Party Monster

Party Monsters

 

 

After watching Party Monsters the character that stood out to me the most was James St. James played by Seth Green. For a start his name is very individual and different and that's what initially got me interested. His character is very eccentric filled with a bubbly personality with clothes, style and make up to match. Almost in every scene he is wearing something different and even more bold than the last outfit. He is simply the definition of fabulous. Below is my favourite scene from Party Monsters 'How to be fabulous' .

 

 

 

From watching the clip James St. James quotes two things 'The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom' - William Blake. The quote implies that if you do things too much, to excess, you will become wise. This could suggest that doing things too much will make you learn from you mistakes therefore becoming more wise. This could imply to anything drugs, sex, alcohol or even fashion. The second quote used by him was 'Don't dream it, be it'- From the Rocky Horror Picture show. I think this quote is pretty self explanatory. This then led me to research into the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Comparing the make up from 'Party Monsters' to the Rocky horror picture show I can now understand why the reference was used. There's similar make up and style between both the film and musical. The same eccentric outfits on men and the dark eyes and red lipstick.

 

 

 

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 Looking at the film Party Monster I can see the resemblance between the character Emcee and James St James. Even though Party Monster came out in 2003 and Cabaret in 1972. Both the characters have similar characteristics such as both having eccentric personalities they both wear extravagant make up.

The make up worn in the image by Emcee above is large eye lashes red lipstick and pale face this is very similar the image below of James St James from Party Monster. James St James has a more extravagant style compared to Emcee as you find in this modern era you have to be more extravagant to get noticed whereas wearing lots of make up on a man in the 1930s was seen as extravagant.

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Otto Dix

I really enjoyed experimenting with the palette and I liked the techniques I learnt in this lesson. I hope to use this technique later in this unit.

Looking back at the final images I realised I should have stopped earlier as I slowly ruined it the more colours I added.

This is a close up image to see where I went wrong. I can see on the cheeks its all the same colour because I blended too much. But under the eye you can see brush strokes an the light blue. I really like it where the white and blue mix its like a reflection.

After a while I found that I started blending the colours in too much creating a brown colour overall. I started to realise sometimes more is less. So I know fr next time not to try and use too many colours and blend them in too much.

Using the Kryolan supracolor palette I started to mix and blend colours in trying to recreate the Otto Dix style painting. I found it really fun using the face as a canvas and I really enjoyed the free brush strokes. I started on the nose and worked my way up to the forehead. I then started looking around the eyes. I constantly looked at the painting trying to work out the different colours used.

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Practicing the Kit Kat character look

In my own time I practiced the Kit Kat look before. The first stage I cleansed my face then I started with the base. I mixed white illamasque liquid foundation with my correct skin tone foundation. I applied this all over my face and then blended with my blending brush.

The second stage was contouring. I used my contouring brush to add blusher and contour colour to the cheek bones and cheeks.

Next I added eye shadow using my Urban decay palette. I started with a soft colour and then blended out to my eyebrows. I slowly started to blend darker colours on the outside of the eye lids.

I then started adding Mac eyeliner to the lower lids and blending a little into the eye lashes. I then used two different types of mascaras on the eye lashes to create really thick lashes.

Then using the Kryolan lip pallete I applied the colour LCOO8 using a lip brush. I tried to accentuate  the lip bow to make the lips look fuller,

Finally I finished by adding the wig. The overall look I wasn't very happy with so I'm glad I practiced the look. I felt the eye shadow was too much and almost took over the entire look. So for my final face chart I will change the eye shadow. I won't bring it up to the eyebrows. Instead I want to do thin eyebrows and less eye shadow. I also want to change the lips and make them thinner.

 

 

Face and Hair Charts for Kit Kat Girls

These were a couple of Hair charts over which wig I wanted to use. But by drawing them I couldn't tell which wig would look better. So I decided to get two wigs and test them out. The top wig I felt was much more 1930s than the bottom wig. The bottom wig I felt looked very Sally Bowles especially with the strong fringe. The bottom wig I felt was a bit too contemporary for the look with the straight hair.



These were two practice face charts for the Kit Kat girls. I've written the make up I've used on the side. The top look has eye shadow going right up to the eye brow. But I haven't covered the entire eye lid with eye shadow. I felt this was quite a modern look so I made the eyebrows quite high to make it look more historical. I also gave the face quite a pale base and bright red lips to go with the character of a Kit Kat girl. I also have drawn on thick black eye lashes and some eye liner to make those eyes really dark as its meant to be a quite theatrical look.

The bottom face chart I've done the make up much darker with dark red lips and dark eye shadow. I chose to do thinner eye brows as most of the Kit Kat girls have drawn on thin eye brows. I did the same pale face but the dark lips and dark eyes I felt was a bit boring.

 

 

Here are the two wigs I wanted to try on to see which one would look better on the character. I felt the top one was very 1930s but also it was very hard to control the curls. They looked very messy. However I preferred the fringe on the top one as it had more volume and so did the hair. The bottom wig was too straight and it was hard to do anything with the wig. I felt the bottom wig would not go well with the make up and the character.

This is my final face chart for my Kit Kat character. I chose to do the high eye brow as I felt that matched the character very well. I also chose to do very thin lips as I felt most of the Kit Kat girls had thin lips from watching the film 'Cabaret'. I also chose to do the thick eye lashes to make the character look flirtatious, and sexy. Also doing smoky eyes and eye liner to make the eyes look bigger and brighter. The base is pale with blusher on the cheeks to make them look like a flushed girl.

 

Make up used for my look.

 



Scene for kit kat Girls and Comparison

 

'Tiller Girls' 1972 Kit Kat Girls

 





 

The film is significantly different from the Broadway musical. In  I Am a Camera, Sally Bowles is American , just as she is in the musical's film version. The stage version is the only version that makes her British. The character of Cliff Bradshaw was renamed Brian Roberts and made British. In the film version of Cabaret he is openly bisexual, whereas in The Berlin Stories and I Am a Camera the character is either asexual or of ambiguous sexuality. In the original stage version of Cabaret the character is notably heterosexual. The characters and plot lines involving Fritz, Natalia and Max do not exist in the stage version, and a minor character named Max in the stage version, the owner of the Kit Kat Club, bears no relation to the character in the film. Those plot points were drawn from I Am a Camera. While in the stage version Sally is a terrible singer, who thinks she's better than she is in the film she is far more skilled.

 

 

 

 



A boys hairstyle on a girl

Boys Hair on a Girl
To make a girls hair look male- First of all using a tail comb create a parting on one far side of the head. Section the crown of the head into two sections. The bottom section tuck under the top and pin  up. Using gel scrape back the top section over the bottom and use clips to pin in place. At the front of the head spray with water so its easier to stay in place. Using the comb scrape over the hair and create a slight groove as you can see below. Then put some gel in  the hair make sure you really comb in through to make it all stay in place. Any pieces of hair out of place use the comb to tuck it in.

Scene for Emcee and Comparisons

From looking at the script you can tell that the character Emcee is flamboyant from the way he enters the room 'walking hand in hand with a Gorilla'. He likes to make statement entrances.

You tube-Cabaret 1972 Wilkomen

Watching this video Emcee brings the room to life with his enthusiastic and eccentric way of pronouncing his words and his strong make up look. The starting moment in the video with him looking at his reflection is a very feminine thing to do he could be checking his make up he then turns around to look at the camera and flutters his eyelashes like a woman Maybe he does this because he wants to come across as feminine to let the audience know his sexuality. He also dances with a cane to add to his character. He comes across as very feminine with his big fake eyelashes and lots of blusher its very similar make up to the Kit Kat girls. From watching the video I also think that the way he sings very high pitch and has constant smile on his face makes him seem quite sinister almost clown like.