Make-up/SFX

(Stereotypes, changes, thoughts, ideas)

LIPS
Lips are going to be the most vibrant part of our vampire make-up. Red is the most common and preferable color to represent a women vampire. We are using this stereotype of a women vampire with a darker, deeper red. We want our actor to preferably have naturally plump lips as we are using them to show the energy and life in her, as she isnt showing life in any other aspect of costume or make-up. We want a very dark red to represent her seductive and dark personality before she has turned into her vampire form. This is our discrete enigma/ signier that it is fate for her to become a vampire and it is indeed the light at the end of the tunnel for her to get out of her deep place that she is trapped in as a human

TEETH
Mostly commonly vampires have normal teeth, except very long, sharp upper canines. Dracula had fangs because he was also a high level sorcerer in addition to being a vampire and could alter his physical form. His fame has given rise to the stereotype of fangs. We want our vampire to be linked way back to the time of Nosferatu (1922) Nosferatu resembled prominent rat-like incisor fangs. Again, we wanted to defy the convention of a typical modern day vampire. Having our fangs from canine to canine was progressed from the image of many animalistic creatures. Firstly the image of sharks, blood thirsty with every tooth pointed to sharpest it can be ready to pierce through skin. We also wanted to adapt the idea of a snake, as we see them to be very relevant to a vampire. When they are catching their prey they have two very long fangs that come out to insert venom into the skin. Just like a snake, vampires would be predators if it came to the animal world. They are similar in the sense that when our vampire/ a lot of other vampires bite, the human transforms due to the venom that that consumes/takes over their body.

We thought that this would be more disturbing and shocking for the audience, as well as intriguing. It would be the unknown to many people who see vampires as having two fangs, which will draw them in even more because it is new and exciting. We want to present our vampire like this because of the relation between vampires being animalistic, beastly and very sexualized.

Mostly normal

teeth, except

EYES
We want simply to make Amelia look like an obvious prostitute. Her eyes will be a key part of this. We want to reect her mystery and edge through her heavy eye-liner and the prominent black color. Our woman vampire will begin with a very overwhelming and fairly cheaply feminine image. She will be quite harsh and underprivileged. When she is a vampire, she is represented as more sophisticated. Her costume is smarter and her make-up is going to be neat, tidy, still with the same make-up just to be seen in a more classy light.

Our aim is to defy the codes and conventions of vampires. Through brainstorming the codes and conventions in lessons we decided on which conventions we are going to cut and keep and further created our own convention of crying blood. We wanted to take away the stereotypical sense of a vampire as we felt many would create that image and we wanted to be able to broaden the message we give to the audience, concentrating on other themes without the limelight being on the typical image of a vampire. We had the initial idea that in our lm the vampires can turn their emotions off, however Amelia does not want to as she does not want to lose her humanity. Daniel, her donor/ villain justies him turning her by explaining the fact that he watched her in pain in her human life. The ides of her drinking blood is that the blood she drinks takes away her previous pain, brings her alive again and she cries blood to release the pain of the people she bite

CONTACTS
We found our inspiration for this element of our make-up from being human. We wanted to get across the point that vampires are imperfect, they are dark and menacing creatures and have animalistic characteristics. The eyes portray the mysterious atmosphere we want to create for the opening. We want the sense that they are watching you and you are oblivious to this. Their eyes reect the deep emotions that they have experienced throughout their human life and looking into their eyes there is a thousand stories to be told. They link to the other themes of our movie such as Amelias dysfunctional lifestyle and the fact that she has had a troubled past and Daniel nds her in her upmost darkest place.

INFINITY TATTOO
The tattoo on the back of Amelias neck simply symbolizes the idea of the eternal life of a vampire. This is a further enigma code to show that her fate was sealed for her before she even knew it. She got this tattoo the day she ran away from home when she was 16. Amelia has one other tattoo of a portrait of a man, who was like a father gure to her when she became homeless and a prostitute. He saved her many times from recklessly ending her life and guided her through the beginning of her rough journey. He had to go away for good as he had a family of his own. Amelia took the liberty of tattooing herself with his face on her arm as she felt that he was her guardian angel and he will always be with her in spirit. This is classed as make-up because we are using a black marker pen to draw the tattoo onto Nausicaas skin instead of buying one online. We found that all of the tattoos researched were very modern and adapted with writing or altered shape. What we wanted was a plain black symbol and for it to be fairly harsh, yet beautiful on her skin.