The Walking dead

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    The Walking Dead is an American TV series produced in 2010. It is based on the bestseller by Robert Kirkman comic, published by Image Comics in the US.

    The Walking Dead is a drama full of action and suspense that tells the story of a group of American survivors of a zombie invasion. Led by police officer Rick Grimes (played by British actor Andrew Lincoln, already seen in AfterLife), survivors wander in search of a safe place to escape to, and along the way face many dangers and conflicts, even of a personal nature. Because there is no longer a place to feel safe, and it is no longer time for hope. You just have to survive at any cost!

    A huge cast participated for the production of these TV series. But I will bring my attention on people who have dealt with the esthetic part on the actors- the make-up artists and hair stylists.

The hair stylists who were responsible for the hair designs were: Taylor Knight, Vincent Gideon, Nikki Bell, Shunika Terry, T.A. Henderson, Andrea C. Brotherton. 

The persons who were responsible for the make up and all the special effects were: Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger, Andy Schoneberg, Kevin Wasner, Jake Garber, Carey Jones, Garrett Immel, Donna M. Premick, Gino Crognale, Essie Cha, Mark James Ross, Yolanda Sheridan, André Freitas, Toby Sells, Jaremy Aiello, Caley Brooks, Bill Johnson, Char Coats-Crump, Derek Krout, Kerrin Jackson, Matthew Silva, Norman Cabrera, Miracole Burns, Duane Saylor, Alex Diaz, Dave Grasso, Manuel Beccaro, Jessica Lang, Christopher Padilla, Denise Tunnell, Beth Hathaway, Grady Holder, Tracey L. Miller-Smith, Malika James, Chauntelle Langston, Addison Foreman, Mayumi Murakami, Christopher Allen Nelson, Kaleigh Brooks, Lee Grimes, Steve Katz, Richard Maybery, Clare Mulroy, Dirk Rogers, Michael Ross, David Wogh.

    

    I have decided to choose this Tv series because I find it very interesting all that storyline about the life after the dead! I was always asking myself if zombies have ever existed and can be life after dead. Obviosly it is just a TV series, and nothing in it was really endearing. I also thought it can be a good chalange for me to create some interesting special effects for the new project, especially as special effects are a real challange for me in general. I also thought that it might be really interesting the idea to base all my project on dirtyness- which is the most important element. And it is quite interesting because I always fight for perfection and trying to create imperfection is going to be a nice experience.

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Practice on dark Make-up

During one of our sessions we were aske to create a look that we saw on the papers that our teacher gave us. These looks were based on various avat-garde designs. Here is mine:

I have decided to create a full look that includes not only make up but hair as well. It is an avant-garde look inspired from that picture I had to copy and I would defenetely use it for a catwalk. I completed the look creating a hight placed ponytail adding some dry shampoo to create the white line. I decided to make this line in the hair to give an extra touch.It completes the look with a light point that make to attract the attention even more.

Final Evaluation

    Overall,  I'm pleased with all the designs I've done and the final looks I managed to create.

    If talking about the first part of the project: "Continuity". The task was to create a look suitable for Miss Havisham's character from Great Expectation and then to recreate exactly the same look. It was an interesting experience, but at the same time demanding.I found it challenging to recreate same the same colour tones, textures, lines, the same length of the curls and exactly the same number of curls. Regardless all these details I'm happy with the final result even tough there are some mistakes as for example the skin tone, the smudged lips and the special effect of dry skin on the cheek-bone.

     Regarding the second part of the project which was creating the look for another character from the Great Expectation: Estella. This part of the project was easy from a technical point of view, but I found it difficult from the creative aspect. All the designs I created for this character were too much for a simple Victorian look. I love to let my creative spirit free, thing that I found very hard to do, especially in this part of the project.
    I think it was a really nice experience, I'm also very glad we have studied how to create special effects and I've also realized that this kind of make-up, especially the special effects, are not the job I'd like to do in my future. I enjoyed doing them but I realized that creating and doing some more creative looks as for fashion shows or even editorial make-up would be something more adapt for me. Also during the sessions while I was creating my special effects, at every single lesson the teacher was saying that my work was mor " Fashion" than "Realistic".

Dark eyes and perfect lips

We had a practical session in which we studied how to crete perfect black eyes: we had to try to crete the look we were given, and here is the result:

This is the design I had to follow:

I didn't apply any foundation or ather products. I was concentrated to create only the eye make-up and the perfect shape of the lips. I am happy with the resul because it came as I expected it to be.

Estella- final look

Estella's look was natural suitable with the Ideal Victorian look:

 

 

I believe it is a suitable look for Estella's character with very soft and delicate line. Unfortunatly my model couldn't take off her piercing but if she was without it, I think the make-up and the hair are suitable for thi character.

Miss Havisham- final result and continuity

Miss Havisham's first part of the assessment consisted of creating the look as we designed it, and here is the result:

The second part of the assessment consisted of creating exactly the same look as it was the continuity assessment:

 I'm quite happy with my result, even though there are some differences between the first and the second make-up. I'm not really happy with the lips, probably the base is whiter and maybe too much red colour under the eyes.

Estella's hair for the assessment

This is the hair design for the Estella's assessment. It is an early Victorian hairstyle. It consists of a middle parting on the top of the head. Each part is with straight hair that cover the ears in a soft way which ends are going towads behind..... Behind the head I wanted to create a bun which in my design is situated quite law but I changes it in a higher bun during the assessment. On the bottom side of the bun are falling some curls that make the design to look more mid-Victorian style.