First video diary - Betrayal

Makeup Tutorial - Burns

hand with Vaseline and hand cream, which in this case I used 'Nivea Moisturing Day Cream'. This is vital to do first as it makes it easier to get the make up off as it prevents from the latex sticking to your hairs on your arm. It also makes it easier for the latex to be spread on as it lubricates the skin, as the skin become a little oily and smooth. After applying this, with a paintbrush apply the 'Zombie Skin Latex Solution' on the dedicated area. Using paint brush means you can range the latex to where ever you desire. As you can see, I have applied the latex to the side of my right hand. Once I smeared the solution on my skin, I waited for this first layer to dry slightly, which the main importance of this stage is to not let the latex to completely dry. From this picture the clear sections are the dry locations and the white sections are the wetter, more damper parts.

The second stage is where you add thin strands of tissue paper or tissue, which I used. Adding this tissue will create the rigid texture to our burn. At this stage you will think this will not turn out that well, but don't it works perfectly! I made sure the tissue I used was very thin so the rigid texture would not be too big to make it less realistic and ensuring it will stick to the latex. I placed the tissue randomly, making the final outcome look like I have been burned in numerous places on my hand. Some sections can be overlapping to raise the texture; this would put depth into the burn ensuring the realism of the injury.

After I placed the tissue on my hand, I added another coating of latex over the tissue. This would aid the adhesiveness of the latex holding the tissue to the skin, making sure it does not come unstuck. I also added this second layer as due to the liquid solution it dampens the tissue, which creates further texture to the burn! If the tissue begins to fray or not stick just add another coat over the tissue. To help fasten up the process you can use a hairdryer to dry the latex, however this may move the tissue slightly, therefore disrupting the burn design.
The bottom picture shows when the latex has dried. I didn't use a hairdryer therefore my design of my burn stayed in tacted. The white section on my hand are the dried pieces of tissue. As you can see. these sections are raised and creates the depthness of the burn.

Once dried I added the first of many coats of paint to the dried tissue latex. The first coloured paint I used was my vibrant red, which I sponged on the central part of the burn. I used the lightest colour first so that I can create a gradient of colour from light to dark from middle to out. I used a sponges so I could accurately apply the paint into every crevice therefore putting shade into the burn. I didn't cover all the white as I wanted to apply darker colours here primary to others.

 I then started to apply a ruby red coloured paint and different shades of browns. This, as you can see, creates an illusion of the different shades of blood within the burn. I sponged on the browns mainly on the surrounding of the red, so I can reinforce the gradient I wanted to create. I also added other colours, such as; dark browns, maroons and jet black. This gives further depths and increase the grotesque of the burn, therefore enhancing the realism of the injury. This is vital as we do not want out trailer to be seen as tacky, if we do use this make up tutorial for our protagonists.

This is the final outcome of my burn. As you can see I added various dark colours such as black to create an ash like appearance, which reinforces that the injury is a burn. These dark colours also suggests that the blood as congealed due to the sweltering heat from the fire, which caused this injury. This injury could be used in our horror film as it is gory and very realistic. It also could create an enigma on how our protagonist gained this burn. This could just be used to add to the emphasis the realism of our trailer.

I also experimented by cutting the latex by with scissors, to create a deep gash into the skin. This increase the goriness of the injury, which emphasises that the trailer is a horror, therefore following the conventions of this genre. Due to the skin flapping, the paint inside looks wet suggesting the wound is still sore and recent, which would be ideal as we could reveal this after the protagonist has been cut something or someone...

Makeup Tutorial - Dirty Nails

Firstly I removed all coloured nail varnish to ensure that we gain the correct colour for this effect. The first material you add is clear nail varnish. in which will protect our nails from the dark paints as I didn't want to stain my nails. You can use fake nails if you want so you can gain a jagged nail, however, I thought that I will use my own nails so that it will be more realistic therefore keep the continuity of our trailer consistent and believable.

These are the main colours I used; black, dark brown, orange/yellow, and red. I chose these colours as they would create a dirt soil like colour when I blended them onto my nail, which will occur within the upcoming stages of this tutorial. I used a fine tipped paintbrush to apply these paints so I did not go over the nail to much as I was going to do this later.

I used the black paint to underline each base of my nails so this would act as if the dirt as has been wedged firmly under them. This would suggest that the protagonist's desparation in trying to escape, but from what or who?
Once I added the black underline, I dampened the paintbrush in water, which I used to slowly smudged the black paint up the nail. This created a weaker black colour, which would aid me into rendering other colours to therefore create a dirt colour on my nails.

The forth stage, consists of using a blunt scalpel, which I ensured was blunt as I didn't want to cut under my nail. The dipped it in hot water and dabbed the tip of it into black and brown paint. I then carefully placed the blunt scalpel under each nail, therefore transferring the paint on the tip of it under my nails. This would create the illusion of mud and dirt being under the nails. The only negative aspect to this stage is on how to getting this paint off- I advise fairy liquid and a scrubber!

After applying paint under the ridge of my nails, I added a brown/yellow tinge colour to the nails, which I used a thicker paint brush so I could get every inch of my nails. This colour made my nails look a horrible dirt like colour, which was ideal for what I wanted to achieve. In places, I added too much paint onto my nails, which I removed by adding water the paint brush and smearing the excess off. This would make the colour weaker, which would look more effect as you don't want the nails to look as though it is just nail varnish. However, the excess paint I did not waste. I used this paint on the skin under nails so it would create the illusion of mud and dirt smearing up the finger tips as well.
This is the final outcome of this tutorial, which did work effectively. This as you can see would emphasis  how desperate the protagonist, within our trailer, wanted to leave the location. An improvement to this would be removing some of the paint on the skin or using a darker colour so that it would look more earth like. On the other hand, I could add real soil to this section by applying it when the paint is slightly damp and wet, therefore they would adhesive together and produce an even more effective outcome. I did this tutorial, so if we have any close up shots of hands it would make the production seem very realistic as the protagonists of the trailer would get filthy trying to escape a group of antagonists trying to kill you. This tutorial was also mainly for the final shot of the trailer, which we are debating on using or not. This is the lighter scene which would involve using a few close ups of the female's protagonist nails, which this make up would therefore reinforce the realism of the mise en scene during this situation

Diary

22nd November
- Running away from Antagonist
- Arriving in the woods
- Establishing shot

Software research

Software Research

This software research was also used to decide what software to use when doing our AS blog as well as what soft ware to use for our A2 blog. The type of software we use during the editing process is a vital part to achieve a high standard opening two minutes, as we need to understand the whole programme, from the cutting shots to the precise point to knowing how to arrange them. This is important so we can benefit from all the technology provided from the editing software.

Microsoft Movie Maker

This is an example of an editing software which we could use for producing our film. Movie maker is made by microsoft, which, as you know, a very well known company and is very user friendly as it should appeal to all ages interested within media and producing films. This software makes you be the editor, with no complicating buttons and techniques needed. Movie Maker also ensures that photos and videos are imported quickly and at the highest and clearest resolution, so the images are clear, avioding buffering and blurriness. It also enhances your movie by providing ready made themes and audios, which could be used for different genres of film and videos, which give us ideas of what kind of music we need and which would suit with the shots we take. Finally, once our movie is ready, we can share it online on Facebook, YouTube or other social networking and video sharing sites, and if neccessary we can send a link of our movie in an email so we can transfer our production to each other to do some editing and to make all our ideas come alive. There are many aspects of this software which may be ideal for producing our film such as the transitoin elements and havign ready made horror music if we needed it. However this software is fairly ammateur, meaning there isn't as much variety of transitions, sounds, cutting techniques etc, which could be a problem.

Adobe Premiere Elements 10 Another software which we could use for creating our film is a software called 'Adobe Premiere Elements 10', which from the title of it is made by 'Adobe'. Although this software is another editing software like Microsoft Movie Maker, this is software is aimed for making and creating videos and films, which is more of an advantage using this software. This software also gives you a more clearer timeline with audio and soundtracks below so you can line the shots and the music precisely together. It also has much more advance effects such as the stabilizer effect, which keeps shots still if they are shakey when they are not meant to be. This may benefit us as we want to make our opening two minutes as best as we can so a more advanced software would aid us for doing this, right? This may not be true as it makes the process a lot more complicated as there is more techniques you can use, meaning more complication. However this software includes a range of transitions, effects, cutting proceses etc, which would definitely benefit in producing our film.

Avid film editing software

This software is a very advance but effective piece of film editing software which is used broadly at universities and lower independent film institutions. This software allows you to explore and exploit your creativity as it provides a range of advanced editing tools and effects, allowing you to produce a high quality production.  The software provide power and precision within all work therefore would be ideal for our production. However, the only negative feature to this software is that it is extremely expensive; both for the full package or pay monthly. This therefore would mean it would be very hard to find the availability for this resource, making the other software more beneficial for us. Although we cannot get our hands on this software, in the future I would be looking to invest in software such as this, as it allows you show your creativity.

Software used

In the end we used this software as it was the most suitable software we could use and excess. To edit our clips together and to make our movie run smoothly we used the editing software called Adobe Premiere Elements 10. We decided on using this as one of our editing softwares because it is what many professionals use when they edit movies, this gives us the experience of a real movie editor and what they have to do to achieve what they achieve.

The effects on this movie editor are acceptable for our genre of movie because they able you to control how the lighting and sounds are e.g. the volume; because our movie is a horror we like to experiment with these things to create tension and fear when you are watching it, making it beneficial for us as editors. Some of the clips had unwanted scenery in them so we tried to figure out a way to remove it; cropping the clip the same way you crop an image was the best way. We explored the editing software to enable us to find the right tool to crop our clip, we managed to find one which brought us to realise how advanced this editing software really is.

Overall this is an ideal application to use to edit our film as it makes the finished project look professional and neat, it is also easy to use which is necessary because we are unexperienced movie editiors. The range of transitions, effects and sounds makes it fun to use. The only bad thing about this software is that they lack a choice of titles and fonts to create the theme for your project, because of this we decided to look at different editing software to create our titles and fonts. We thought that IMovie had a lot of possibilities for our movie as it lets you decide on many fonts and use ones your have downloaded from the internet etc.

Make-up tutorial

I thought I should try out some of what I found on the tutorials, which would ensure that the process is an easy but very effective type of make up to use for our opening two minutes of our film.
First I added the moisturiser to my hands, which ensures my skin is moist and not dry. This would allow the make up to attach to the skin more and is less likely to come of if disturbed or touched. I used E45 cream to so it would not react with any of the resources I was using through this process as it would be very unprofessional if occurred.

This is the equipment I use to produce the cuts. Instead of using the wax make up which was present within the cut make up tutorial, I was advised to use this as it was less likely to react with people's skin where ever it was put and also if very easy to create indents and a cut effect as you have to actually cut the latex to produce the effect. I also used cotton buds to spread the substance onto my skin so I wouldn't get messy and could produce precise shapes.

This is when I was adding the latex substance to my and, with the use of the cotton bud. As you can see the substance come out white on the skin, which allows you too see where you are putting it. However after a few seconds it begins to dry and turns clear and shiny. This shininess would be reduce in the further stages of the process. I added the latex onto my skin in a sausage like shape, which would mean that it is easier to cut into the latex as it would have lots of areas to attach itself on to the skin.

This latex would have to be repeatedly added so that it would build up layers, similarly to our skins, the thicker and more layers you do the most effective the cut appeared like. This also allows lots of fake blood to fill the indent, which would add to the effect of blood flowing out of the deep gash. As you can see I have put many layers on top of each other. In this picture on the left I have added foundation and bronzer to make the cut seem like it is my own skin, rather than making it look very fake and unreal. Adding the use of bronzer, with a brush, reduces the shininess of the latex, ensuring the effect of human skin.

As you can see, this stage is fairly difficult as you have to be careful using the scissors. In this stage you to cut the latex with the scissors, which due to the use of this type of latex, it is easy to cut through, avoiding cutting your actual skin. This is one of the longest parts of the process in forming a cut as you have to be precise and accurate as this determines the shape of your cut. Using this cutting effect makes the latex peel, which creates the effect of the skin actually being cut. Due to the moisturiser used at the beginning, the latex does not effect the skin in any way. Be careful during the cutting stage!

During this stage if some added make up ( bronzer/ foundation) is removed, re-add some to sure there is no shininess or discolouration present. Next add red paint to the indentation of the cut, this may not realistic yet but adding different colours from darker red to brown would add the effect of scubs forming or being recently cut, which is ideal for the use of it being used in the opening scenes. Adding the surrounding part of the indentation with a darker colour shows the dried blood effect and emphasises the deepness of the cut.

This is the finally result as you can see on the right. This is very effective to use as it appears to look very realistic, and emphasises the pain and depth of the cut. The use of the various colours used on the cut, increases the realistic of the cut and if we do use this effect, close ups would be no problem as we can add further detail if needed. Including a slight shine to the cut suggests that the cut is becoming increasingly infected. This could be ideal for the use of being in our film as the antagonist can have these on various parts of their skins, especially the hands and even the face, depending on the use of costume. As you can see this is all the equipment I used to produce this cut. I used: a paintbrush, scissors, moisturiser, foundation, bronzer, sponges, skin latex, warm water, make up brush, cotton buds and paint, which consist of two shade of red (scarlet and bright red) and brown. Overall this is a very good idea to use to for our make up for the antagonist, plus it follows the conventions of a horror as involves blood and gore.

Make up tutorial

First I add moisturiser, which is to ensure my skin is moist and refresh. This would allow the make up I use in this technique to stay on my skin longer and to ensure that it would not disappear if tempered with or touched. The type of moisturiser I used was E45 cream as it is all made from natural substances, which means that the make I use in this process does not affect my skin in anyway and if used the actor would not be happy if they reacted to the materials used.



The next stage is adding a smidgen of bronzer, which is where you use a make up brush you ensure the bronzer comes out smooth and flat. Using this would make the section of skin, where the bruise is being placed, smooth and to avoid uneven tones of skin colour. This would also help for the eye-shadow to mix with it, which would make the whole effect of the bruise even more effective. you can get this bronzer from any type of shop, but all you need to take into account is that it have to suit the colour of the actor, which is very important as you do not want them to look orange. This photo show the first type of eye-shadow needed for the base colour of our bruise which we want to achieve. Using a eye-shadow brush, would allow you to delicately apply the eye-shadow, so that it can form an actual looking styled bruise. The shape should be a little uneven so that it is more realistic as usually bruises are not in a specific shape. Using a fairly light colour means if the shape goes wrong it would not be as noticeable as if I used a darker colour it would mean I would have to start over. These are the next types of colours I used. The first one was a shade up from the previous colour so it would make the colour before more visible to see. The next colour was added around the edge of the other two to show that the impact occurred more harshly around the edge, but also to bring out the bruise more. The final colour was to ensure that if I added too much of the darker brown I could blend it into my skin, so it would avoid me starting all over again, as that would be very time consuming. This stage is using even darker colours, dark blue and darker brown. This is to emphasise how the bruise is coming out as just like a real one would do. The blue eye-shadow is to symbolise the most painful part of the bruise as usually this is whereas the darker brown is to help blend all the colours I have used so far, to make a gradient of colour. As you can see in the picture, these colours are the most dominant colours, which make the bruise look very realistic, which is ideal for our opening two minutes of our film.

This is the final result of making a bruise. This looks very much like a bruise as it has all the colours of one and suits the colour of the skin, meaning it doesn't look like it should not be there. However this shape may not be ideal for our film, as we should make it more like finger impressions, as if someone has grabbed someone’s arms. This may be ideal to be part of the protagonists make up regime as it could suggest domestic violence occurring in her life or something relatively similar

This is all of the equipment used to make this bruise. The equipment I used was, bronzer, make up brush, moisturiser, blusher brush (optional), eye-shadow applicator ( one of two preferably) and eye-shadows. These colours should consist of three colours being the same colour but different shades of this colour, a blue and a pale skin colour.

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Film poster ideas,influences and inspiration

Picture

Our main Inspiration for our film poster is this photo that we found online, its very simple however we think it makes a massive impact. The black and white filter is very simplistic but also effective, it makes the location seem more secluded and creepy but also sad at the same time. The character is clearly wearing dark clothing therefore matches well with the grey backdrop. The black and white filter connotes sadness , anger and portrayal also reflecting the mood of the film. The misty gloomy background gives the impression that something could be hiding behind it and the tall thin trees tower over our antagonist making him look less powerful, dominant and significant.

The basic choices of clothes connotes that the character could be a teenager therefore very naïve, also giving the audience a hint to what type of character are film is going to include. The gas mask is quite a new form of disguise in horror/thriller films but is also suitable because its very accessible. The mask is also very good as it doesn't show any emotion or give a hint as to what gender the person behind it could be therefore creating tension. The tilt to the antagonists head is very subtle but effective it gives the audience the impression that they are confident and arrogant therefore intimidating.

Although we love the way the photo looks at the moment we also want to add our own twist. Of course we will take a completely new photo ,but one that is very similar, but add faded layers of similar photos on top of the original photo. We were thinking of adding photos that were the exact same photo but zoomed in , giving the illusion that the antagonist is walking towards the audience but also disappearing too.

Slogan

We have decided that we want a short snappy slogan that will consist of a 3-4 word sentence or just 3-4 relatable words. Les miserable's film poster has become an influence of ours. Their slogan is short ,snappy but doesn't take centre stage on the poster. Although Les Miserable is romance musical is still has given us ideas which could come across as creepy on our poster. The use of the full stops after every word makes each of them distinct and powerful. The simplistic texts works well against the dominant picture which would also work well with our choice of photo that's all simplistic. Even though the slogan isn't in the centre of the poster the idea of having it above the film title means that people can get an idea of what the film is about before they know the name. The slogan is also in capital letters making it seem significant.

Title

Due to our inspiration for our background picture ,we have decided to have the name of the film at the top of the poster. The picture we have been inspired by has a lot of bare space which could be easily filled by the title. Even though the background is black and white we still want to go with either black or white writing ,both stand out well against the light grey background and both have different meanings. With black connoting Death , power and mystery and white being associated with purity and innocence ,they both go with the themes of our film. The bold ,simple font from this movie poster , The Echo, means that it doesn't take notice away from the poster and means that the title speaks for its self rather than it being obvious to the audience what the film could be about. Having a detailed font can give a lot away about a movie for example if the font looked like dripping blood , then you know people will be killed.