The reasons for this are simple: that the individual has to look natural to apply to the audience on a personal level. These reasons are for the same reason as why they choose to a natural location making it apparent where it is being shot.
My actor is singular, he is alone in the house and is wearing a little makeup around his eyes, this is sed in a technique to make him look very tired. I found this technique when watching an extra for Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1. When making the film there is a scene were 'Bella Swan' (played by actress Kristen Stewart), is heavily pregnant, and the pregnancy, makes her very tired and ill. Although I am not trying to make him appear pregnant, I used the technique to make him look tired to my advantage, it makes the film trailer feel like he is worn out and creates questions.
- How long is this supernatural spirit going to go on?
- Is he going to exit this house when he leaves?
- Why do we not see any images of his girlfriend and only his daughter?
- Is this supernatural spirit his former girlfriend?
These questions were what I found when I did preliminary research onto my work, and when asking my audience how I would answer this, they said that it would be to do with the amount of make-up that is being used. The young girl needs to look scared, tired but also very bleak.
Children are often seen as very scary in films also.
The reason I have used children in my trailer is to use supernatural experience to it's best, I feel thatthey have almost become a convention as it is very unlikely you will find one without the underlying issue of children along the line... The reason they are involved is because they see the world and nice and therefore are very gullable, making them easy to become posessed. This is going to be much easier if it is achieved through makeup, as seen in the first photo from "orphan" the makeup makes her look very pale, sheepish but also the face of somebody who has no soul... maybe she has had a deal with the devil. the photo underneath although in black and white, we can tell the child has being edited to look perfect, not a hair out a place, this however could mean that potentially he is not a child at all. Children are often seen as messy, or wild but this time it is seen that the child has perfect hair and makeup... has he being possessed? in fact yes, yes he has.
In conclusion for my makeup ideas, I feel that for my male adult actor, looking very natural is the key, it is casual and very easy to see yourself within the narrative however, my child actor has to look "perfect" and therefore demonic. Symbols of the devil will be written ont eh walls and a scene were she is being stretched is enhancing this.
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