Final Looks - Claudia + Quentin

Claudia Moodboard

Theme: Power, dominance, beauty, blood thirsty.

Claudia

Quentin Moodboard

Theme: Entrapment, vulnerability, innocence, disturbed, scared.

Quentin

My Final Idea For The Music Video:

Main characters:

Claudia - The obsessive, dominant girlfriend who has the intensions to keep her victim (boyfriend) tied up for the pleasure of herself only. Her obsession becomes too extreme to the extent she has literally tied Quentin up after he has attempted to escape.

Quentin - The feeble imaginary boyfriend of Claudia. Quentin is timid and fears for his own life, which Claudia has full control over. He has attempted to escape Claudia's obsessive grasp over him but has failed numerous times, resulting in being caught up in rope.

The song:

Quentin Designs

Makeup Designs:

1.

This first Quentin design is fairly simple but makes a statement. The colours create the impression of quite a strong character. The lips are dark and bold and quite unusual for a male character as the lips aren’t necessarily usually a feature of the main focus. The eyes have a mask-like effect with pale powdered red across them. This could also represent something that Quentin is hiding behind in fear, or possible red to represent danger or in danger. I like this design because the eye mask makes him look a bit like a super hero, which could contrast Claudia’s villain role. But I feel that the lips were too much so I would like to verge away from this being the focus.

2.

This look is very, very dark and has an Adam’s Family feel about it. The contouring is heavily created in black to hollow out the pale face making it look like a skeleton. There is a very heavy focus around the eyes and eyebrows making him look quite deathly. The sides are where I have extended the hair in a geometric shape to accentuate the hair line to create structure. The lips have a slight pinched effect in dark red. I feel that this look may be too heavy for Quentin.

3.

This look is simple but effective with the eyes heavily darkened to make it look mysterious. The rest of the face is left pale and flawless with no colour on the lips or cheeks. The eyes are fully blackened to make his identity uncertain as the eyes are a strong feature of the face that defines you. I have blurred out this part of Quentin’s identity because Quentin is imaginary and often changes in Claudia’s imagination.

4.

With this look, I have created a very strong brow which creates an angry expression. They are dark and heavy and create the main focus of the look. The eyes are darkened around the edges too. The face is then lightly contoured with black powder to make the bone structure more prominent and to make Quentin more handsome. I feel that the eyebrows may look too angry rather than the vulnerable look which is what I am after instead.

5.

I have chosen this look for Quentin as I feel it captures darkness and slight vulnerability in one. The face has the effect of being hollowed out with use of strong contouring with black at the cheekbones, nose and temples. The base is paler than normal to create a gothic look. The eyebrows are bold and quite similar to Claudia’s as I’d like the two looks to work together nicely in the music video. Again, strong eyebrows are on trend, so they are a main focus for this look. The eyes are darkened and blend out softly. The lips have a deep red pinch in the centre which make the lips look smaller and don’t draw too much attention away from the eyes. Alongside this look, I will be using rope to tie up Quentin to suggest how Claudia is in full power of their relationship. This is not in a cruel way, but in a psycho and obsessive manner.

Hair Designs:

1.

This hairstyle is very slick, prim and proper. There is a high shine on the hair, which would be created using mousse, shine spray and heat applied through use of a hairdryer. The style is understated and kept simple not to draw attention away from the face.

2.

This design has a sharp side parting with one side pulled forward and slicked over half of the face. This look creates mystery and makes Quentin seem shy. The hair will be kept slick with the use of the techniques as above.

3.

This look is quite wild and out of control but has a sense of innocence to it. The hair looks youthful, full and quite cute with all the random curls, which are separated into a side parting. I like the concept of Quentin looking innocent, but I feel it doesn’t seem dark enough and doesn’t look suited to Claudia’s look.

4.

This design has the modern short back and sides style with a defined sideburn created with coloured spray. The quiff is soft and left a bit untamed. This would be created by applying heat to the roots to create lift and then fixed using hairspray. The look is nice, but not striking or dark enough for the look I’m after.

5.

After choosing my fantastic model, who has their hair cut into a mohican, I decided that I will use this to my advantage. I am going to use the hair in the centre to elongate the face by creating an upward volume which is sleek and slicked into a quiff going all the way down to the back of the neck. To create this, mousse will be applied whilst applying heat to create lift at the roots. The hair will then be set into large backward curls, once cool they will be brushed back to combine together. Shine spray will be applied to create a polished finish. This look is ideal as it is simple and with an edge, which I feel will suit Claudia’s look and the theme of the music video I have in mind.

Claudia Designs

Makeup Designs:

1.

For this look, I am focusing on creepy yet feminine. With the main colour being pink and lines to create the illusion of long eyelashes, you would think it all sounds very pretty. Instead, it looks psychotic and insane. The contouring makes the face more defined and the pale skin tone looks ghostly. The bright glossy lips look entising, which emphasises the femme fatale concept. The eyebrows are thin and look overplucked and creepy. This look screams Halloween rather than fashion horror, which isnt really what Im after. Im after something current that has a hint of sexiness.

2.

For this look I wanted to try something futuristic and minimal lash detail around the eyes. This is definitely a different approach to the first look I tried as I wanted to test different possible themes. For this look I used Katy Perry’s E.T music video as inspiration. It slightly diverges off the gothic horror theme that Claudia would have gained from horror films, but aliens are scary right?! The eyebrows are higher than naturally positioned and create an angry expression. Even though this look had potential, I feel that it’s possibly too far off the concept I am aiming for and would like something a little more gothic.

3.

This look shows elements of beauty with the contouring of the cheekbones, shaping of the eyes and mascara on the eyelashes. In this, I have decided to stick with dark shades but wanted to incorporate some colour and therefore I chose to use purple. The look is striking which creates a dominant feel from the bold lips and eyebrows. This look was inspired by the evil queen from Disney films, but the fact that it’s inspired by Disney may be enough to suggest that this look isn’t ideal for my idea of Claudia.

4.

With this look I have again chosen to focus on the illusion of large lashes and would possibly create my own lashes to create this effect in 3D. This lips are larger than the natural lip shape to create an emphasised and oversized lip. The eyes and lips together make a statement and create emphasis on the most feminine features of the face. The blue lips make the look more fashion forward and current. The look isnt quite how I would picture Claudia as I feel it is too eccentric.

5.

Focusing heavily on the eyebrows with this look, I wanted to create a large impact. The design almost reminds be of antlers which are often associated with stags which are very dominant, as they use their antlers as a weapon to be the alpha male. I kind of like this idea as it represents how Claudia is the dominant in her relationship with Quentin. I’ve added a soft feline flick on the eyes to make her look more feminine, not to draw away from her gender despite her role. The lips have an ombre/reversed pinched effect which is softer than a full lip.

6.

With this design I wanted to go with something that is very harsh and evil looking. The strongly angled eyebrows create an instant aggressive expression and the spikes on the lower lip look dangerous and fearful. This is how I’d expect Quentin to view Claudia. Rather than being a ‘villain’ here, I feel that Claudia represents more of a monster as the spikes slightly remind me of sharp teeth. This design has been inspired by the film ‘Jaws’ as I feel she looks shark-like, with the angle of the brows and the red blood thirsty lips.

6.

Here, I have chosen a typical female vampire look with the detail on the forehead. The contouring is striking against the pale skin, to create a harsh and defined bone structure. The eyes are sultry and feminine, but the eyebrows are bold and defined. I can see Claudia with this look and Quentin is the victim she will suck blood from. The lips are heavily glossed and red which reminds me of blood and makes the look a little bit gory. Although I really like this look, I feel that Claudia should be her own character and not developed from an existing character.

6

I have chosen this design as my final look. I feel it takes aspects from some of my other looks to create something which is soft horror. I imagine Claudia to be very much in love with Quentin, so she isn't going to want to kill him, she is just dominant over him and maybe is a little too in love, in the sense she is obsessive! With this idea in mind, I imagine Claudia would want to feel attractive in front of Quentin and therefore she would like to make herself more appealing rather than horrifying. So the makeup look I have gone for is dark, yet seductive and feminine. The eyes are dark and smokey, with emphasis on fluttering lashes. With the contouring, I intend to make the face shaped in a flattering way, which highlights her bone structure. Bearing in mind current trends with makeup, I have opted for the ‘power brow’ and heavily applied black to create a bold structured set of eyebrows. The lips are scarlet red which oozes sexiness and the gloss makes it that little bit more horror. I can imagine this look being inspired from horror films as the femme fatale character, who entices her victims, but isn’t too over the top. I have opted for subtlety with this look, Claudia’s and Quentin’s relationship in mind, as I don’t want her to be portrayed as the villain, just slightly evil instead!

Hair Designs:

1.

For this look, I have chosen to create a harsh slicked back ponytail. The hair is scraped off away from the face to create a harsh effect by pulling the skin back. The hair is very sleek and perfect, with aid of mousse, hairspray and shine spray. The securing of the ponytail is hidden by a strand of hair wrapped around. The ponytail has height and volume, but finishes in a sharp point.

2.

This look has contrasting textures, metaphorical for Claudia's personality. The sleek centre parting is smooth and suggests a calmer and more refined personality. The backcombed ends suggest her crazy and out of control personality. The hair looks like a lion's mane, which suggests her dominance and control, being the leader of the relationship. The top section will be created using heat and mousse, then tightly secured behind the ears. The rest of the hair will then be back combed and heavily textured to create volume.

3. 

This look has been inspired by Lara Croft from Tomb Raider. The hair is harshly and tightly braided along the scalp into a centre parting, which is pulling the skin back on the face, to create a harsh facial expression. The ends of the braids are then sectioned off and plaited into three. Again, the hair would be slick and neat using mousse.

4.

This is my chosen look for Claudia's hair. The hair has been put into three sections, the top section being a braid starting from the hair line, working backwards away from the face. The hair is slick and smoothed out using heat. The braided section has mousse applied to avoid fly away hairs and to neaten the look. This look is developed from the braided look, combined with a vampire inspired look. I want the hair to look simplistic and sexually attractive. I feel that there is a reoccurring trend in music videos where the main female characters are usually very attractive. Therefore, I want to portray this with Claudia as a Femme Fatale.