LO2: Make up trial

For our music video the band are supposed to look aged. We had arranged for a Make up artist student to do the make up but at the last moment this fell through. We then looked online at tutorials on YouTube. We felt confident that we could do the make up ourselves so I practised with make up I already had.

We then did another test run in College and were quite happy with the results. We then showed the Band a picture and they were also happy. The band then gave us permission to buy make up for them and we bought a mix of foundations and white/silver hairspray totalling at the price of £15. The band arranged their own costumes and I brought some props with me such as a walking stick, glasses, a straw trilby and tweed flat cap and other little props we could use from the nursing home like the Zimmer frame.




This was the video we used for inspiration for the make up on how to make people look a older through the power of make up. We used this video when practising in college and on each other.

This was the costumes the band had chosen to wear as this is how they think they would look in their old age.

The venue was also well kitted as it was an old peoples home as we were aloud to use the living room area, they had  props already and the band also brought glasses and walking sticks etc. The costumes and props worked really well to create a believable verisimilitude. To increase the continuity of the Video the band wore the same costume on both filming dates, so we had a sense of continuity.

For the nurses costumes we also had been watching the series of Derek for inspiration, we also used the programme for inspiration on props and things we would need to make the scene believable.












This was the costumes for the nurse and the two people used for the nurses within the music video, as the costumes were similar to those we had seen on the programme Derek, so we took inspiration from that. We asked them to wear plain clothing and I brought with me two aprons that Isabelle's mum to borrow from work. The aprons had logos on them that I hadn't noticed prior so we politely asked the supervisor at the home if we could borrow some and they were more than happy to oblige, so it looked like they were actually part of the nursing staff.

This was the car the band had borrowed from one of their friends, for filming of the music video. As we needed the band to get from A to B so needed some sort of transport and this car really fit in well with the sort of feel of the video.