Initial Make-up Ideas

Ideas

After finalising our idea on what our music video would consist of and include, our next task was to design the make-up which would help to establish the scene and the mood we were aiming for. Considering our music video is now primarily concept, also with areas of narrative and performance, we decided that the dancers in the video should have the make-up to suit the gloomy and almost sad themes which run through the song. Having being inspired by the contemporary band HURTS, we felt that an extravagant make-up design would conform to what we were trying to achieve and that it would also appeal to our target audience. 

Our first thought was to a design and a colour palette which would show up well whilst on camera from various distances (not just close ups). By decorating the eye area heavily on each dancer with either dark or a vibrant colour range, we believed that would show up in the way we hoped on camera. 

The images to the left demonstrate the use of a vibrant shade of blue. Although the colouring looked very effective close up, it was not suitable from a distance of even a few feet away let alone a distance concerning a matter of metres whilst filming. We did infact include a strip of silver eye liner just above the eye lashes. The fact that the whole make-up design did not even show up on a close up picture confirms that this style will not be suitable for filming for our music video. We continued to experiment with colours, shapes and designs for our make-up as it, we feel, an important aspect of the video.

The black and silver design, right, is the next thought which we put into practise. As you can see, the picture is a lot more grabbing and creates more of a bold statement than the previous design. This experiment uses far darker colours, predominantly black with flashes of silver which we feel is more accommodating with the concepts we hope to include in our music video. We will use this style of make-up as the basis of our 'final' make-up idea and we will continue to develop it.