Finalizing Main Character's Appearance

Today we filmed most of our film opening. Our main character Valentina, or Lucy (her name in the film), wore our Regina George inspired outfit. She wore a black short skirt, a pink short sleeve with a pink blazer over it, and some black flats. I think we totally nailed the popular girl look!

Another huge aspect of her appearance was achieving the possessed look with makeup and the red contacts. I ordered the red contacts on Amazon, and payed for next day shipping so that they could arrive by the filming date. Of course, our luck wasn't very good. The package got lost and we had to end up returning it without it arriving.

SO we had to think of a solution to this HUGE problem. We thought, we can't film this opening without the contacts because they totally complete the look.  So we thought of looking for stores around where we live that might sell them. We called over sic different stores, and they all said that they were available online, but we had no time for that. Then, I had the AMAZING idea of using a snapchat filter. Snapchat is a social media platform that has many different filters that change the appearance of your face. There are also COLORED CONTACTS, the usual ones that people use are blue or green, but we searched up RED colored contacts, and they were there. PROBLEM SOLVED. We were so excited and relieved because this possessed look is what truly completes the film opening.

Another small issue that we had is that Valentina didn't really want us to do the possessed makeup look on her, at the end she let us though. We struggled in putting all it on her, but in the end it looked extremely realistic. We started off by putting a layer of brown eye shadow under her eyes, then some dark red and lastly, black. We added some eyeliner in the shape of branches for the veiny look.  Here is the process down below.

As you can tell from these pictures and videos, she wasn't very excited to have all of this on her face, but as long as we got the clip for our film opening, we were set. We started off with some problems when using the snapchat filter because when you tilt the camera sideways the contacts wouldn't show up on her eyes, so what we did was he started off placing the camera vertically and then tilted it sideways slowly to make sure they wouldn't misplace her eyes. Then we filmed the ending to our film opening and it was exactly what he hoped for.