Antagonists Make-up

I have used liquid latex on my antagonists face to make it believable that she has been ran over:


This picture shows the finished product.

I have used liquid latex to create an effect on the right side of the face. The effect is based on the idea that when the girl is ran over she would hit the pavement quite hard causing grazing on her face.

I chose to use liquid latex and make-up rather than just make-up alone because:

1) It makes the antagonist look scarier

2) You can save the original latex mould to be re-used which means I will easily be able to re-create the make-up.

Badly re-creating make-up can cause serious continuity problems in your film so by using liquid latex I am reducing the chance of this happening.

Animatic

I have made an animatic to show the time frames for each of my shots. Creating this animatic has helped me by making me re-think some of the durations of each shot. For example some of the reaction shots were too short and some shots were too long so they had to be either increased or cut down.

Things I will need

Any props I will need:

A Car (done)

Costumes:

Protagonist - Business suit e.g Jacket and pencil skirt (done)
Antagonist - Red hooded jacket with jeans (done)

Screenplay / script

Storyboards 21- 40

Storyboards 1 -20

Textual Analysis

The main focus of my film is a chase/escape sequence between my protagonist and antagonist so I have been looking at similar sequences from famous horror films to find effects I could use during the production of my own film.

The first sequence I looked at is from: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003, directed by Marcus Nispel.
In this sequence props are used to disorientate the character whilst he is trying to escape his attacker.

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The sheets often obscure the camera which is a very odd choice by the director but it successfully disorientates the audience which puts them in the place of the both the character and the attacker.

This particular chase sequence occurs during the day which is unusual for a horror film and therefore goes against typical horror conventions, normally the darkness/ lack of lighting would be used to isolate the character by limiting how much they can see. The sheets serve that purpose in this sequence showing that even by twisting typical conventions you can achieve the same effects and that when props are used well they can help achieve the desired response from your audience.