SOME MORE SET DESIGN

I have created small grave stones to put on top of my hills. I made them out of cardboard and plan to paint them all different shades of grey. I also made a prototype tree which I am now going to work from. I plan to make trees similar to the one in the pictures but wider. I am also going to take some twigs from my garden and put them along side my handmade trees. I am going to light them from behind.

I haven't yet painted the church doors as I wanted to wait for the whole thing to dry to decide what I wanted to do with the front. I have thought about painting the doors brown. I added a small cross on top of the church.

I used grass which I had previously been given by a friend in my art group. The grass was Warhammer static grass which was priced at £5 per tub. I realized that it would cost me around £50 to cover all of the my desired space with the grass. I found a much more effective and cheaper way of making the grass. I added green and blue ink to sawdust. 

The outcome was absolutely fantastic :)

MORE ALICE IN ZOMBIELAND

I filmed on Monday 21st November in my back garden. I kept the colourful theme to the tea party scene but added a lot of gore to it. I bought lots of bright cakes and put them on a cake stand. I wanted to keep the original feel to the Alice in Wonderland movie, I also used cut up pieces of meat to look like body parts which the zombies are feeding on. I used jam tarts which immediately made me think of The Queen of Hearts. I made blood using syrup and food colouring which I added to the meat. I also used porridge oats to make the blood look thicker

Makeup and costume!

I mixed blue, purple and black eyeshadow together to create the bags under the characters eyes. I also used the blood that I made for the meat on my characters faces. 

Daniel played the Mad Hatter in my music video. He was also the Mad Hatter in the Alice in Zombieland photoshoot earlier this year.

The White Rabbit - As the song which I am using for my music video is called 'White Rabbit' I used the rabbit as the main character for my music video. I borrowed a clock from school and attached it to a piece of string which I hung from the rabbits neck. The rabbit is the only character who isn't a zombie so I didn't put the blood on Lauren's face. I drew the nose and whiskers on her face using eyeliner pen. I took the same costume from the previous Alice in Wonderland shoot for my music video also.

The Queen of Hearts - My friend Jasmin played the Queen of Hearts and She wore the costume which I used for the Alice in Zombieland photoshoot.

I began to film at around 4pm, I really enjoyed getting to direct my actors as it's something that I don't get to do very often. Daniel almost lead the way through the tea party scene because He had acted as a zombie for one of my projects before. It begins to get dark at around 4.30 so I knew I would have to do my filming over two different days. I basically wanted my characters to act like zombies. 

Set design

I am making a church for my set out of a cardboard box. I covered the box with mod-rock and cut doors out of the cardboard. I also made a pointed roof for my church.

I found that making the roof for my church was the hardest part of the church as I had to use 4 different bits of cardboard. After I stuck the parts together, I covered the roof in mod-rock. The mod-rock hardens together and holds a solid shape.

FRUITURE

A few pictures from my most recent stop frame - Fruiture. I completed this project in about an hour. A lot of work goes into Claymation but I found that this project was simple yet effective.

The only trouble I had with this project was the positioning of the tripod. I set it up right infront of the cooker around dinner time. 

I peeled a part of the banana for each shot. Balancing the banana upright was also difficult.