Film opening task - Final hair /make-up choices

For filming, we let the actors do their own hair and make-up after giving them some pointers when talking about their characters. Due to us only deciding what the characters are like after casting, this meant that most of them stayed fairly similar in terms of appearance as their look already matched their character. The majority of them had light make-up on and some had their hair up, others down. The character Tessa had her hair in a side ponytail to try and convey that she was trying to look older. Overall we just wanted them to look like ordinary younger teenagers to make the opening seem more realistic.

Film Opening task - Hair/Makeup ideas

For hair and makeup, as we didn't decide to do an opening which required any wounds etc, there wasn't as much to think about other than how we wanted the characters to come across. As Sophia is the youngest character we decided that she shouldn't have any makeup to show the age gap and also that she should have her hair up potentially in pigtails or something similar. On the other hand, we thought that Tessa, the older sister, should have more obvious, excessive makeup as we wanted her to look like she was trying to appear older as well as her hair in a side ponytail, again to show that. For Billie and Emma we didn't think that obvious makeup was necessary as Billie is more of a tomboy character and Emma is more sensible. As Jessica is the more popular character, we thought that her makeup could potentially be a bit more obvious but not over the top. For their hair, we didn't have anything in particular that we wanted them to do as they are the age that we want them to be so we thought that their look fit the characters without changing much.

Film Opening task - Initial character ideas