Final Evaluation

I am exceptionally pleased with the skills I have learnt on this project. I feel that I have learnt a lot more technical skills, and honed some technical skills from last year that I wasn’t very confident with. I have also gained a lot more experience about working in the industry, in terms of discussing designs and executing someone else’s design and doing a good job purely based on your own skills and not what you think looks pretty in your own head.

I have learned so much about Weimar Berlin, which I am now embarrassed to say I didn’t even know existed. All the history I knew about Germany centred so much around WWII and Hitler, I never really thought about what Germany was like before that. I’m amazed at how open it was and how, much it relates to present day in terms of their openness of sexuality, expressing who they were as well as certain negative points such as the state of economic crisis and what people will do when money is a problem. I really enjoyed researching into Weimar culture and it is something I would like continue researching and referencing in projects to come, including non-university related ones.

When it came to creating my historical character, I found it quite tricky at times as it needed to look completely historical so I found it quite hard to come up with a look that didn’t look boring and the same as everyone else’s. When it came to the actual research and creation however, I found that working through the 11 Stanislavski posts really helped with working out what my perception of Fraülein Kost was. I enjoyed working through keywords and translating these into my design, although looking back now, I feel I could have looked a little more into this. I have definitely taken it on board as a learning curve however, so next term I will work harder on this aspect of designing.

I am exceptionally pleased with how my Contemporary design turned out. I had initially come up with a different idea, but when my model cancelled on my last minute, I was forced to come up with a new design. I am so glad this happened. I came up with my new design the night before I had to present it, and got a true taste of how faced things move in the industry. I went in a completely different direction, not only to my first design, but also to how I normally go. I truly stepped out of my comfort zone and I am so happy with the results. I feel like I utilised a lot of the skills we learnt in Lottie’s lesson and it forced me to thing creatively and look at all sorts of references and inspiration that I wouldn’t look at. Next time, I would like to get a little more experimental with the hair however. I am happy with it for the purpose of this look, as I wanted the makeup to be the main focus, but next term I would like to get more creative with my hair styling.

All in all, I am happy with my progression this term. It may have been a little delayed, but I definitely feel a lot more confident as a makeup artist and designer!

Contemporary Sally Bowles Photoshoot

Here are some of the images from my photo shoot for my contemporary version of Sally Bowles. All in all I'm really pleased with how the look turned out.

After speaking to Sharon and Kat Vogart about my design, I decided to go a slightly different route and create the Otto Dix painting on both sides of the face, but just the top half. I softened the white as I got further down the face to create a "ombre" to mimic the "ombre" of the pink and yellow under the eye, and this helped to make the lips stand out a little more and look even more contemporary.

 There were a few issues with the makeup, for example the black around the eyes kept on creasing no matter what I did; powder, eye shadow base etc. I definitely will not be using greasepaint on the eyes again! I had to stand behind the camera with my blending brush in hand and fix it after every couple of shots and it all turned out fine. I had to do the same with lips, due to the sheer amount of gloss and lipstick used to achieve the effect, I had to continuously fix it as we went along . It was really great experience as I got a photography student to shoot for me. and we worked really well together, continuously checking the photos as they were being taken to see what adjustments needed to be made and what was showing up on camera etc. 

I'm extremely happy with how my look turned out, despite the makeup issues. I definitely feel that I  overcame them quite well however.

I also had to deepen the brush line on the nose that was part of my design. Up close it looked fine, but on camera it just looked well contoured, but it needed to be a little more defined to look like a brush stroke.

New Berliners