Quentin

Below are the final images from my character shoot for Quentin. I wanted to shoot  him showing both the cuts on his face along with covering his eyes with a bloodied bandage, I think that although the bare photo shows more of the makeup I prefer the ones with the bandage as it brings the entire look together. 

The makeup was very simple, with the cuts taking up the majority of the time to make sure that I could get them looking right. Initially I used the technique that we learnt in our lessons to dip a hairpin into fake blood to create the scratches- however it didn't look very effective on the skin when I tried; the blood kept being thicker at the point rather than creating a good even scratch. As I was getting very disheartened by this, I changed to using an angled brush which made it so much easier to get a good line and much quicker as well. One element that I am quite disappointed about is the colour of the blood- I ordered fake blood from Kryolan and chose the light colour rather than dark - I think that because they are light they look more 'angry' and slightly more theatrical. 

I'm glad I ripped and added blood to the shirt that he was wearing as well, I think that if I hadn't done this then the aesthetic of the entire look wouldn't be as good. By dirtying his shirt it makes it look more as though he fell completely into the 'pile of thorns' like in the original story. 

For his hair, I just used his natural parting and texture just to slightly 'fluff' his hair up a bit to give it a 'put-together messy look'.

For the character portrait, I wanted to show him in a defensive pose with the blindfold on to make it seem like he can't see who his assailant is (Mrs Laderman). I thought that this would show the cuts that I put on the palms of his hands, along with the bruising on his arm and hand. I thought that adding bruising to his arm and hand would make it look like defensive wounds, to show that Mrs Laderman is an abusive character along with his 'Prince' quality of defending not only himself but Claudia as well- and so relating it back to my inspirational words 'Save Us'. 

Initially I didn't want to have anyone else in the shot, however it seemed quite fake to have him posing without someone else being there. Justine offered to grab the front of his shirt, bringing in this other character into the photographs and making them look less posed and rigid and more like action shots. I definitely prefer the shots with the arm as it brings them to life so much more.