Make up ideas

For the narrative part of our music video, we decided to keep the makeup at bare minimum and as simple as possible. This is because we want to portray the character as being depressed and heart-broken from her loss, and therefore she doesn’t take much care and attention about her image. We believe that by doing this, it will make the narrative more realistic, meaning the audience will be able to identify with the character more. The make up we used was simply, some base foundation and mascara.

For the performance section of our music video, we thought it would be a good chance to dress the artist up with glitter eye shadow, lip gloss, eye liner and mascara to give the ‘star’ image look. This is because we wanted to distinguish the difference between the performance and the narrative of the story, as well as providing the audience to an insight of the artist’s persona and enabling to audience to recognise the artist.

For the establishing shot (the bathroom scene) we decided that by smudging the make up used for the narrative sections, it would emphasise the depressed state that the character is in, meaning the audience are more likely to be sympathetic towards her. This is to show that she doesn’t care so much about her image, and that her loss is putting her in a self loathing state.