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.

Coming Up with our Movie Title

We have been thinking about our film title and we have been researching names of scary movies and we have found a constant pattern that most horror movies share. This pattern is having one or two words as the movie title; therefore, making them short and to the point. Some examples are "It", "Us", "Get Out", "The Nun", "Sinister", "Insidious", etc. Thus, since our film opening is based on mass-suicides caused by individuals picking up their phones to receive a call, we came up with the film title "The Call".

My partner and I found a very useful website that helped us come down to two fonts for our film title. The link to the website is the following: https://www.font-generator.com/.

The image above is the first option that we have for our film title for our film opening. Moreover, the difference between this font option and the option below is the unique characteristic with the letter "T", and the fact that all the letters are the same size and capitol (except for the letter "h"). Furthermore, my parter and I really like this one mainly because of the distinctness it has due to the unique letter "T". Thus, this would essentially be helpful in helping viewers distinguish our film with others. 

The image above is the second option we have in mind for our film title. Moreover, with this film title there are certain elements that catch our attention as well. For example, we like the inspiration it draws from extremely successful films such as The Conjuring and The Nun because it proves to us that these fonts do indeed work with the general target audience of those individuals in the horror genre group. Thus, by giving them a font that they are able to associate with an already popular film, they are able to create high expectations for our film when they watch it. Furthermore, we also liked the combination of several sizes utilized when creating the font as well as the use of all capitol letters because it adds to the creepy/disturbing vibes, which are transmitted through the film opening that basically set up the tone of the whole film. 

In the end, my partner and I decided on using the second option mainly because of the close resemblance it had with the movie font of already successful horror movies such as The Conjuring and because of the unusual and eerie vibes it gives off. Thus, we went a step further to customize the font that we selected. This can be seen in the below image. 

In the image above you are able to notice two main things: the black background change and the red text color change. So, we ended up changing the white background to black so that it would blend in with the black screen of the ending scene of our film opening immediately following the close up of Lucy's now red-colored eyes. Furthermore, we also changed the white font color to a red font color because it matches the previous scene showing Lucy's eyes change colors dramatically from a calm, blue color to an intense, red one. Also, the reasoning behind using a red font for our film title is because of the fact that the color red can be associated with death and blood; thus, the use of the color red in our title that appears right after the close-up of Lucy's red eyes helps lead viewers to the idea that Lucy suffered the deadly consequence of answering her phone, which was death of course. Also, the red that we used is not a bright red, but instead it is a deep, blood-like, intense red. Thus, this helps capture the terrifying and disturbing horror genre vibes that our film opening is all about.