Claudias mental state...

Claudia is known to not want to venture outside ever, sit inside watching films with her imaginary boyfriend who she's madly in love with and she also thinks she's a popstar, this undoubtedly makes us question her mental state. I think this is an important thing to look at to allow me to really understand the character in which i need to create, and so i think that Claudia could be suffering from a number of different disorders. I decided to look at 2 that i think suit Claudia.

Agoraphobia:

This disorder for some is a fear of large open spaces, but people can still function within their day to day lives going to work, spending time with friends and family etc. However much the same as Claudia, extreme cases can cause people to fear even stepping out of their front door. If faced with the fear it can cause raised heartbeat, sweating, anxiety, panic attacks etc, this is something Claudia could experience when she thinks about having to leave her home, which could also explain why she created Quentin in her head. Someone to spend the days with and keep her company without having to actually venture past her front door to meet someone.

Available: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/agoraphobia/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Last accessed: 15th April 2014

Schizophrenia:

This disorder is severe and is based on people having hallucinations, that include hearing and seeing things that aren't really there, muddled thoughts and thoughts and beliefs that are not based upon reality. This really describes Claudia and explains her boyfriend Quentin. This is usually treated by medication, something Claudia may not have access to due to her fear of venturing outside.

Available: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/schizophrenia/pages/introduction.aspx
Last accessed: 15th April 2014

The definition of 'Gothic' today...

The word Gothic is thrown around to describe anything from places, to music to people. as it stands today the definition of Gothic is used to describe architecture, specifically that from the 18th to 20th century. It is also used to describe a trend of fashion in which people wear a lot of black clothing with lace, buttons, fishnet tights, lots of black eyeliner and chunky boots. This fashion is what is associated by the younger generation more, when hearing the word gothic rather than anything else.
Although the word alone conjures up images of or detailed buildings left derelict, and dark images with a sombre feel to them.


Here are some images that make me think of the word Gothic:

Available: http://www.pitt.edu/~tokerism/0040/syl/src1120.html

Last accessed: 10th April 2014

Available: http://www.carltonhobbs.net/furniture/gothick-part-i/2009/11/16/

Last accessed: 10 April 2014

Available: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2489974/An-urban-explorers-holiday-album-Traveller-spends-free-time-visiting-abandoned-buildings-world-despite-arrested-20-times-trespass.html

Last accessed: 10th April 2014

Available: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/713749/No-goths-allowed-on-bus.html

Last accessed: 10th April 2014

Available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth_subculture

Last accessed: 10th April 2014

Gothic horror mood board...

This is the mood board i created for gothic horror, I used pinterest to create my mood boards because i feel its a really good place to keep all your ideas and inspirations in one place and easily continue to add to as you go. In these images i look at images that seemed eery and creepy as well as gothic and horror based.

Available: http://www.pinterest.com/ayeshaneve/gothic-horror/
Last accessed: 9th April 2014

Horror films of inspiration...

Here are the trailers to the horror films i watched that helped lead to the creation of Claudia and Quentin

Penance

Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Xyl-CXNkc

Last accessed: 2nd April 2014

The conjuring 

Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejMMn0t58Lc

Last accessed: 2nd April 2014

Ghost ship

Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7xNXTpQA5Q

Last accessed: 2nd April 2014

Girl interrupted 

Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BHHUBZf7y4

Last accessed: 2nd April 2014

The uninvited

Available:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0eeAQGGwCU

Last accessed: 2nd April 2014

Meet Claudia. Meet Quentin. Love hurts...

This is the second half of the unit this term and it is based on gothic horror and 2 fictional characters, Claudia and Quentin.

Claudia is a young woman obsessed with horror films, has an obsessive personality and a fear to even step outside of her front door, all necessities needed are brought to her by neighbours and friends and so she sits inside and watches films and dreams of being a pop star. She is into fashion and always incorporates part of the film she is obsessed with at the time into her style. She has a boyfriend named  Quentin whom caters to her every need and is the perfect loving boyfriend. Only thing is he's a figure of her imagination and so technically doesn't exist within reality.

The idea is to create these 2 characters based on horror/gothic influences, but still ensuring the images would fit into a high fashion magazine. Aswell as this we also need to think up a possible song in which we believe our versions of Claudia and Quentin would fit into.

Practising Havisham...

Heres a mixture of images of experimentation for Miss Havisham both hair and makeup. 

This is my final hairstyle that I created. My aim was always to create Miss Havisham as a younger woman on her wedding day, or a few days after and so i needed her hair to be fairly neat and put together, and at the same time stick to Victorian influences  to ensure i kept to the period look the brief outlined that we must create. 

Hers the first makeup look i played around with based upon ageing using contouring. Although i like how this came out i decided it wasn't the sort of direction i wanted to take with my Miss Havisham look.

Further exploration of my final hair design adding more backcomb and height, and deciding whether or not i wanted to use a hair rat. I decided i didn't want to and so i had to create volume and height with backcombing and layering of the sections of hair.

This is experimentation of red eyes as i wanted to create my Miss havisham on her wedding day having just been stood up and so i wanted to create really red and crying eyes with neat hair.

This is another hair design i practised for my Miss Havisham, i wanted to create barrel curls on the head leading to the back of the head however i really disliked this hairstyle its far to flat and looks slightly more milk maid esque than i would have liked. Although i really don't like it i thought i should document it as this is what helped lead to my final hair design.

technical lesson- creating a victorian shape...

Products used:

• brush
• water
• sectioning clips
• sectioning comb
• hair grips
• bun grips

The aim of this lesson was to create a victorian hair style and then begin to decay it, whilst keeping in mind the idea of the type of silhouette we were creating. As you can see from the top image i began to back comb and pull some sections looser, however this is as far as i got, i would have liked to have added some dead flowers/petals and possibly some lace over the face, although this is what i will do for my silhouette shoot. I really like the shape i managed to create, i managed to achieve the volume by back combing and layering the hair, rather than adding a hair rat.

Firstly i created the french pleat at the back of the head after sectioning the hair from the back of the ears. When creating the french pleat i concentrated on ensuring the shape from the neck into the hair flowed neatly. 

From here i sectioned hair along the hair line from the temples round to the ears. I then split this section into 2 sections and rolled it using the same idea of a barrel curl and pinned these 2 sections on the hair line. Using a bun grip i then merged the 2 sections into one, and repeated this on the other side of the head.

Using the sections of hair between the 2 temples i separated these into a middle parting and added to curls on either side of the parting.

With the middle section of hair i split this into 3 sections, in the shape of a triangle. I then backcombed these sections one at a time and pinned them in a bouffant shape. After pinning down one section i then interviewed another section through or around each pinned section and pinned that.

Finally i got the 1st 2 curls on either side of the parting and brought this back onto the lifted shape onto the head and pinned them. 



I really like the shape i managed to create and Im going to take this idea forward to help me form my final hair design.