Final Images - Miss Havisham

This is my final portrayal of Miss Havisham:

I have depicted her not as an elderly frail woman, but due to research into the Victorian era, I have depicted her as a mature but distressed woman, where the signs of her emotional state have clearly influenced how her physical state – with hints of aging through latex around the eyes and then using both make up and latex created a skin type where it is drawn, and in need of repair due to lack of care as well as showing signs of how she is not eating properly due to her emotional anguish through the darkening and contouring of the collarbone.

Final Images - Estella

This is my final portrayal of Estella:

I have depicted her as a young women just before she is sent off into the city by Miss Havisham, and prior to meeting and completing her ‘task’ from how she was raised to entice men and leave them in a similar state to Miss Havisham.

And then again after she is seen by the protagonist Pip after she has been hit by his rival Drummle and the man she was to be engaged to.

"So," She said "The days have worn away, have they?" - Aging and Wounds with Latex

During the development of the character Miss Havisham, it was obvious to create the bedraggled hairstyle that looked worn and slept in so due to the prior Estella hair trials I was able to know that to help slightly age Miss Havisham’s character the design would need to more similar to the barrel roll look as this had aged the model before and I felt assured it would complete the look.

So when developing Miss Havisham’s character I decided to focus on some of the more subtle detailing that a TV/Film camera could pick up on and in the novel ‘Great Expectations’ Dickens portrays Havisham as having almost a nervous/anxious domina - it was shown in the BBC adaptation as her excessively scratching her hands so using Latex and grease paints I was able to create a to the eye subtle but obvious show of this self inflicted damage she causes to herself.

    

'after we had shaken hands, "I will never forget you" ' - Production Neccesaties / Styling

It is important to take into consideration the fabric for creating the looks due to production budgets, as they can either find more expensive or cheaper alternatives but still similar aesthetically to create a full costume, for the shoot's to show the looks I used:

Materials: costing from £2.99 - £5.99 (per meter)

Accessories: costing from £1.50 - £20

Flowers – Lillies are seen as a elegant and beautiful flower often well liked by women however they also have a close connection with funerals and death which would help portray when used in the bed-draggled wedding hair styling of Miss Havisham the death of her faith in men, love and marriage.

Materials:

Miss Havisham - Off white and peach tones so to create the fact that it is an aged fabric but combined with floral patterns, it would obviously depict wedding dress.

Estella -Purple is seen as a alluring colour full of passion and with white contrasts to showcase an innocence, while with a darker fabric it portrays a darker and anguished look.

Both characters – necklaces showcase how the two characters are interlinked and the larger heart on MH shows the authority. But also the fact that the character Estella is more pessimistic when it comes to emotion and love due to how she was raised.

Continuity key elementsare also a key aspect to consider, for example Estella’s bruising, the make up would need to be considered so that if scenes are re-shot or with the filming schedule the either prior or after the incident the make up would need to be the same, with the consideration of how, and what caused the mark from the impact so to create a believable addition to the look.

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"He said, no varnish can hide the grain of wood" - Initial designs for Miss Havisham

In the majority of 'Great Expectations' adaptations , Miss Havisham is often portrayed in a very similar way; extremely aged, haggard and covered in dust and cobwebs. I wanted to create two alternatives to the standard Miss Havisham look though, so after discovering that the character could be any age, but old enough to look aged to the young protagonist Pip, I created these two initial designs for Miss Havisham.

Miss Havisham Interpretation 1:      Aging

Again this is more of a ‘Classic’ style towards the adaptation of Miss Havisham – with the contouring and use of latex aging this would give the character the well known haggard look, although to make it slightly more contemporary the eye make up has a slight flick to the eyeliner and the pale pink/peach coloured lip would then be a subtle addition so that the eyes and the facial contouring were the main aspects instantly viewed by an audience.

Miss Havisham Interpretation 2:        Dramatic

This is a more dramatic and attention grabbing design, so to be able to see on the template the eye make up appears extremely dark, however to create this look I would be showing a subtle design of a clearly ‘worn’ and emotional make up, where due to the fact the character has been abandoned at the alter the mascara running/tear marks would be visible on the face yet due to the time frame since that incident and then the fact that she is still in this manner of dress in case her runaway lover does ever return to her the eye makeup would look like she has reapplied it every now and then but never in the same manner as it would have originally been and always on top of the existing so the build up/flaking make up would need to be visible, along with this slight contouring to show age compared to the other characters, but not extreme enough to make her into the usual elderly thought of woman and a neutral lip to showcase and draw attention to the eyes.

"O the sense of distance and disparity that came upon me" - HD Ready Make Up

Technological advances of the 21st century brought the new way to filming known as High Definition television (HD TV), which shows extraordinary pixel quality which displays even clearer pictures.

Due to these advances in technology, make up has begun to be developed so help continue giving model's and actors/actress' the flawless skin look which is always aimed to be achieved - Airbase is one of the leading companies in this and have begun to create especially adapted foundations and blushers that with still give this look through the filming and photography with High Definition, through the process of airbrushing.

Knowing about this new development creating our looks for the MFS109 unit we have to remember that we are completing final looks for the characters of Miss Havisham and Estella for a romantic/comedy genre production television, set in a period drama filmed with the latest technology. I have included this idea during the whole process of creating both the characters of Estella and Miss Havisham. Remembering to create a similar 'perfect' base that would be seen as if using an airbrush application.