At this stage of the project we have been given a lot more freedom to create our own characterisation within the brief. Rather than with characters from great expectation which was quite strict with what we could and couldn't do. Also with this section we had the advantage that we had learnt a lot already from our great expectation brief, the techniques and a lot of ideas from the T.V series, film, gothic horror text and general historical references which could defiantly influence our ideas and designs of Claudia and quentin. as i have learnt throughout this project a lot of the work when creating deigns is characterisation. so when creating my designs for Claudia and quentin I really looked into the brief itself a lot more than admittedly i had in the past. The obvious part of the brief that is important to this was the character profiles.
Claudia
Claudia is a girl in her twenties. As a child she was left alone to develop with little parental guidance and through her relationship with T.V. movies developed an unhealthy relationship with Horror films, believing this to be the way life really is.
All the scenes take place in various parts of Claudia’s apartment, She is agoraphobic and is kept in touch with the outside world by her neighbours who provide her with her every day requirements. She models herself on a variety of girls often twisting her look to suit whichever film she is watching at the time and there is often a nod to the main character in the current film within her appearance.
The script portrays her as psychotic and there is always the feeling that although her character is scripted/can be seen as humorous, danger is just around the corner. However all this is normal to Claudia and she is of a cheerful disposition in this mad world of hers.
Quentin
Claudia has an imaginary boyfriend, Quentin, who is long suffering and a constant disappointment to her. They don’t live together but he visits regularly and they talk on the telephone if he can’t get in to see her. As he is part of her imagination his appearance changes to suit her mood.
He is as into the horror film genre as she and into role-playing to suit her whims and moods.
Claudia has a paranoid suspicion that he is constantly having affairs behind her back and keeps him firmly under her thumb, sometimes restraining him or keeping him prisoner in one of the rooms.
whilst creating MY interpretation of Claudia i thought that in my version her appearance wouldn't reflect exactly the show or film that she was watching at the time, but instead she would dress the way her emotions provoked her to and it would reference elements that she had seen in gothic horror. From this idea i brain stormed different emotions and how she might relate them to gothic horror characters or themes and how she may then interpret that into her make-up and clothing decisions. as quentin is a figment of Claudia's imagination i think that his appearance would also make sense to reflect her mood, therefore they're appearance might match, in the same theme coming from different gothic horror inspirations.
inspiration for face charts for Claudia:
JOYFUL CLAUDIA AND QUENTIN
i thought that when she is in a playful happy mood she might reflect the sense of the creepy clown often featured in gothic horror. looking into this idea i came across some beautiful clown interpretations done by Natasha Lilipore. this then led me to think about what kind of clown she would make herself into. what is her interpretation of beautiful? Natasha as a make-up artist has clearly thought through this process herself as there is three different types she seems to take on. the middle one being a very modern interpretation which is actually still very stunning, the right being very artistic and more of a body paint. The left is actually my favourite and i think the most appropriate take on the clown for Claudia as its not typically beautiful and its not a straight copy of any clown but quite distressed and fun, with the sleigh creepiness that gothic horror brings.
this is a very fashion interpretation though and to gather other research i looked int o gothic horror doll's which brought me to those famous big creepy eyes so twisting the left image of natatsha and the creepy eyes and red lips i have started getting a clearer image of this character version of claudia.
As i previously stated i want to incorporate the characters together depending on claudias mood so when she is playful i thought it would be more than appropriate to draw inspiration from saw, and the jigsaw mask. after all he was already asking do you want to play a game?
RELAXED QUENTIN AND CLAUDIA.
i thought about what might actually happen in the TV show and realistically with all TV shows set in apartments, there has to be just a relaxed mood, where they sit and do nothing together. so for me relaxed claudia would be the ultimate gothic horror character that every girl weirdly wants to be.... wednesday adams! the look I think i will be drawing on most is defiantly wednesday adams to me she couldn't fit Claudia's brief any better. This is the life she knows and is comfortable in a world were horror and gore is wonderful and she can feel comfortable.
and for quentin whilst Claudia becomes an interpretation of Wednesday adams who could be more appropriate than Frankenstein? obviously not the extreme version bolts, scars and green face. no not the hole shebang more the concept of frankenstein. the large broad brooding figure obliging to demands and ultimately pretty much grunts, wednesday adams perfect man really. i would still like to incorporate the death mask look and a few scars that Frankenstien's image includes as i think in this Claudia and quentin Claudia is defiantly weirdly attracted to horror and I don't think in her imagination a typically attractive guy like David Beckham would be her 'type'.
LUSTFUL CLAUDIA AND QUENTIN
horror is obviously not the most romantic genre but to me within the genre the most romantic kind of horrors are vampires they are lustful and loyal to there men. I think fitting with the fact that Claudia is freaking out that quentin is cheating on her maybe this is the one for of quentin that Claudia does Imagine a more typically handsome man, someone she thinks she can't trust. so I'm thinking about different movies and Van Helsing suddenly pops out at me, but instead of choosing any of the existing couples within the film maybe pairing the ideas of a women vampire and van helsing ?
SAD CLAUDIA AND QUENTIN
As the emphasis is on developing my skills in gothic hair and make up, I am expected to record several test shots to establish the look most suitable for the characters. At this point the character choices for Claudia would defiantly be between the clown inspired look and the wednesday Adam's inspired look. which ever I choose I will then pair this with the Quentin character that matches.
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