The characters make up on the fourth day of filming linked to other films

We wanted to use strong and powerful make up so that the audience would be able to simply understand the character's emotions without too much acting. We used certain colours such as black and red on the antagonists and also to represent danger. Agnes, who is the protagonist, has a pale face and black bags to show that she is like a ghost and also tired as well as miserable. However, she wears a lot of pink colours to represent that she is still a child and never really grew up. This can be linked to the mise-en scene of her bedroom as it is pink and there are children's toys everywhere.

 

We focused the make up inspiration on the character's in Tim Burton's 'Sweeney Todd.' This is because the main characters have pale faces with dark eyes to represent the genre of the film, as well as their personalities. We used similar techniques to represent different character's emotions. For example, Agnes' mum and dad have pale faces and we used the colours black, brown and red to represent that they did not mean well. Agnes was fairly similar, as she had a pale face to show she was upset in her life, and had bags under her eyes to show she was tired. The difference between the character's were the red used on the parent's (e.g. red lips and red used for bruising and under the eyes) and the clothes they wore. We dressed the parents in dark colours to reflect their personalities, whereas Agnes was mainly dressed in pinks and blues to represent she was the protagonist and she was still only young.