Makeup/Costume Planning

In terms of makeup, we can see that the actors at first have a natural and minimal use of make up however as the story develops and the characters become more and more insane, the makeup begins to show that they look distressed, fatigued and mentally unstable. We can see in the second image posted from the film The Shining that the main character has been given dark, baggy eyes and appears shabby in his appearance. Because our character starts off mad, we intend to introduce the character with these features so that the audience can instantly recognise her as a mentally unstable person. When talking about costume, it is clear that the costumes chosen for these characters look like normal pieces of clothing that are appropriate and match the age that the character is meant to be. Because of this, we want to match our costume to our character and story line, which is why we want to show her in a hospital looking gown so that the audience can tell she has come from a hospital. The makeup we would need are natural pale colours that suit the characters skin tone, yet also make the characters skin appear quite pale. We would then need darker colours such as black and grey which can surround the characters eyes and give the appearance of possession and unstableness.

Although our location is different to those shown in the images, the fact that these images depict the main character to be in various locations such as a hotel or house, this shows that any location can provide a psychological aspect. Not only this, both films imply a sense of darkness and coldness. For example the images from The Unborn have a dark tint to it implying that the character is alone in darkness in an evening setting whereas The Shining always uses unnatural lighting such as a fire place, lamps, lights etc. This implies that the location they are in is cold. From this we can relate these locations to ours as woodlands are usually dark as the shadows of the trees block out the sun and at the right time (evening), the darkness can make them appear very creepy and therefore make the character appear vulnerable due to the isolation in the darkness. We will need to make sure that we take advantage of the creepy aspects that already exist within woodlands such as shadows and uncomfortable noises. Not only this, we need to ensure that we find a location within the woods that isn't too hard to film on as most woodland can be on very unstable ground.  

The choices of actors within these films are a young female and an older male. These characters contrast each other within both age and gender however they both depict the psychological aspect very well. We have chosen to use a young female (roughly 16 years of age) as we feel that females are most likely to be stereotyped to be the victim in a horror genre and it'll make the audience feel more interested as the film as it would appear more realistic for a 'weak' girl to be seen as the victim. This relates to the victim within the Unborn images as she too is a young female who appears quite weak in her physique as a female isnt stereotyped to be as strong as a male who has muscles, strength etc. This is why we have chosen to use a young female as we feel for our first proper film, we should stick to what we know best and elaborate our decisions on that so that we can create the best film possible.

Examples of Make up for our character:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZIlYn2Wo0&feature=related

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