First shooting

Ben Howse-

Ben Howse is the councillor for the first scenes in our film opening. In order to make him seem more like a professional councillor we made the outfit smart with a dark black suit and tie, but then made it slightly more casual with a simple grey v-neck jumper in order to make his look seem more comforting. We also had to make him look older, and so we added glasses and gelled his hair in a slick back manor to seem a lot more professional. We also spent a lot of time on his makeup, by adding some dark foundation and powder to make his face seem clear and less shiny when on camera, to give a good quality look to the film. Dark eyeshadow was also added under his eyes to give the impression that he was older, and we took time drawing on a beard with eyebrow and eye makeup, which also added to idea of him looking more professional and more mature.

Matilda Hale-

Tilly was the main actress for our film opening, and this is a headshot of her before adding the bruised makeup.

As we had practised the bruised makeup previous to the initial filming, the makeup was very quick and precise, which was important because it meant we had a lot more time for the actual filming. For the bruising we added some subtle purple and red eyeshadows under her eyes and more prominently on the right eye to indicate the audience that she has been involved in a violent  attack from the very start of the opening. We also added more shadowing the collar bones to give the impression that she is very run down and obviously effected by the attack. However, we did not want to make the makeup too obvious and bloody like we had previously, because this would give the impression that she had not tried to cover up the injuries, which a lot of domestic abuse victims do, so we added some foundation, concealer  and mascara to give a more realistic feel to the makeup.