Evaluation

Evaluation

The project theme this term was Gothic horror, I love horror so I was really excited to start. Having to choose and read a book was a good start to the project and I was really pleased with the book I had chosen and character I had picked (The strange case of Jekyll and Hyde, Jekyll and Hyde). I have also really enjoyed creating characters based on one of my favourite TV Series (American Horror Story).I loved learning special effects techniques and can’t wait to start this next year. Creating cuts/ burns/ wounds and old age skin was really interesting to learn and I feel a lot more confident going into next year knowing how to create little bits already. I have experienced what it would be like to create a continuity make-up, this is something I have never done before, I was really nervous about this as it was something new. This will help me a lot in the future as I want to be working behind film/TV and continuity is really important. I want to develop my overall special effects skills and would like to learn a lot more about creating wounds and using prosthetics. Looking at different make-up artists and how they have developed their skills over the years motivates me, especially   Ve Neill she has worked on so many big films, like Pirates of the Caribbean, Hunger Games, Thor, Sweeney Todd, The Grinch and many more. As she has worked on many different films I look into the make-up and try and find how she creates the make-up and what she uses for it. She has also won a lot of different awards; I aim to be as inspirational as she is to me some day. I enjoyed creating the wounds; I found it difficult blending the edges of the latex out to make it look realistic. I really enjoyed colour matching to the skin but I also think these are areas I need to work on. What I think was the most successful part of my project was the continuity make-up not only did I really enjoy doing it, I think I done really well at recreating the look. When creating the continuity make-up it was hard to decide to use the latex to create the old age look or go will just using shadows to create the wrinkles. I found it a problem choosing which to do but I had chosen to go with using the shadows as I believed this would be a better option for continuity as latex is sometimes unpredictable and I was not very confident using it. I also think my TV Series character Quentin’s images weren't what I wanted them to appear like as the scar I created using collodion was shiny in the images from the lights flashing off it. It affected my final images which I was hoping would turn out good but as it was shiny looking it didn't look realistic. I have learnt from this mistake to use translucent powder over the scar when doing anything like this again. I would make sure I time managed myself as I have not been very organized with my first year. I need to learn to manage my projects better for next year as I don’t want to be behind or stressed getting everything finished right at the end. I also think it is important to do more than one shoot for your final projects, if I had done this for my last project I would have realized my mistakes and had time to correct and re shoot them. Overall I have really enjoyed this year I am quite sad it over so quick but I am also really excited to start a new year doing something I know I will love.