Make-Up and Costuming for 'Lucy Allen' (Evil Girl Character)

After experimenting with various materials, I have collected the essentials needed to represent the 'dead girl' in the teaser trailer. This includes face paints, eye shadows, moulding wax, fake blood, the tools needed to apply these and finally the white contact lenses.

The inspiration for this make-up comes from looking at other 'evil girl' characters, in films such as 'The Ring', 'Shutter' and 'The Abandoned', shown in the blog post below.

Again inspired by some of the most successful horror films of the past decade,  this is the completed costume. These were made by being stained in red (and other tones of) face paints representing blood, ripped up, burnt and stretched to create a trashed and old quality.

                                                                                                                              

Character Research and Inspiration (Villain)

Further Make-Up Trials/Poster Ideas

After further make-up trials and edited photographs, this is the sort of result we are getting, could be a possible poster idea? Although we acknowledge that this has been done alot already in the past, so for the first try it is a good result, however we will continue to develop ideas and create an original film poster for our teaser trailer...

Further Make-Up Trials

We have experimented further with what we can create with the make-up kit and this is what we came out with...

We have been continually adding to our narrative, and thought it possible if the girl in our teaser were to have been hanged or have had her throat slashed, and this gash on her throat are the marks left. Since this is only a trial, I think next time it would have been better if the blood had been darker since the girl will have been dead for some time and her skin would need to be alot white and paler.

Child Evil - Research

Since deciding on creating a teaser trailer for the sub-genre of child evil, research was needed to determine a believable child character similar to those in the films below.

A key element was to decide if we were going to cast a young boy or a young girl, therefore we've looked into both genders to establish our decision.

Child evil: The Victims

In more detail, this slide concentrates on the possession of Aiden's mind in 'The Ring Two' as Samara's victim...

And now the mind possession of Emily in Hide and Seek:

Child evil: The Villains

There is a difference between those children who are possessed to be evil and those who are naturally born to be.

These are a few more child evil horror films that we could look into:

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So... What is horror?

Horror, the most unsettling of film genres, is designed not only to frighten and panic, but to evoke our worst, hidden fears.
Horror films captivate and alarm the audience by creating and stimulating fears such as: Nightmares, vulnerability, alienation, the unknown, death, loss of identity/dignity.

In terms of the characters and plot of a horror film:

- The protagonist is usually the survivor of the film

- The source of evil (killer/demon) often has a trademark in the way they act, eg. the weapon they use to kill

- It is usually 'good' against 'evil' (Levi Strauss' Binary Opposition), and the audience follows the 'good' side.

- The outcome is the 'good' side wins/survives and a new state of equilibrium between the characters is formed.

What horror films are there?

The Grudge, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, The Ring, Psycho, Saw, The Shining, The Strangers, The Exorcist, Dawn of the Dead

These films are very influential in the horror world and will act as inspiration for our teaser trailer. We will not only be producing detailed deconstructions of these films as examples of narrative, but their teaser trailers in order to construct our own.

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