Auditioning for the Actresses

15/02/10

Today we had auditions for the 'Diane' character and five people turned up.
My role in this was to print their pictures and write down what times they were due in for and what day so that when they arrive I can recognise them and collect them, bring them to the director and producer - Ethan and Nayomi and make sure everything is running smoothly.
When they have finished auditioning I then escorted them out of the Cat Hill campus and thanked them for participating in our project.

It was very insightful seeing the actress's audition as I got to understand more of what was expected from the director and how deep the character 'Ilona' should be.
In my opinion the script was very well thought of and due to its imaginitivness of 'the boiler letting out a brownish orange colour' the actress's had to make it look and sound believable. Whereas, I noticed one actress sounded alot as though she was just reading from a script with not enough emotion and to be honest it just sounded very ameteur.

Researching ways to portray a melting face

At the beginning of the production I was going to be doing the Special Effects make-up however it turned out different and Nayomi Roshini instead took the role of Special Effects however nevertheless I researched into a step by step process, I found, in which we can create a melting face.


This is the second part where I put the red dough onto the skull- the area that mostly has muscle







This is to create muscle, tender and skin to give a more natural realistic effect






This is where I will be boiling the wax and will add a red and purple crayon to add muscle colour








I add the nose eyes and other feature etc.

Create some flesh-tone wax and apply it and then add the makeup for a finishing touch







Get a heat-gun or a hair dryer to melt the face.







This is maybe something we are looking for..still not sure but it don't hurt to have a look and see what melting ideas I find...



17/02/10

I am currently looking at a few websites for special effects make up to see what they have and what can benefit me and my group for the 'melting scene'.

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-the-Indiana-Jones-Face-Melt-Effect

This is a step by step showing a face mask:

I will need: a skull
playdough (red)
wax
boiling water to melt the wax and add purple and red crayon to add muscle colour
add white wax all over
flesh tone wax
artificial hair
make up for the eyes lips nose and eyebrows
hair dryer or heat gun to melt the face
Two white gumballs you can use as eyes

Old crayons
Two and a half pound block of Amco Flexwax
Red playdough
A skull
Double boiler or crab pot
Heat gun or hair dryer