Make Up Ideas

In our film trailer, we are having a detective who is struggling to work out what happened from the case that he was assigned to solve, because of this he has developed a alcohol problem and has become very tired and stressed, this resulting in him looking very worn out.

To achieve the look that we require for our actor, we will be using dark make up around the eyes and underneath, with a hint of purple in the corner and under to show the bags under his eyes, which has resulted in the lack of sleep and stress, we will blend this in with a thin make up brush so it doesn't look as if we have put make up on. We will also "colour in" the actors wrinkles/ lines on his face to make them more exaggerated, as many people get wrinkles from the lack of sleep and stress.
As our actor has a pale complexion we are going to use a foundation that is lighter than his skin or a concealer on our actor to make him look very pale and worn out.

For the girls make up, we will be using two very different styles as we are having a personality change for the girl. The first style is sweet, natural and girly and the second style is Gothic/grunge. To portray this using make up we will use natural looking make up, with light pinks and rose colours to show her soft feminine side for the first style, to thick black eye liner and smoky eye make up for the second.

To achieve these looks I needed to research into the different styles, so that I could get an idea of what the make up would look like and how I would do it. below I have added a mood board that I created:

 Tutorial on how to achieve black Smokey eyes for our actress:

Mood Board - Costumes

The first mood board that I have created is showing the contrasting fashion that is commonly worn by girly girls and grunge/gothic girls. We have chosen to do this because our characters personality changes throughout the trailer from good to bad, so we want the clothes to reflect how she is feeling.

From this research we can see that girls with a girly/flirty personality would normally wear light pastel pinks/whites and converse.

The second mood board is showing all the different items of clothes that a police decetive would wear. We have included the sterotypical long brown trench coat with glasses and a hat. 

Dates available for filming 1 - Nicole, Kira and Chloe

I have created a filming schedule for when Kira, Chloe and I are able to film, we will then create another schedule that will include our actors and the dates that they are able to film for us. From this schedule we can see that the only three days that we are all free together is the 2nd/3rd January. We are all also free on Friday 10th January and Friday 17th January, however we all have school that day and will be unable to film during the day, also we want to try and finish filming over the Christmas holidays.

Filming Dates		Nicole	Kira	Chloe
Saturday	21 December 2013	X	X
Sunday	22 December 2013	X	X	X
Monday	23 December 2013		X	X
Tuesday	24 December 2013	X	X	X
Wednesday	25 December 2013	X	X	X
Thursday	26 December 2013	X	X	X
Friday	27 December 2013		X
Saturday	28 December 2013	X	X
Sunday	29 December 2013		X
Monday	30 December 2013			X
Tuesday	31 December 2013	X	X	X
Wednesday	01 January 2014	X	X	X
Thursday	02 January 2014
Friday	03 January 2014
Saturday	04 January 2014	X		X
Sunday	05 January 2014		X (can change if needed)
Monday	06 January 2014	(Cannot do 5:00-6:30)		X
Tuesday	07 January 2014	(Cannot do 5:30 - 9:30)	(Cannot do 7:30 - 8:30)	X
Wednesday	08 January 2014			X
Thursday	09 January 2014		(Cannot do 4:30 - 6:30)
Friday	10 January 2014
Saturday	11 January 2014	X
Sunday	12 January 2014		X (can change if needed)
Monday	13 January 2014	(Cannot do 5:00-6:30)		X
Tuesday	14 January 2014	(Cannot do 5:30 - 9:30)		X
Wednesday	15 January 2014		X
Thursday	16 January 2014		(Cannot do 4:30 - 6:30)
Friday	17 January 2014
Saturday	18 January 2014	X		X

Codes and Conventions of Film Posters

Test Shots

Here are some test shots we took after setting up the detectives office on location.

Location Setting 2

For our second location we required a kitchen/dinning room to be joined together so we could get the actress and actor to have there argument and also for the actress to take the plates back into the kitchen. For this we filmed in a small house that was situated in Harrow on the Hill, on the outskirts of London.

Below I have added some photos of the location that we choose to film our film trailer in.

Location Setting 1

For our film trailer we needed our location setting to be in small, cramped detectives office, that would also have enough room to fit in a bed, as the detective will not only be working in his office but also living in his office. As we were unable to find a location that suits the location setting needs, we decided to created our own office and decorate it the way we want/need. To do this we used a small room that was in the process of being decorated so that we could convert it into a living and working office the way require.

To do this we created a desk and then designed and laid out the objects that you would normally find in a detectives office and also any that we needed for the trailer, e.g. a computer, sheets of paper, evidence in bags, old stained coffee cups, dead plants, and mountains of paperwork. We either created these items, such as the work sheets and old cups of coffee or found items placed around the house.

This photo is showing the detectives desk with all the photo-
graphic evidence on and above the desk. 

The detectives unmade desk in the corner, with
dirty clothes thrown around the room.

High angle shot of the detectives desk, showing everything that
we have created to be put on the desk.

Close up shot of some of the objects placed on the
detectives desk.

Some of the Polaroid pictures showing the evidence. 

Old photo files and books gathering dust in the corner, next to
a week planner with the dates crossed out.

A side photo of the Polaroid pictures that we took and pinned
above the detectives desk.