Miss Havisham: Continuity Assessment

Design and Notes:

                             

Design Process:
Make-up:

Products-

• Charles fox foundation palette
• Illamasqua white base foundation 
• Charles Fox  supra colour palette (bright red, dark red, black, purple, yellow and white)
• latex
• Scabby Blood
• Charles fox blusher palette
• Illamasqua loose powder
• Charles Fox eye shadow palette (brown)
• Vaseline 
• Illamasqua primer

1. I started with the base of the skin which firstly I wanted the burn on the clean skin first and then to add the rest of the products on top. I applied around 4 layers of latex on the skin and used a hair dryer in between layers to dry it quicker. I then picked at the latex to lift some off the face where there would be a whole so I could fill this are with blood.
2.   Once dry I then started on the foundation, I used a mixture of the Charles fox foundation and the white base foundation to lighten the skin and give a good coverage (application over lips as well).
3.  Once the foundation was applied I powder the face with the loose powder to set the make-up ready for the applied of the wrinkle lines. Once the powder was applied I used the brown shade from the Charles Fox eye shadow palette and created lines on the forehead, slightly around the nose, the chin and the smile lines. 
4. Next I applied a red powder (from the Charles Fox blusher palette) and using a blusher brush went around the eyes with the red so the red was equally under and above the eye. 
5. Next I starting working into the burn, which I applied red, black, purple and yellow supra colour over the area which I applied latex. Next I used the bloody scab (which is a thick form of blood and sets hard) and filled in the two holes I create on the top and bottom burn. I then applied Vaseline over the top and this allowed the colours to mix slightly to blend together and give that wet fresh burn look.
6. Finally was the eyebrows and lashes. Since Miss Havisham was old I wanted her lashes and brows to fit the character so I mixed white supra colour with a small amount of yellow onto my hand. I then used a mascara wand to coat it in the supra colour and brush through the brows and applied on the eyelashes. 

Close of the burns, different angles 

Template size for the burns for Continuity 

Hair:

Equipment and Extras-

• Small curling tongs
• Comb
• Brush
• hairspray 
• White coloured hairspray 
• dead Flowers
• Veil
• Grips
• cape

1. I started with sectioning the hair into the areas that I needed each part to be. starting with creating a middle parting, then parting the fringe from he back of the head this section is down in line with the ear. I then took the back part of the hair and but it into a ponytail just to keep it away from the rest of the hair.
2. I then grabbed my small curling tongs that I have previously plugged in and started curling the fringe into ringlets, I started on the right side sectioning the fringe into three. I then curled each section so there was three ringlets and then did this on the other side. 
3.  I then started on the back where I took the hair out of the ponytail ready for me to spray the hair white. I sectioned the hair bit by bit and sprayed while working my way up so the white was going through the hair in layers to look realistic. At the top I then spray the roots of the hair where the parting is.
4. I then grabbed my comb and started back combing the hair so it looks messy and matted at the back and then put the hair into a mid-high pony tail. I then grabbed a stand from the underneath of the pony tail as this will be wrapped round the hair. 
5. Next I held the ponytail and starting wrapping it round into a large bun while gripping each section down so it was held into place. I then used the plait that I previously made and wrapped it around the bun and gripped it into the side. 
6. I then had 5 flowers to place into the hair at the top, I wanted this to look realistic so I had real flowers from weeks before the assessment and left them to go old and matured, cut them off and used them in the hair. I placed them in using the stalk and pit it into the top of the bun.
7. I then had a lace veil which I bought and put grips through the top of the lace and gripped it underneath the bun. This sat half way up one side of the bun, to half way up the other side of the bun.
8. Finally I went back to the curls at the front of the hair, took individual strands from the front and sprayed it with the white colour hairspray and then slightly at the roots of the parting 

Veil

Hair parting from the top

Left side view of hair

right side of face/curls 

White coloured hair spray I used

Flowers that were put in the hair 

Preparations for Extras:

For the clothing and extras I used a white cotton fabric to wrap around my model and a white lace material as the veil. When I purchased these there were extremely white and clean however the character Miss Havisham hasn't washed or cleaned in multiple years and her house is filthy. Therefore the old bridal clothing she would be wearing would be an off white colour and probably have multiple stains, marks and rips in the veil. How I made the cotton and lace stained was I used a tea bag and put it in a tub of water and placed the materials in the water, this then gave the off white dirty colour. To add extra marks to the fabric I took the material out the water and rubbed the tea bag on the materials to mark it further in certain areas.

Tea bag on the cotton

Marking the lace with the tea bag

My understanding of continuity and its importance in TV and film industry:

Continuity is central to film and television work and it is up to all make-up artists to maintain continuity in their work. Film and television productions are usually shot out of sequence; that is, filming will jump from one scene to another, which may be either further on in the script or story or back near the beginning. This causes problems for the make-up and hair department, who have to ensure that the proformers' appearance:

• Meets the requirments of the script or story and of the design specifications for the production and achieves realism and credibility on camera 

• Is seamless from one scene to the next where the story timeline is continuous, and that the make-up and hair 'match' the preceding and folllowing shots.

Continuity is very important in TV and film because it creates realistic scenes that makes the make-up and hair flow between scene even if the scene is filmed on different days. 

How continuity can be recored in the tv and film industry:

• Take photos of the look
• write down notes 
• keep box/section that has all the make-up and hair products for each actor to know what products were used
• draw face charts and hair charts 

How I'm going to recreated my look-

• Created a hair chart and step by step instructions
• created a makeup chart and step by step instructions
• Create size templates for the burns so they can be the same size each time
• Took photos of the whole look I created, every parting, section and close up to each part of the face
• Kept a container of the flowers that were in the hair to reuse them 
• Kept the lace and material in a bag to reuse for continuity
• bought multiple cans of white hairspray so I can use the same product for continuity
• kept all products together that I used the first time around and also wrote a list of all the products I used

sourse of informations:
Book- Make-up artistry, for professional qualifications By Julia Conway