Today went great, first of all in the morning we all met up in the back room in the library and we were given a brief about what we were expected to see and what was to happen. Don was creating his own mini-episodes of a soap show which will potentially be a weakly downloaded clip and hopefully he could take this onwards to maybe even an official scheduled programme on television. After being explained, we travelled up to Bahlam by 2 separate cabs, on the way we saw all these beautiful views and venues around Bahlam and came across the common station. It was a relaxing ride up there, although when we got out of the cabs. It was freezing cold!
We headed first towards the outside of a clothes shop next to "GC Kitchen" which was where the first shooting took place. At first we put all of our luggage down and discussed who shall be assisted by the different sections of staff.. after coming to a conclusion who we would all work with. I ended up working with the make up specialist Joanna Sim but we all called her Jo.
This is her professional work card:
Here are some of the examples of work that she has created previously:
This is what has been described for the purpose of her artistic work in her own works:
Feb 2010
This play was an adaptation of King Lear, set in the 1960's. I worked alongside other CBMA students doing 1960's make-up and hairstyles. It was performed at The Rosemary Branch Theatre, in north London.
This play was an adaptation of King Lear, set in the 1960's. I worked alongside other CBMA students doing 1960's make-up and hairstyles. It was performed at The Rosemary Branch Theatre, in north London.
- The affects that she has included in this women's face is simply amazing, first of all you can tell that the concealer she has used really stuns out the women's face and the small amount of blusher that was used on her cheek was a excellent affect because she has such high cheek bones it has a good reflect.
- The red lipstick also blends in with the purple dress and blue eye-shadow because they are invert colours.
- I love the way she has done the eye-shadow because its an unusual look and the photography used looks professional, not a lot of people would think of doing that technique and both eyes look identical.
WOW! From this photo I can already tell that Joanna is quite experienced with working with Horror Film actors and their makeup. The storyline for this photo was of a young girl who committed suicide and as her parents were in struggle to find her, it was too late. She had killed herself and as you can see this photo is really affective and we can empathise the emotions that were going through the girls head, she must have felt alone and upset, or even heartbroken. This was a short film called One Last Note by Epping Forest Fleet.
- The makeup affect she has used makes the character look dull and deadly and her hair looks very warn out and dirty, she looks almost dead but as in she was born with no blood in her body. Her head looks like it could have the texture of rock.
- Her lips blend in with her skin which is not good.
- Her face looks gritty and dirty, she also looks slightly bruised.
I enjoyed researching her work.. So as I was saying!
After meeting our working partners, we then were told to sit back and watch what was happening in the first scene, we were told to take some photos as well.
- In this photo of scene 1 a women who is out shopping in Bahlam stops beside a shop window and slowly drops her bag and starts to gaze into the window and 'checks herself out'. She seems almost amazed with her new look . As if she had just came back from the hairdressers and had purchased a new cut!
- Don the director kept cutting the scenes and many acts had to be done over and over again until she got it perfect. After the clip at that angle was perfect, he would then move it on to the next angle. He done this at least four times.. with the: close up, side view, long shot and ext.
In this picture we can see Shenell in the same scene that the actress before was in.. that's because Shenell's job was to improvise and be a stand by for the lady. The camera crew wanted to use Shenell almost as a prop to see if the positioning for the scene was good.
After about an hour we headed off to our next location for scene 2..
Fortunately this scene was inside a posh pub which was very warm!
When we got inside we all headed off to our separate working spaces.. As I expected I had to watch as Joanna aka Jo as she created her master piece with her patients face. Although I did not get to actually put make up on someones face, I did observe the situation and I learnt a few tips on how to do a smokey effect with eye shadow. And I also learnt that even males(actors) get their make up done not just females (actresses).
After the actors and actresses were all dolled up, they then set up for scene 2.
This is a image of one of the heads of the film cast crew giving instructions to one of the staff telling them to adjust something in the scenery area used to produce the clip:
This is a photo of one of the film crew showing us how they use a DVCM microphone enable to project the actors (in terms of both sex) voices. The lighting in the scene is bright enough to blatantly see that it is meant for a day line scenery.
This photo shows how the actor looks frustrated and angry with the actress as tension is building up. They have also positioned the microphone closer to the both of them, because what the actor was about to say was important and a highlight of the scene.
This photo is VERY important - tit shows a various of activity happening. The main film recorder who is the director in terms of actually rolling the film who is in the black top looks as if he is focusing on something near the wall. Whilst Don is the overall director is exploring it with him, they are setting up and everyone is getting ready. The script writer in the pink shirt seems to be interested as well, but the man with the long hair in the greenish top is more worried about getting lightening and sound to be in good condition for the next scene.
So can you see how everyone is connected? And trying to do their best as a team to make this mini-film happen?!
This last scene .. Scene 3 was intense.
Don used a technique with the position and height differences with them both to show how tall the actress looks sitting down as if to show how in power she is. She is blackmailing the actor with a tape proofing that he has been cheating on his fiancee (pronounce fi-onse-say). His attitude seems as if he is trying to put on an intimidating act, but he knows that he is desperate to get that footage. He even offers her money, but she seems to be more interest in playing mind games with in. She seems logically intelligent and has a cheeky attitude. Kind of like the role of Janine Butcher from "EastEnders" when she blackmails Ian Bill.
After this scene, we received email addresses from the people we worked with and set off back to school
THIS IS A PHOTO OF ME AND THE DIPLOMA CREW NEXT TO BAHLAM SUBWAY!
Today was a great experience and I will never forget it :) !
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