Evaluation

Evaluation for Special Effects Prosthetic Piece

22^th May 2014

For this project I had to design, manufacture and apply a full facial prosthetic make-up piece based on one of the following themes.

·         Ancient One

·         Demonic Nightmare

·         Strange Beauty

·         Industrial Oddity

·         Weird Beast

·         Metamorphosis

·         The Future

I had to record each stage of my work, onto a live blog that can be seen by the public. I decided as well as making the facial piece, that I would also make a pair of ears for my design. For the assessment I had two hours to fully apply the prosthetic and apply the make-up and costume.

To write this evaluation I am going use the Driscoll Cycle reflective model.

Driscoll Cycle of Reflection 2007

What? – A description of the event

On my blog I have written reflections for each stage of this process. However I will quickly summarise each of the stages I have carried out:

·         Character Design

·         Life-Casting the Model

·         Moulding: Part 1

·         The Sculpt

·         Moulding: Part 2

·         Casting the Appliance

·         Application

All of these processes were completed in college during lessons. We spent one to two lessons on each process and three weeks on the sculpting.

On the day of the assessment I arrived at 8 o’clock so I was ready to set up as soon as the classroom opened. I made sure my model was already in the clothes I wanted him to wear ready for the photo shoot. I started by applying the ears, which I had already completely re-coloured. Once I was happy with the application I moved onto applying the face piece. This I had not pre-coloured but had put the pax paint on as a base. When it was all applied and finished I went up to the studio with my model to get his pictures taken.

So What? – An analysis of the event

When I first got the brief for this project I found it extremely daunting mainly because I had never done a blog before and I’m not the best person when it comes to technology. However looking back at this I don’t really know what I was worried about. Once I had been shown how the blog works and had time to look at it at home I soon became familiar with it.

On further reflection, when I received the brief I was extremely excited to learn the process of the project and see the final piece develop.

I felt very nervous on the day of the assessment because I was worried about the two hour time limit not being enough. I felt very anxious the whole way through the assessment in case something had gone wrong. However I did get finished on time even though a bit more time would have been useful to add one or two final touches.

Once all the prosthetic pieces were applied I was very happy with the finish, I felt the edges were great and had blended really well into the skin. The ears were my favourite part and had turned out exactly how I had wanted. However as the author Debreceni (2013, p.32) said

“As artists, we will never be completely satisfied with our work”

The only thing I was slightly disappoint with was that I had wanted to add tattoo’s using an airbrush up the neck and on the hands but before the assessment I changed my mind as I knew there wouldn’t be time as I had the ears to apply as well.

Still I was thrilled with the finish and felt as it was only the second time applying a prosthetic piece (I’d only had one practise) it had gone really well and I am proud of the finish, even more so when I saw the final pictures taken by the photographer.

Now What? – Proposed actions following the event

After doing this process I would feel confident to do it again and would really like to create another prosthetic piece. As the author Debreceni (2013, p.33) said

“There will always be someone who can teach us something new”

This was something new which I was taught and I really enjoyed learning it and I felt for a final project it was a great one.

These are the final pictures.