Finalizing Our Main Character's Appearance

Today was the day that we filmed all of the parts for our film opening that mainly consisted of the scenes with our main character, Lucy Thomas, in them. This is the final outfit that we decided on for our actress, Valentina Suarez, to wear while she portrayed Lucy. Moreover, looking back at previous blog posts we remembered that we wanted to portray Lucy as having a similar dressing style as one of the main characters from the film Mean Girls (2004). Therefore, my partner and I decided on Valentina's outfit as the following: black Tori Burch flats, a black, flared tennis skirt, a light pink blouse, and a bright pink, small sweater.

As for the makeup and hair portion of her appearance in these scenes of our film opening, we went for the natural, subtle look that we mentioned in previous blog posts. Furthermore, the components of our actress's makeup for the first scenes of our opening we utilized mascara, a touch of bronzer and blush, and a subtle lipgloss. As for her hair, we kept it in it's natural state, which is her straight hair.

In the image above is the palette that my partner and I utilized to achieve our possessed makeup look

for Lucy when she answers her cell phone and ends up suffering the deadly consequences. Moreover, the palette is the James Charles makeup palette, and we only used the black and burgundy shade from the makeup palette. 

In the above image is the final result of what my partner and I were able to achieve for the under eye makeup that we did in order to portray the possession that was occurring in the last few scenes of our film opening. Also, we did look back in our previous blogposts to find the inspiration photo we had in mind, which was from one of the actresses of a TV series names The Vampire Diaries.

So, we first started by placing the burgundy shade from the James Charles makeup Palette (which is also shown in the images above) in the under eye region just to create a red undertone to go under the black that we were soon going to be placing there. This, burgundy under her eye also gave the effect of looking as if she was bruised, ultimately adding to the possessed look.

Then, this is where my partner and I decided to go in with the black shade on top of the red, burgundy shade that we had previously applied. Moreover, we didn't think the black was very noticeable so we ended up adding more black under the eyes to make the possession look more realistic, and this addition of more black can be seen in the image below.

So here is where we stopped adding the black because we thought it was noticeable enough to look realistic; however, we didn't like the splotchy look of the eyeshadow against our actress's skin. Therefore we decided to go in with a tissue to make the blackness look more distributed under our actress's eyes, which can be seen in the below image.

Here you can take notice of the tissue and how my partner and I were able to get rid of the splotchiness the black shadow had initially created when we applied it under the eyes of our actress.

In the video above, you can take notice of the process that my partner and I did with creating the veins underneath our actress's eyes to really execute the possessed look we were going for. We used a black, liquid eyeliner to recreate the look of veins under the eyes.

Moving on, in order to take this possessed makeup look to the next level my partner and I had planned on using intense, red colored contacts that my partner was going to get in Miami, but she ended up just ordering them online through Amazon; however, Amazon had unfortunately damaged our order, which meant that we weren't getting the red colored contacts we had ordered.

This problem really hit us hard because we now had to find another way to make our main character, Lucy, really look as if she had become possessed. Therefore, my partner came up with the genius idea of using a snapchat filter to mimic the look of red colored contacts, which would successfully ended up taking our makeup look to the next level by making it look like Lucy really had become possessed. Located below is the video clip that my partner and I ended up using in our film opening for the very last scene.