Forever Beauty Queen: 2014

Monday 5 May 2014

Evaluation

For this unit, make up in motion that i have learned a lot new skills for creating a Gothic horror look.

although my whole outcomes, it went quite success.but through the design progress i do stuck sometime.

for example when i try to creating miss Havisham make up, because she is a old lady, i was tried a lots times to get her skin tone right and the winkle on her face and shading, the final look wasn't that bad, if i recreate her make again i will created more detail on her face, like the eye make up, also i have to create a wig for my character, because my model she got short hair, cant do nothing much on her hair, so i designed a wig, i thought it gone be hard for me to create a wig, but when i coming cross to create the wig, it went quite well, is a challenge for me, am quite impress, i think my Estella went really good, the out come am really happy with it.when i coming cross design Claudia and Quentin , i really enjoyed,and the outcome looks quite well, but i will do more research and pick up more idea of Gothic elements if i create those two characters again.

Final look of Quentin

for Quentin's hair style, i simply create side parted, a similar horsing shape.

Design of Quentin

first look of Quentin, from all my research of Quentin, he is a weak man, so i want his look more depressing, and dark, so i designed bold black eyebrows, and black eye liner, grey smokey eyes, and natural lips, contorting.

here is the trail of my design

my second look as i will use for my final look.from the first look, i think the feature is not strong enough, i used more stronger eye shadow, grey eye shadow as the base, black eye shadow to create the cat eye look, very strong contorting, light brown lips,pale skin..

Claudia final look

for her hair, i think just let it her down, just back comb the front section, and clip in the hair decoration,to give the secret,sexy,and creep look

Design of Claudia

my first design i created a simple Gothic look,smokey eyes, bold eyeliner, and bold lips. create a sexiness look.

here is my trail look for my first look

second design

for my second look. consider that first look is not creep enough,because Claudia is very strong Gothic character, so i designed a bold eye look, black eyebrows, and black eyeliner under her eyes, and the green part eye shadow, most of the horror film are used green colour in the screen. so i think the green will suit her look, and bold dark red lips,and strong contouring.

i will use this design for my final look

inspiration of Quentin

he is victim of Claudia, he is weak under the power of dominant Claudia,i will create Quentin to look weak and pale,mysterious,smokey eyes, dark eyebrows, with heave contouring.

inspiration of caludia

i have developed enough information to create my character Claudia,she is a strong and dominant woman,she is cool she is loving towards Quentin,she has the traits a psychopath.for my design i would like to follow the dark eyes, the bold eye liner, pale skin.

Research - Music Videos

This song is about being stuck in a flagging relationship may not tread any new lyrical ground,describing the song as a thoughtful, hurt sort of a song,this musical have lots Gothic elements,the romance of blood rose,the smoky eyes of pretty reckless,red lip, pale skin,the depressing emotion.

the dope show came at a point in the history of marilyn manson which saw the band shedding the dark,the song is a statement the altering of news by the mass media,rather than directly referring do drug usage in general,is the show of what the media presents to the word,however,that which is shown is not the trust, the video is even more instrumental in expressing this ides, in that manson is changed from a sexless, formless being into that which the media would like him to be,since the whole pop star irony is a central theme to mechanical animals.

fantastic baby, from Korean pop music band,i think there are lots elements in this music,smoky eyes,pale skin, skill hair.

Monday 28 April 2014

Gothic horror

Gothic horror
Gothic horror is a genre of literature that has elements of both romance and horror. Although it is sometimes confused with paranormal romance, according to some horror writers, gothic horror is considered a more atmospheric type of literature.

“The traditional gothic novel starred a young, usually very naïve woman who is mesmerized by a dark, handsome man with a shrouded past. The plots vary from that point, but the classic example is Rebecca by Dame Daphne du Maurier,” said Lynn Stranathan, co-owner of Yard Dog press. “Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is another good example as is her sister’s much darker Wuthering Heights.”

The Importance of Setting in Gothic Horror

According to some writers, the setting of the gothic horror almost becomes another character.

“Gothic horror is dark, stormy full of eerie winds. Set in old mansion or castles on high cliffs,” Said Gloria Oliver, author of Willing Sacrifice. “(There are) 18th and 19th century settings. Something old or feeling of antiquity needs to be involved. Vampires tend themselves to gothic horror, that influx of antiquity with aristocracy. I guess almost like blueblood horror.”

Gothic Horror Verses Paranormal Romance

Richard Dansky, artist and author of Firefly Rain, said that the difference between Gothic Horror and Paranormal Romance is in the results.

“The gothic builds up the protagonist until he achieves what he's after, and then details the terrible consequences of achieving it. This sits in contrast to paranormal romance, wherein the main character generally seems to be rewarded for achieving (or dating) the forbidden.”

Dansky said that the gothic is also generally associated with excess, and in the original was extremely gory and explicit for its time. There was a strong connection to the lurid anti-Catholic publications of the time, as demonstrated by The Monk and the details of "The Spaniard's Tale" in Melmoth. Love affairs in gothics were generally doomed to end horribly – witness Maturin's loving couple who ended up cannibalizing each other, or Victor and Elizabeth in Frankenstein. At the same time, lustful, forbidden, seductive or forced relationships.

“Really, the gothic was in many ways defined by over-the-top, and included sex, rape, murder, cannibalism, Satanism, and all sorts of debauchery,” Dansky said.

Confusion Between Paranormal Romance and Gothic Horror

According to Brad Sinor, journalist and writer of short horror stories, the confusion between paranormal romance and gothic horror comes from the gothic literature of the sixties.

“Gothic horror actually consisted of novels and shorter work likeDracula, Frankenstein, Camilla and Varney the Vampire,” Sinor said. “There was always a subtext of forbidden sex and stepping outside the accepted way things were done in the Victorian era into the dark shadows that surrounded even the industrial age. Gothic horror actually can trace its roots even further back into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

According to Sinor, The traditional sixties gothic novel had a direct connection to science fiction. Donald A Wolheim, then an editor at ACE books, looked at the sales figures of the gothic romances that they were publishing. He noticed that the ones that sold better always had a woman running away from a brooding house with a single light on it. Within a year or so all of the books in that genre had covers like that.

“Paranormal romance on the other hand didn't really get going until a few years ago,” Sinor said. “It had its roots in urban fantasy novels such as the ones written by Charles de Lint, Emma Bull and even Mercedes Lackey. In fact many paranormal romance writers say that they aren't writing romance they are writing urban fantasy.”

Examples of Gothic Horror Authors

Unlike modern urban fantasy like the Anita Blake and Sookie Stackhouse series, Gothic Horror still draws its horror from the environment around it. Examples include Edward Lee, Cailin R Kiernan, H. P. Lovecraft, Brian Keene and Karl Edward Wagner, C.R. Maturin Elizabeth Kostova