Monday, 16 December 2013

Face Paint Tutorial



This video features myself face painting one of the models which will be featuring in my music video, although the idea of my characters in the music video having their face painted isn't important. I did want to experiment with the idea of giving the characters a different look, almost making them unrecognisable. During this video, I first started off with a single coat of white paint, then letting it dry and re-coating the face one more with white paint. This making the white more vibrant against his skin tone, and also more obvious when looking at the face. After this, I mixed a white paint with a black paint to create a silver coloured grey paint - this then being placed on the eyelids, and around the eyes. Adding a more worn down and almost dead effect to the character being painted on. Once there, I then added "war paint" which throughout history has always being considered as threatening. This effect is helpful, as it relates to the powerful effect in which the song 'All I Want' is considered to have - this helping the mise-en-scene relate back to the lyrics being used in the music video. For the war paint, I added two large black tear drops on each cheek, before drawing a line which separates at the bridge of the nose before spreading down into two separate lines down the rest of the nose. From there I also added another line on the chin, to add to the symmetry of the design (war paint). After the video cuts out, I also added another layer of white paint onto the skin to brighten it up and make it more vibrant once again. 

Final Outcome:



I am proud with the final outcome as it came out with the effect in which I wanted to have. That effect being that at first the face paint is not threatening at all, although after staring at it for a while it seems to have an effect which can get to an audience, and almost intrigue them. With the extra white coat which was added after the video has finished, it gives off a more vibrant effect on the model's face. As well as the grey around the eyes making the colour of his iris' more vibrant and bold against the make-up, once again intriguing the audience as having brightly coloured eyes is not considered as natural. 

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