Facecharts:Quentin

• kryolan eyeshadow pallette
• latex
• white facepaint
• mac coppering

• mac coppering
• mac embark
• mac carbon

mac carbon

mac coppering

supra color pallette 

Final Costumes

Mustard cardigan soaked in tea bags.
Charity shop dress.


Quentin - Vest top , short sleeve blue shirt old my old

Quentin hair ////

In the 60's it was a drastic change to mens hair, from sauve sleek styles to over grown mops !
seeing as quentin is a figure of Claudia's imagination he could have either.
These styles have caught my eye.






http://youngblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1950s-mens-hairstyles-costume-ideas-amp-suggestions-1960s-mad-men-theme-party-shot-in.jpg




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presentation

American Horror story- Asylum

I chose this tv series/season because i fits in with my original idea before the brief change.

The setting is Briarcliff Mental institute, massachusetts

So Who Watches it?

18-49 years olds watch this show due to the gripping storyline. The sexual side of things cater to both age groups as the idea of sexy in this program is old and young. what also makes this program interesting is the fact that they keep the same actors every series but give them different characters to play.

Claudia

My version of claudia fits into this series because she is a mental patient.

Claudia is a young Girl Trapped in a Asylum due to her personality disorder. Claudia has created an alter-ego/personality Quentin. She becomes Quentin when she feels angry , upset or vulnerable. Quentin often appears with an alien like face. This is because Claudia feels like an alien and like nobody understands her. He also sometimes appears with a mutilated mouth. This is because Claudia wishes he would shut up half the time as his thoughts are usually harmful or depressing. The audience will often see Claudia and 'Quentin' have arguments in the cell (Whiles Claudia looks into a mirror). Sometimes it would seem like a marital squabble or something a lot more scary and abusive. Claudia will appear on a 'Good day' (whatever that is in an asylum), Quentin appears on bad days (depressed, self harming , suicidal Claudia) Though you occasionally see them together when one personality attempts to break through.

I chose the word slipping because claudia is slowly slipping from reality, She's starting to wonder if Quentin is real or whether its a dark side she never knew she had.

The key word inspired me to investigate mental disorders, i started to look at personality disorders and watch videos of real people experiencing a personality disorder.

I now need to practise the different ways of someone looking crazy, tired , warn out and maybe ill.

My claudia Facechart

Quentin 

How does he fit into the series? He is Claudias 'other' personality 

what will i need to do to develop my character? Research personality disorders and look at sfx for the mouth.

Quentin face chart! 

I now need to practise the special effects side and find costumes 

Facecharts:claudia

RED LIPSTICK AROUND MOUTH MARY EUNICE GAVE TO HER. TRYS TO TAKE CARE OF HER APPEARANCE BUT SHES JUST MENTAL

My first face chart demonstrates a light tired look. I imagine this is what someone would look like with sleepless nights due to the loud sounds of the asylum and also the stress of her personality disorder.

This look is the same tired look but with an added red lipstick that belonged to Sister mary eunice. This facechart is showing that Claudia may still try to take care of herself in prison

This is claudia in a scene that i imagined her in.

Quentin convinces her to kill one of the nuns and afterwards she completely snaps, She stares into the mirror laughing creeply and applying lipstick over and over untill it starts to pass the lines of her lips and on to her face.

With this look i used alot of yellow in the face to show the begging of jaundice. 

This is another tired haggard look but very dark and ill looking. i used lots of browns pinks and dark purples with this look.

Claudia hair.

The 60's is famous for the classic beehive, the fringe and ponytails!
considering that Claudia lives in a asylum I only assume that she will not have access to the latest  beauty products so in reality she looks like a mess.

my model has short blonde hair with a full fringe. I can work the fringe to an advantage as it was very popular in the 60's.

I decided to google for some images of 'crazy' people to see what sort of hair they may have. I also researched the characters from the series to see how well(or unwell ) kept their hair was.

Watching the video above everyone seems to have incredible bedhead hair when kept inside the asylum.


  
http://www.vanityfair.com/unchanged/2013/01/american-horror-story-recap-gore-dries-up-aliens-go-awol

This image from vanity fair shows sister Jude Martin (jessica Lange) when she was declared crazy and was sectioned. As you can see by looking at her hair its messy with a natural curl.
I think i could achieve this sort of natural mess by letting my model go to bed with bed hair in a towel.


Another Thought I had I that if Claudia was fairly new to the asylum she would still have the hair and make up that she had the days she was sectioned.  I later realized that all patients at briar cliff go through a cleansing stage where they are stripped naked and washed clean! so maybe not!

Costume research

Whiles watching AHS i realized that the patients wear any type of clothing but it is a dull blue with some sort of  jacket/cardigan



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Pepper wears dull blue and a powder pink cardi


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=american+horror+story+asylum&espv=2&biw=1242&bih=545&site=webhp&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=w_IqVY__INarafm9gNgL&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=american+horror+story+asylum+kit&revid=47607094&imgrc=CuTxDORU3XrDxM%253A%3BhNGbXqu3OliPYM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmedia.giphy.com%252Fmedia%252Fjy4wQA6Iij81q%252Fgiphy.gif%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fgiphy.com%252Fgifs%252Fcute-dancing-dance-jy4wQA6Iij81q%3B245%3B245

 kit wears a dull blue shirt dark bottoms and a white t-shirt. this outfit screams 50's as this was the style young men wore. Perhaps more lively colours though.




 1950s mens style.
https://www.pinterest.com/damienbasile/damien-basile-fw15-inspiration/

you can see that all though kit is in a asylum he still tries to keep his 'uniform' current



http://www.allthatsepic.com/television/american-horror-story-asylum-episode-4-review/


this picture shows all of the patients wearing a dull blue or navy colour

UPDATE:18.04.15

I've decided to put Claudia in a night dress with a tattered mustard cardi! hopefully i will be able to find both whiles charity shopping!

Thinking ahead : possible location for shoot?

This was one of my possible locations for my shoot. 

This is my student halls and ever since i moved in i thought it looked like come sort of prison or asylum!

Notes: Claudia

when i think about Claudia i think of her being a pretty blonde thing, Innocent as ever but her personality disorder has landed her in the asylum. I Feel that she will need to fit in with her surroundings so i need to watch the episode carefully and focus on the patients clothing, hygiene and hair. This will show whether the nuns take good care of the patients or whether they are left to fend for themselves.

In this video you can see the patient looks reasonably clean but very tired looking and rough.

When looking at Lana Winter (A reporter wrongfully put into the asylum) You can see that she is clean but looks pale, unwell and unkept. I also noticed that a lot of the patients wear a pale blue colour which i will need to take into consideration when creating my Claudia character 

The hair of the patients is often looks like they have been in bed for days and have never seen a comb! 

Things I need to look at due to this research:

• Costume for Claudia to match other patients 
• Costume for Quentin, Will he dress like the other patients or will he wear whatever claudia wants him to due to being a delusion! 
• ways to mess up hair and make it look unkept
• ways to make claudia look tired, unkept and ill

American what?

American horror story, an original anthology series created by Ryan Murphy. This series features self-contained story lines in plenty of haunted locations. The Series I am Focusing on is Asylum.
In Briarcliff Mental Institute, Massachusetts the story's follows a number of mental patients and their own individual story's, most being bizarre or supernatural.

From Possessed nuns to Alien invasions I am 100% sure I can fit my characters in with ease!

Story line and ideas.

My idea for this project.

The Mr and Mrs comfort pictures gave me an idea of a twisted beauty and beast.

Claudia is a young Girl Trapped in a Asylum due to her personality disorder. Claudia has created an alter-ego/personality Quentin. She becomes Quentin when she feels angry , upset or vulnerable. Quentin often appears with an alien like face. This is because Claudia feels like an alien and like nobody understands her. He also sometimes appears with a mutilated mouth. This is because Claudia wishes he would shut up half the time as his thoughts are usually harmful or depressing. The audience will often see Claudia and 'Quentin' have arguments in the cell (Whiles Claudia looks into a mirror). Sometimes it would seem like a marital squabble or something a lot more scary and abusive. Claudia will appear on a 'Good day' (whatever that is in an asylum), Quentin appears on bad days (depressed, self harming , suicidal Claudia) Though you occasionally see them together when one personality attempts to break through.

The Scene you first meet Claudia and Quentin.

*The Camera explores the asylum looking into each cell at each patient. The audience will see patients either child like and playful, Crazy and possessed or rocking in the corner.
The camera pauses at Claudia's room. You see a young, dirty haggard girl looking into the mirror. You see her lips move but hear no sound. As the camera comes closer you can hear Claudia arguing with her reflection.

Claudia: ' Leave me alone they told me you are not real!'

You hear a voice reply but you can't see the reflection at this angle.

Strange Deep Voice: 'Just imagine, everyone of these fools hanging from the ceiling up there. So beautiful'

The camera is still slowly zooming in then you catch a glimpse of something. An alien like face stares back at Claudia

What do i need to do next?
I  need to watch ahs asylum again and focus more on costumes and i will need to look at videos of real patients with personality disorder to research there mannerisms and traits.