Gothic horror evaluation

I loved how much this project challenged me as I feel I have developed my skills as a make-up artist and knowledge of the industry. I also enjoyed learning about gothic horror and the Victorian period as I have always enjoyed history, so having it made relevant to my course is twice as interesting and satisfying.
One of the most challenging parts of this project has been the continuity. Continuity never really crossed my mind until I had to do it myself and has given me a whole new respect for the make-up and hair teams that work on TV and film productions as it is so hard and requires a lot of talent and practise to be successful at. If I could re-do a part of this project I would love to have another go at the continuity to see if I could make them more similar than they were. As I had never read Great Expectations before or watched any of the films and really enjoyed learning about Miss Havishams character in particular. I really enjoyed our special effects make-up lessons with Sue and hope to be able to continue in this area on the prosthetics unit next year so I can improve on what we have already been taught.

My favourite part of the project has been Claudia and Quentin as it gave us a lot of freedom and opportunity to create almost whatever we wanted. I really liked that we were given character profiles as it helped with the design process and made it more challenging at the same time. I wish this part of the project had been longer so we could have had more time to create even better design concepts and final photographs, however I am happy with my character designs and especially proud of my Quentin images. One of my favourite lessons was in Fenella’s class where we got to recreate a gothic inspired look from the catwalk as we haven’t had any lessons like this and I think everyone really enjoyed this because there was a number of looks to choose from. I also really enjoyed Lotties hair lesson where we got to create three looks inspired by American Horror Story. At the beginning of the course and even second term I was really unconfident with hair styling and struggled creating the looks we did in class but at the end of my first year I can say I have improved a lot in practise and become a lot more comfortable and find it really enjoyable to learn.

I am feeling really positive about second year and am looking forward to finding about the projects we are going to be getting are hands in to in the first term back. I am also really excited to find out which unit I have been given for our choices as I thought this was a really good way of letting us specialise in what we are really interesting in alongside our compulsory projects.