Christine Blundell and Cliff Wallace- The Make - up

Yesterday we had the opportunity to meet Christine Blundell,  she works in big mainstream films such as Sherlock Holmes. She is a make up artist and she has worked with big people such as Cameron Diaz.  She allowed us to look at some of the amazing work she has done. She uses make up, which gives movies life like and excellent special effects. This is Christine's website, http://www.cbmacademy.com/ .

After explaining our idea to Christine she help us with effects we can use in our horror trailer.

 Working with both christine and Cliff allowed us to ask them for advice and ask them questions which can help us with our horror trailer 'The Asylum'. In our case we needed to ask how we can turn an ordinary girl into a mental patient (grace, who is going around killing and torturing people). Rather than telling us to pile on make up to give out an effect she told us to do the opposite, she told us to wipe off all the make up, make them look as pale as possible. She told us to make the characters hair as greasy as possible, she told us that we can do this by using simple baby gel which you can buy from any supermarket. She gave us the idea of making them have very dreary eyes, and big dark and hollow bags under neath there eyes, this shows the effect of them being worn out. 

This was a brilliant experience and helped us with our production, they gave us brilliant ideas on how to make our charcters have the full effect and the full feel of being a mental patient.


Other than helping us with our horror trailer, she taught us how to make fake skin and also how to make fake blood. She made us aware of how easy it is to do these things. She told us how to make blood by just using golden syrup and food colouring. She taught us how to make skin peeling but just using tissue. Speaking to Christine and Cliff was an amazing opportunity. 


Here is a picture of some of the brilliant work ....