Evaluation

Over the entire Gothic Horror unit I found extremely fun and enjoyable as well as very challenging. I have never done anything to do with makeup before this course so coming into the first year not knowing anything to being able to create looks like the ones above I am extremely happy with myself and how much I have grown since being here and also starting the Gothic Horror unit.

My favorite part of this unit has to be learning the different special effects makeup techniques because I have always wanted to know how to do special effects makeup properly and the right way. I found it extremely interesting also learning about the history of Gothic Horror and how the horror films and books were made based on what was happening in real life, to scare people on their insecurities and fears of the real world.

In this unit we have focused on many different techniques of creating special effects in makeup and in hair, which I have talked about throughout my blog. Apart from the practical side to thing I have learnt a lot more about researching and the best ways to do this because last term I struggled with the research because I didn’t really understand how to use the research I had found I just put it on my blog I didn’t exactly use it. When I’m researching now I use it in my designs and outcomes which has helped me develop my ideas further, also learning the techniques from the practical lesson helped me explore the different ideas I could use in my final outcome. I ended up wanting to do all of my face charts because I just wanted to practice and practice everything I have learnt.

I would really like to practice my colouring more because I feel like on some of my practices I went too dark on a few things and would really like to put in some more practice over the summer to really get that spot on.

When researching about both units the first one I done on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the second one on Bate Motel. I looked into many books based on the era for the book, looking at fashion, hair and makeup. I also looked at many documentaries about the book and the author. I looked at a lot of the makeup artists that worked on the different versions of the films based on that book. For the Bates Motel I done a lot of research into the films that linked to it like Psycho but also into films which linked the characters in Bate Motel but also linked my character I made, the film that linked most was The Others.

They influenced my work quite a bit because then I used that information that I collected and made them into face and hair charts. As well as experimenting with ideas and seeing if they would work.

I really enjoyed teaching myself how to use the mirrored acrylic in the skin because in class we got taught how to create scares and cuts but not to have an object in the cut and to mold it in. At first I was pulling my hair out and thinking of why I decided to do something we weren’t taught to do but after a lot of practicing on myself and my model I managed to find a way how to make it work but it defiantly took some perseverance, but I extremely enjoyed teaching myself how to create the look.

I think the most successful part for this project has to be my continuity images as I think they are very similar and was very happy with my design work and the outcome was for both different times. The only thing that is slightly annoying is that the lighting was slightly different which makes the second time doing the makeup look like the makeup is slightly darker in the images.

I came across a lot of problems across this unit like I said about the acrylic mirror I used for my continuity exam was extremely difficult because I just couldn’t find a way for the piece too stick but I taught myself and used a few different products and it worked fine in the end. I also came across a few problems when trying to do the last images for my characters I had a few cancellations with models which meant I had to rebook the studio which was getting quite hard towards the end because they were so booked up but managed to do it in the end.

I think I learnt a lot from the problems I came across for example the continuity exam I think I learnt from that problem is too start practicing my final look a lot earlier than I did because if you need any other products that I forgot then I only had a few days to receive it and then practice again with the new products. I also need to start preparing back up models so that if one cancels at the last minuet I know that someone else could pop in at late notice and not have to cancel and waste time.

 I think If I had the chance to start over I would defiantly read a book and as I’m reading the book make a blog on it, instead of just writing down notes and the interesting parts and then coming back to it when I want to put it into a certain blog and not really remembering what the book was, which meant I couldn’t refer back to it and also struggled to put them in my bibliography because I couldn’t remember what books and articles I had read. I still fine the bibliography a big struggle and really need to get in the routine of putting everything in it straight away.