Gory Make-up

Gory Make-up

In the final part of our opening we want to show the face of the dead sister but this time with her looking gory and terrifying as this will alert the audience that she is the antagonist and to be feared which would set them up for the rest of the film. It would also create a sense of fear and also hopefully make the audience jump.
This is used in many films for effect such as:

Frankenstein:

Make-up artist: Jack Pierce

 The Frankenstein make-up was comprised of many different materials namely; cotton, collodion and gum, and green greasepaint (which was designed to look pale due to the black and white of the film). which was built up to give the allusion of a big forehead and overbearing eyebrows which looks intimidating. The make-up also had to fit in with the storyline of the film and so scars were created on the forehead and neck and he was given bolts through his neck. The make-up was not designed to look too bloody or gory as this would not have fitted in with the theme and logic of the storyline. It was more intended to look scary, big and intimidating- especially amongst the more old-fashioned period.

Make-up artist: Dick Smith

The Exorcist:
 In The Exorcist make-up had to be used to turn the 12-year old actress into a demon-possessed girl. A method of using foam latex, which was moulded and baked and then layered onto the skin was used to create the scarring and swelling of Blair's face which was a much more effective method than a whole latex mask and is now the method more commonly used in film today. Although the make-up was elaborate the artist also felt it necessary to make it still look believable so that they could still watch the movie and take in the storyline.
Our opening:
In our opening, we need to give them impression that the antagonist is dead as she has come back to life. We will hopefully achieve this by using pale face paint and dark make-up around the eyes and on the contours of the face to make her look gaunt and life-less. However, to increase the shock factor we would like to create a scar on the character's face or neck to perhaps give an insight into how she was killed and make it seem more scary and gory. We will achieve this using make-up effects wax which is usually moulded and then stuck onto the face to look like scabbing and swelling and also fake-blood which will hopefully make it seem like it has been cut, like featured in the picture above from the exorcist.

Our made-up cut in the process of being completed