Make Up Planning and Practicing

With our make up. Since the shots used and how the film is represented was decided by me, the Director, I had told Amber, our Actress/Costume designer, that I wanted scars on the villain in our film opening, this is very common in film as it adds a sense of mystery, danger and pain in the characters background story or past. Here are a few examples:-

Most of these effects made by major film making studios are done with CGI, this means it is very hard to recreate such complex make up with very little experience in the industry. So this means we have to be very strategic in our design so that less, is more. This was a challenge since we had to strategically place scars and injuries to give enough mystery about our character but not too much so that its over used. So the decision was to have a scar on his arm, this scar will be introduced at the start, and either scars on the villains lips or across his checks. We haven't decided since we will be practicing, giving him scars on his lips, but if it doesn't look professional or realistic then were going to simplify it to just a scar across his face. Here is an attempt at having scars on the lips:-

How we made the all the scars are the same and is going to shown in the following example:-

- First, glue is applied to the skin

- Then bits of tissue is stuck onto the skin to create a scar resembled texture

- After this, skin coloured foundation is used to cover up the tissues and make it look more and more realistic.

- Finally, the use of glue to give the final touches to the way the scar looks.