Researching Makeup Update

The main research for this project will go into the dead body. At this stage it's important to consider what actual injury's  the dead actor will have. When I see the dead actor in my head, I see him as very pale in his face, with extremely dark eye shadows, and a clear wound that indicates that he has been killed, whilst still wearing his work cloths, I don't want to overdo the makeup, and will want to test different possibility's before the shoot. Our group found a video online for the face. to get a rough picture of what we want the actor to look like.





For the wound we decided to go for a small bullet wound between the eyes. We are would like one with just a bit of blood comming out of it that its not too overkill. I think in combination with the whited out face that it will look really good together. Below is a tutorial of how we could do the make up. In the video I find the blood poring out of the woman looks too wet, I would like the blood to look more dried out to fit the dead for a while look.

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Update:

Our teachers have looked through all of our projects again and have informed our group that we could possibly get a make up artist. They gave the phone number of a professional make up artist called Jackie Whitney, that groups in our school have used a few times in the past years. We where told that we would have to arrange for her to meet us if we would like to use her. We didn't really know how to approach her as none of us had really done this before, but we just went for it. The phone call went very well, she said that she should have time, and will get us back and we briefly explained what we would like her to do. We agreed to keep in contact through email where I sent her the videos above. She quite soon replied saying that she would have time on our shoot day, and regarding the video she said that she could easily do it, she agreed with me that the blood in the video of the bullet wound is a bit too wet, she also gave us advised us to go easy on the paleness, and to not shadow it out as much as in the video. She recommended a slight skin whitening, and making the lips look slightly blue. We definitely trust her opinion and will follow her advice.