Make Up & Costume Fitting

When our choreography rehearsals concluded I called in our make up artist, Iulia Maroussi, to practice her ideas with our dancer. Iulia was given the instructions that "we would want our dancer to seem alien, however, the priority is to keep her make up quite neutral. Especially when our colour palette is very neutral and earthy."

For health and safety measures we asked our dancer to bring in her own make up. Thankfully she has several metallic versions of earthy colours. Iulia managed to experiment around with eye shadow and found a gradient of beige and browns were the most effective look for our dancer. After applying all of the eye make up, Iulia powdered our dancer's face so that it would reduce shine from the lighting.

The final outcome got the approval of the team as we didn't want to go for a very dramatic look. Our dancer showed us several photos of her experience with stage make up, which had quite a bold look that we weren't after. These designs were bold as they were designed to be seen from a stage: from several meters away. The team felt that as the camera will have the opportunity to do quite a few close ups, it might be too much to have very bold make up. 

After the make up experiments we had our dancer fit into her costume. The costume was a black leotard and a black pair of high-waisted shorts which both came from ASOS. Thankfully it fitted her well however we do need to order a back-less bra for her. We didn't anticipate that she wouldn't have one. This is of no concern as one is currently on its way and is expected to arrive before the shoot.

Al decided that we should let her hair down as it provides us with the opportunity to make her movements seem more fluid.