Images from Practice Filming

Here is a collection of images from the first 'look' we created for our artist. It was a conceptual theme and and was made up with what we had! We used a basic make-up process.. foundation, blusher, etc... We found some sequins and thought we could place them on Claudia's face. We wasn't quite sure how to place them as we didn't want her to look silly or clown-like so we searched on Google for cool make-up using sequins... We found that our very own artist of our song 'Dillon' uses sequins for her make-up but in a more Gothic way. Her dark hair and black sequins create a more gloomy and mysterious look. Because the sequins we used were multi-coloured, the look we went for was more fun and 'pop'. Pixie Lott (above right) was a good image we found and could use for guidance. Once we saw this we knew what to do with the sequins. We added a silver glittery eyeliner for emphasis to the 'sparkle'. The hair was also quite random, obviously Miley Cyrus had her hair like this when she performed at the MTV Video Music Awards and brought it back from the 90's! And we thought with Claudia's long hair this would be and effective and eccentric look overall. 

These set of images show the outfit as well as the hair and make-up. We chose a white see-through dress and put black shorts and a silver sparkly bra underneath. We thought the sparkly bra would link in with the eyeliner and sequins and create an even more erratic look, making an original and unique artist - without being too GaGa! We decided that shooting in the garden would be effective... Especially when it came to background setting. With just the leaves (tree) as the backdrop, the focus is still on Claudia and her make-up without just having a plain and boring white or black background. We also thought the table and chair was quite practical because it gave Claudia something to do rather than just posing in all of the images... Which she does in some of them but they look fantastic. It enable the photographer (me) to really capture the makeup at the right angle with the correct lighting etc... Overall we really like this look and think we could create other ones similar to it, keeping a consistent look. however, we worry that it wouldn't fit in with the genre of the song and the lyrics. 

This last set of images show a range of other looks we tried  out. The wig being one of them, which even though looks quite cool and strange (what we was going for!!) we just didn't particularly like it. It was just a bit too GaGa! We also tried out the 'twiggy eyes' using a step by step tutorial and turned into more of a joke. The hair style along with that (bottom three images) we didn't like either - it was too childish, too unprofessional. The final look we went for was the 'depressed, psycho but still glamorous... with an edge'. The edge of the look is the dress - it's like a tut which gives an almost fairy tale feel and being set in the woods adds to the mystery. The glamour is shown through the blonde hair and big eyelashes and finally the more obvious is the depressed look, mascara run down her face, pale and run down. We really like this look because of the psychotic edge and I think it really links to the song and the lyrics - a mother depressed and longing for her child who is no longer existing.