Our opening title sequence involves a girl waking up in a hospital unsure of where she is. We wanted to portray her as ill, weak and vulnerable, inspired by the film Contagion (2011). We want our character to look pale and plain like in the image to the right. Also by using dark colours like purples and blacks under the eyes to look like bags we are making the character look tired and unhealthy.
Also during out kidnapping scenes our character will have subtle make up to make her look more feminine, girly and innocent. We want her to appear attractive in order to appeal to our male audiences. We used the appearance and makeup of Drew Barrymore from the Scream (1996) opening title sequence as inspiration.
We took inspiration for our zombie make up from the film 28 Weeks Later (2007). We thought the zombies in this film looked very convincing and scary. We chose to use red contact lenses to re-create the zombie image in the film as we thought it represented the zombies as being blood hungry and completely inhumane. Also as I was casted to play the zombie we thought the use of red contact lenses would cause my eyes to stand out greatly from my fair hair and pale complexion. Also by using lots of blood on the zombies face, like in the picture to the left, it compliments the contact lenses and causes the audience to fear the character more.
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