Tempa Productions: The Antagonist

For our antagonist, we decided to do our killer idea number 1 because idea number 2 looks more of a zombie effect and also because our horror genre is slasher we wanted the antagonist to have that gory, realistic effect to inflict fear in our audience. Slasher films typically involve a pschopathic killer, they are usually a person who has suffered or is traumatised from some sort of abuse. The idea that the antagonist have a zipper through the middle of his face looks as though he has been mutilated which could have been from his past therefore tells a story. An example of a famous slasher antagonist is Freddie Cruger of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' he is a disfugered dream stalker and uses a glove armed with razors. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured faced which shows that he has a disturbing past through his makeup.

This is the final makeup for our killer, we did not him to look too over the top with too much effects as this will be shown in the trailer and because our trailer is opened to everyone.

Therefore to start this process, our antagonist will be played by another student. I practiced how to do the 'zipper face' through youtube tutourials. To create this effect i used the following products:

For this experiment we used another student to practice the antagonists makeup on. We chose him because he is a male which in horror movies they are seen as more empowering therefore, most of the horror movies have males to play the antagonist. Our actor is tall and well built, the main features of a male which is why we chose him a our antagonist.

This is a 10" zipper that I chose closes to the actors skin tone and long enough to go though the middle of the killers face. I will be applying this using a brush with latex because it is harmless and will be safe on the actor.

After applying the Zipper I used tissue to create a scar-like texture by sticking it down with latex and going over it a few times so it could look lumpy and destroyed skin.

These are the make up which consists of setting powder, foundation and a sponge to apply it. The foundation was used after the latex dry to blend it to the actors skin tone for a realistic effect. I then used the sponge and stippled the foundation to the rest of his skin. After that I set the foundation and the rest of his skin with powder.

I then used the blood in between the zips for a bloodied mouth as art of the makeup seen on the zip mouth tutorial. I am looking to do the blood not too drippy, but more dry to make it seem as though it was there for a while and has not been washed away.