, a pastel coloured turtle neck jumper and a cardigan/jacket over the top. The suit is effective as the professionalism displayed on his surface is a direct contrast of the disorder in his brain the audience later learn of.


The majority of the makeup we plan on using is simple and doesn't require practise as it is basically a lack of makeup and white powder. However, the bruising and redness around the handcuffs will have to be done with makeup.

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