Preparing the actors SHOOT #1

Preparing the Actors for SHOOT 1

Ben Howse|The Counsellor

As Ben is seventeen and the counsellor in our film is meant to be in his mid-twenties, we needed to make him look older. We did this by flattening down his hair with hair wax, applying brown mascara, eyebrow wax and gel eyeliner to create facial hair and made him wear glasses. We added translucent powder to his face to even out the skin tone. We also added slight dark circles under his eyes in order to age him. We dressed him in a suit, shirt and tie to give a sense of professionalism to him, however underneath the blazer he wore a jumper to make him seem more comforting and approachable.

Matilda Hale(me)|Jessie

To make the character look like she had suffered from domestic abuse and had been physically attacked, we applied bruising to my face using different eyeshadows, lip gloss and countour powder after applying foundation, concealer and power as a base.To make my eyes appear swollen and tired we applied purple toned eye shadow under the eye and on the lid as a base. We then applied purple, dark brown, red, teal, slight blue and green eye shadows around her right eye to form a bruising effect. We also applied dark red and brown lip gloss in blots to make it appear like scabs on the forehead. We wanted the bruising to appear as if it were 'healing' but still recent and sore to touch, so it still had redness to it. I wore black jeans and a white jumper to create a sense of normality, dullness and also purity which had been disrupted by the abuse.