Theatrical Makeup : How to Make Fake Bruises

the storyline of my opening two minutes follows a blow to the head, in my opening two minutes you dont see how she is hit. this is in the flashback, and the reason why you dont get to see how she got hit is so there is a storyline to my entire film, as I have now decided the main character also gets hit. this is so i can experiment with the camera and getting it to fall on the floor, and when editing it allows me to use different blurrring effects so the audiance can't see how she died, but you see the bruises. the camera is going to be a point of view shot, being from Jasmines perspective. This particular make-up tutorial is best to use as it is more realistic in its aesthetics and is easier to create with materials at my disposal. It will also question the audiance to how it was caused. I am going to do my own make-up tutorial of this particular bruise technique to show i created these myself, and experimented to get it to the best possible standard.

Change of Scene

I have put together the editing for my opening two minutes that involves Jasmine, my main character, walking across the field to the classroom. The editing put together lasts for 59 seconds, which means that my plot at the moment is too long to include any other scenes that are long and complicated. Therefore, I am changing the plot of my story to make it so there is now only two characters, the main character and the dead character. This saves any dialogue which will disturb the plot of the film, and how the dead and the living interact. The dead will have a ghostly appearance but other than that the plot remains the same. A flashback of the death and a clip of the ghost interacting with the environment.

Filming timeline.

Wednesday 11^th January 2012

Start filming the opening clips. These include the establishing shots and the tracking shots to the classroom. It also involves the key scene to the hallucination.

First set of clips: The scenery is dark. Establishing shots are of the surroundings. There is a clip of a silhouette of a person in far away in the shot, at the left third of a shot. The scenery is then shown in a wide shot where I will take clips of the scenery at different times of the day.

Second set of clips: Jasmine comes onto the screen, again at the left third of the shot. I will be filming different shots as she walks along the pathway to the classroom, some will be shots from the characters perspective. A wide shot will establish Abbie in the background, although in this stage of time she isn’t overly dramatic and blends in with other people who will be sitting on the grass. The shots film jasmine as she makes her way to the classroom.

Third set of clips: The flashback: this is because of the characters that are available on this day, Abbie and Jasmine. The flashback involves the field again as this is how she dies. I will be involving the reasoning to why she dies, which will be relevant at a later stage in time when it comes to filming the middle clips of the opening two minutes.

Friday 20^th January 2012

On this day all of my actors are free so this is when some of the main shots will be filmed.

First set of clips: The first set of clips is picking up where the opening clips come off from on the Wednesday. It involves the conversation inside the classroom which leads to the hallucination that the main character has. There will be lots of over the shoulder shots and it will be more interactive for the viewers.

Second set of clips: These will be the clips that have my dead character, Abbie, involved in. This will involve the make-up tutorial where she has the wounds on her head from when she died. It will also be a conversation clip but only the main character is more apprehensive.

Third set of clips: this will be where the scene is exactly the same as the beginning, and Abbie who is on the grass is seen more closely as the dead character, and she disappears in some clips to show only the main character can see her. This involves part of the conversation. Camera shots include her turning around so the audience can see the head wound the last time before the opening title comes up.

Wednesday 25^th January 2012

This will be the day that I use to finish off any clips that I haven’t got to the best that it could be, and therefore the filming will be finished.

Fake Brains Makeup Tutorial

For the use of mise-en-scene, I decided to find a tutorial for the make-up that would be used to create the headwound, and as the story of the plot involves a headwound I decided to find a makeup tutorial that involves the brain. This way it is easy for the audiance to see that she is in fact the character that is dead. This could be a way for me to experiment with how the characters will look like, and will make the audiance more engaged at the sight of the blood which would make it of a higher age group.

Setting Final

My first setting that I had decided to use wasn't suitable for my scene, as my actors couldn't make this area. I have decided instead to use Therfield school, this is so we can easily get the shots and the actors will be able to come in at any time. I chose to base most my two minutes in one of the classrooms, this is because it is more the conversation between actors than the setting. I will also be able to experiment with different things such as make-up and costume.

 This desk is where the hallucination would take place, and this will be effective in an empty space as it suggests the feeling of being alone, which is how I want the main character to be seen in my video.

 The surrounding of the rooms will be empty except for the other two characters that will be in conversation, where the audiance will get to see the seperate personalitys that they will have.

The school grounds will make the mise-en-scene suitable, as the characters in the flashback will be in school uniform. This is when the character dies, so my actors will need to be in school uniform for this costume.

Preliminary Task

Our prliminary task consists of a conversation between two people, using match on action, the 180 degree rule and shot/reverse shot. This is effective in our blogging as it gives us an understanding on how to create a scene that looks realistic to the audiance, which is why we were told to create a scene that showed the use of this in action. We did this because it was a good way to show our understanding of the task and that we used these techniques effectively.

The clip consists of one character walking down a corridor and through a door, this was the task we were given, where the characters had a short conversation between each other. This allowed us to use a wide shot to open, which gave the audiance a basic understanding of the area they were in. The corridor could bring across a sense of being enclosed which could suggest that is how the characters could be feeling. The use of match on action is used to establish that she is opening the door, which was used effectively for the audiance to know that she was entering this particualar room.

Match on action is a shot that is used to establish what is going to happen, which is where it opens with a far away shot of a character to a close up straight away of an aspect which is important, which is why it is effective.

It was effective in the use of shots when the audiance are then taken inside the room, to which the camera follows the camera and then pans over to the left, to where I am sitting. This establishes to the audiance that this is who the character is going to be talking to.

The conversation is where the 180 degree rule is shown at the best it can be, using a mix of the over the shoulder shot for the conversation. We decided to use a simple conversation between two characters about a job interview. This way, the characters both have to talk for the conversation.

The 180 degree rule is where the camera remains on one side of the area, so the audiance are remained on one side of the scene. If the 180 degree rule is broken it then confuses the audiance when the characters are changed from one side of the video to the other. This is used with other shots, because it can easily be linked. I included it with shot/reverse shot, which is the last thing that needed to be included in order to finish the clip. Shot/reverse shot is with the over the shoulder shots that I have used, it is where the shot you used for one clip is then reversed to the same shot but on the other side, this makes it more effective when you see it in the video.

I think that this is helpful in me being able to experiment with my use of shots, and it has also helped me realise that I shouldnt think about using the shots too much as the overuse of it could also ruin the feel of the clip, I just need to focus on the 180 degree rule, which now I fully understand.