Claudia Final Look.

Here are some images from my final look for Claudia.

Gothic horror moodboard.

Quentin

• Quentin:

  After choosing the film to base the looks and researching Claudia, i had a few ideas of how i would want my Quentin to look. My first was inspired from the film 'May.' In this she makes her own boyfriend out of other people. So my first idea would be that Quentin would have stitches going across his face to represent Claudia sewing him together to make her perfect boyfriend. I then remembered that he is imaginary. And i thought, if Claudia is imagining her 'perfect' boyfriend. He would be perfect, no this sewn together man with blood and stitches going across his face. She would imagine him to look completely normal.

  I think Quentin would also be 'socially normal' looking because she is desperate to find love and human connection - and what is portrayed as being normal and accepted is to be in a loving, successful relationship with a boyfriend. So she feels like this will help her to feel better about herself, less like the odd one out, and give her a sense of purpose - which will inevitably help her to feel comfortable leaving her house.

  I then thought about what i've talked about before about how the horror films would effect the way she is with Quentin. If she is constantly watching people getting chopped up or beaten of locked away. She would begin to think this is normal and do it to Quentin. I imagined Quentin looking normal, but looking tired, slightly beaten and dirty from being trapped in Claudia's Imagination for too long. I then thought about how to make this look contemporay for a music video as i didnt want to just create bruising and tiredness i want it to fit in with the theme of the video.

  
  

  Pinterest mood board for Quentin: http://www.pinterest.com/lailahamidi/quentin/

  Storyboard for Quentin:

  

  
  

  (My Quentin model also has a beard.)

  
  

  Face charts:

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   This first face chart is keeping it simple, as if she was imagining him he would be her idea of perfect.
  
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   This face chart has some lines going across the face which would represent him being sewn together subtly.
  
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   This face chart is very simple again, but with some black liner under the eyes, showing Quentin's dark side/ Claudia's dark side as its her imagination.
  
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  This final face chart is to show the months of being locked away and possibly beaten by claudia, without using a bruise wheel and making it too theatrical.Also to show the dark gothic horror side they both share. I have used black to spread over the eyes, also i like that you can still see the brush strokes as it in keeps with Claudia's paint like feel. I would also apply red liner in the eyes to make them pop out a bit more.

  
  

  Quentin's hair:
  

  Quentin's hair would be very short and tamed. Although he is a prisoner to Claudia, i feel like there are aspects of his appearance she would maintain in her head and the hair would be one of them. I imagine it to be a typical 'man' hairstyle with shaved at the side and longer on the top. This is a very popular hairstyle these days so it would work being in a current music video.

  
  

  

  
  

  Quentin's style: I think Quentin would dress very 'Indie' and festival like. He would be quite scruffy but it would suit his overall appearance and personality. I feel like he would wear colour, whereas Claudia would only wear black. His clothes would look dirty and worn, where Claudia would always seem to have more pride in her appearance. Maybe because she is craving acceptance from everyone and thinks the only way to get it is by her looks. Also if Quentin is seen to be the messy scruffy one, she might think this would help with that too.
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  

  
  

Other face charts and experiments for Claudia.

Here are some other face charts and experimentation before i came to my final design.

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Claudia

Claudia.

I have made a pinterest mood board for ideas for 'my Claudia'

http://www.pinterest.com/lailahamidi/claudia/

• Make up:
  After deciding to use the film 'May' as my inspiration, and Claudia being inspired by the doll as she finds it more relatable, i started looking into how i could use this in my make up look. I would want the make up too look doll like in a contemporary, not theatrical way. I started too look at images on Pinterest and looked at images of make up that looked paint like. As the doll would have been painted so i would want the make up too mimic that and look like paint.
  Here is a storyboard for Claudia's make up look.
  

  

  After speaking with Lottie she told me that i should use aqua colour to get a paint effect so i made some face charts and experimented to come up with my final design.
  
  Face charts:
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  After experimenting with this design i really didn't like it. I choose to use these colours because dolls are usually made up from white for the skin, pink cheeks. reds lips, then black mascara. I thought the whole thing was to over the top and theatrical. I decided to try and bring it down a level to try and skin tone base instead of a white base.

  
  

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  Experimentation of this design:

  
  

  

  
  

  

  After experiementing this design, i definetly feel like this is an imporvement on the first one. The normal skin colour base defientely brings it more into the contemproay music video feel.

  
  

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  Experimentation of this design: 

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  After doing this face chart i still wasn't happy with the look at all. I had originally chose to use white, black, pink and red, due to conceptual consideration for my look. As most dolls you see, have a white face, pink cheeks and red lips. But through practices of working with the materials and colours of this look, i found that the look wasn't what i wanted. I didn't think all the colours worked well together.
  So i decided to then experiment with other colours and chose to use blue, white black and gold. Because i understand that the aesthetic of the look is very important and i didn't feel the original colours blended together and complimented the look (regardless of their more direct links to my concept) so i adapted it. Which i feel adds a more contemporary feel too - as i'm not just coping the same old doll look that has been used in horror films in the past.
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  Experimentation of this design:
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  I feel like the colour of this design work a lot better. However there are still a couple things i would tweak like the line under the eyes and the gold on the lip so i made one final face chart. 
  
  
  

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  Hair:

  As this task was to be influenced and inspired by a chosen horror film, and the look produced is for a music video, i'm aware that the 'live' element is very important in how im thinking about constructing my design. Because i am working with moving image, rather than a still/stationary image on a magazine cover for example, I became aware that the look needs to contain more than something that is just visually pleasing. When thinking about how other senses are considered when producing moving image, i recognised that sound is a huge part of it (horror films using sound to create suspense etc) so i want my look to contain auditory elements as well. After Seema's lessons where we were showed how to slick and smooth the hair i wanted to use these techniques in my hair look. I want a high slick pony tail pulling the hair all off the face. But i want it to contain metal, so it would stand up higher. The metal would also be the 'sound' element of the design, as when she would move around it would clang and scrape together.
  
  I found the metal rings in b and q: 
  
  

  

  
  
  Here is a storyboard of Claudia's hair look:
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  Experimentation of my hair design:
  

  

  
  Props:
  
  Nails and hands: I would Claudia's hands to be dirty and look they have 'paint' on the from getting herself ready. I also want them to have long nails of bits of metal or wood attached to them to symbolise that she hurts everything that she touches. And to give a more horror appearance to them.
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  Styling: I want Claudia to be wearing black. At first i wanted something with big structured shoulders to show her power in her relationship. But then after thinking more about it i thought, with the strong hair, make up look and the hands it might be a bit too much and i thought i would go for the opposite. Something more soft (still black) but to represent the act she is putting on with the hair and make up and the contrast between the too. Cause she is still just a young girl who wants to find love.
  
  

  

  

  Something like this, which is the complete opposite and contrasts, the strong hard metal in the hair, and the sharp wooden nails, to symbolise the girl she is underneath all the characters she creates.