Introduction to Claudia and Quentin: A love of the Dark

We have been given a weird and wonderful brief for our next project this term, it will give us an opportunity to be creative in thinking, writing and creating full horror looks. 

I have included the brief below, and in my next post you will be able to see what I have chosen from the options below and my interpretation of: A Love Of The Dark.
and the character descriptions for Claudia and Quentin.

We will need to find two models/actors who are willing to be made over and photographed in mid-shot and close up and are reflecting your interpretation of Claudia and Quentin. I have chosen my classmate and flatmate to do these.

•The Walking Dead

•American Horror Story

•Dexter

•True Blood

•Bates Motel

•Buffy the Vampire Slayer

•Vampire Diaries

•Penny Dreadful

•In the Flesh

•Being Human

•Hemlock Grove

•Hannibal

•Special delivery

•Blue coat

•Hydro bath

•White rose

•Ascend

•Glass prison

•Red rave

•White rave

•Taste

•Bandages

•Fork

•Stitches

•Save us

•Hellevator

•Slipping

•Veiled

•Spinning

•Exam

•The Woods

•Spiral

•Awakening

•Door

•Face

• Create a 5-minute presentation featuring 10 slides: Explain why you have chosen your TV series and how you see the 2 characters on screen and how you intend to represent your final solutions referencing your 2 key words. Discuss how each look will impact on viewing figures and audience demographics. Use the draft PPT we have prepared to guide you - see below

Claudia is a girl in her twenties. As a child she was left alone to develop with little parental guidance and through her relationship with T.V. movies developed an unhealthy relationship with Horror films, believing this to be the way life really is.

All the scenes take place in various parts of Claudia’s apartment, which is European in style with
a great deal of kitsch décor. She is agoraphobic and is kept in touch with the outside world by her neighbours who provide her with her every day requirements.  She models herself on a variety of girls often twisting her look to suit whichever film she is watching at the time and there is often
a nod to the main character in the current film within her appearance.

The script portrays her as psychotic and there is always the feeling that although her character is scripted/can be seen as humorous, danger is just around the corner.   However all this is normal to Claudia and she is of a cheerful disposition in this mad world of hers.

Claudia has an imaginary boyfriend, Quentin, who is long suffering and a constant disappointment to her. They don’t live together but he visits regularly and they talk on the telephone if he can’t get in to see her. As he is part of her imagination his appearance changes to suit her mood. Sometimes he will be a David Beckham looking guy, whilst in another scene he will appear as a Pete Docherty type, Daniel Craig type or a Hollyoaks Babe. If she is having a bad day he will morph into an uncouth couch potato chav with all that brings with it.

He is as into the horror film genre as she and into role-playing to suit her whims and moods.

Claudia has a paranoid suspicion that he is constantly having affairs behind her back and keeps him firmly under her thumb, sometimes restraining him or keeping him prisoner in one of the rooms.