Task 4 The Pitch- Stage Makeup for How To Kill a Dead Girl

Here are some images we took when practising the "stage makeup" for our film. 

For our opening scene, we needed to include bruises and blood as it is about an abusive relationship, without the bruises the scene would be less effective. Our opening scene involves our character lying on the floor, inferring that she is hurt/injured meaning that we would need to make it visible she had been in a violent situation, this is when we decided to use stage makeup to create bruises.   The bruises were also used in a bathroom scene where the character had  bruised shoulders to look as though someone has grabbed her from behind with force. Before we created the bruises we planned a test patch to check that she is not allergic to the fake blood/products that we used.

To create the bruises we used purple, blue, black and green powdered shadow and stage makeup. We started by adding blue patches and blending them out so that they did not look too obvious, we then added a purple shimmer over them and added black parts to the more hollow parts of her body to add emphasis.  We decided to keep the makeup as simple and subtle as possible as our opening scene aims to be quite realistic and emotional so that it has an effect on the audience, we aimed to keep it looking realistic and subtle. The conventions of a thriller generally are very ambiguous and subtle, therefore if the bruises were too obvious it would be too much like a horror.