writting essays...

for my development research im writing a piece on the walking dead and i happened to have stumbled across something that could benefit anyone in this area of research...

its the makeup artists from the walking dead season 1 showing you how they make a 'generic halloween zombie'

ENJOY! i know ive learnt a few new tricks now specially with oats and mixing different materials.

30 seconds development piece for DCP

This was quite challenging in the aspect of selecting the pieces of clip that fitted with the music. I sampled 30seconds of music from a piece of music i quite liked as the piece im using is in the process of being created/composed for my final 3-6min piece.

I felt this was good to do in ways that helped me get ideas from my head onto paper onto film edited up for a trial run... I feel im getting more attached with the makeup and using it well.

This also featured home made blood mixed with Golden Syrup and water colour controlled with red, green and blue food colouring. My actor said it was rather sticky and when the wind hit it began to harden on his skin. But it really pulled off the effect of blood as well as it being edible for the shot where my actor 'coughs up blood'

In all i think i know what i need to perfect as i wear glasses and my vision isnt 20/20 i found it quite hard to figure out on a 3inch screen on the back of the Nikon D3100 cameras with a basic lens was quite difficult for me to see if the footage was in focus... so i had to dabble about to find the best settings that suited me. Other than that i would be happy to use a dslr as a video camera again for something like this... maybe even stabilise the footage or use some sort of steadicam rig.

All youtube'd out!

These were some of the Trial Videos from the 2nd shoot i did with a different 'talent' who fitted more what id expect to see in a zombie apocalyptic world... I feel this really helped explore the whole depth of my concept bringing life to what a few weeks ago was just in my head.

Shoot with Jamie

This was a trial shoot with Jamie Greenwood as my over actress couldnt follow direction i felt i needed something more stabble for a video test.

Talk of Music

I was talking with my Supervisor Danny about how id want the video to come across with a more surreal feel to it all as if theres no hope left from humanity to save the Existence of man kind.

Luckily i posted about my blog on facebook and one of my friends got back to me with a link to this video and im set on using a piece of music from a friend willing to make... soft with emotion evoked from the piece.

I feel this would create such a difference in contrast.

Using the term 'Juxtaposition' meaning - verb (used with object), -posed, -pos·ing.

to place close together or side by side, especially for comparisonor contrast.

Location Scouting with Film Look...

These are a few of the locations i have come across in the Sheffield Area luckily close to where i live.

Still need to search for a more destroyed part of the city to shoot a big scene with Zombie Extras..

Experimenting with Gelatine in a trial shoot/location scout

As promised i said i would experiment with 'Gelatine' its quite a versatile material but i found it quite easy to peal off with facial movement... i can see why they use it for more of a bruise/burn victim rather than zombie... although zombie flesh can look quite good in this material.

These are a few shots from my test shoot for you to see in full HD showing of the Versatile material Gelatine while applied to my test subject.

Halloween

For halloween i got asked by my friend Natalie Grove if i would do her prosthetic makeup for her to go out on a night out, i took this time as a time to perfect my prosthetic application with a quick 5 minute job.

I thought first as to what she would be wearing. She then told me that she was going to be wearing a dress with an open neck... so i wanted to expose the collar bone and the side of the head as if something has attacked her from behind and severed her neck/collar area.

Im finally starting to get grasp with the feel of this material.

I will attempt to use gelatine on my test shoot as its a more versatile material normally used for burns.

Blood stains!!!

These were the final looks that i got from my first shoot after abit of a tweak.. with colours.

I think if im going to continue with the prosthetic pieces i need to be able to blend a little bit better. But for now as a first go, i thought it was really well executed.

Will be learning how to blend more with colours.

First attempt at applying

This was my first attempt at applying liquid latex directly to skin... on a willing victim!

She stated that it was tight around the movement joints but i think thats because for the stability of the pieces i added soaked up cotten wool in liquid latex with thin layers of tissues.

I personally think it went quite well