The Black Swan

We got a new brief, and we had to choose a film, so obviously out of the choice given, i went for the Black Swan, it's such a good film. The reason I chose The Black Swan was because I found the whole concept of being forced into good and bad a bit confusing at first and I wanted to learn more and understand the meaning of the movie. When I thought of the Black Swan I also found it easy to find inspiration from and it really appealed to me. After finishing the film for a second time, I went straight on the internet and after having seen some great images on Tumblr I instantly knew what I wanted to do. 

The film is about a young woman who is a ballet dancer, and a very dedicated one at that. Shes a good dancer but she's too worried about being perfect to let herself go. She goes through a dark journey that the people around her force her into, but being willing because she strives to impress and wants very badly to get the lead role of the Swan, which means playing both the Innocent swan and the dark side of the swan. She becomes disturbed because of a chain of events.

All pictures from Tumblr: Black Swan search

My ideas are to have a 3D head, whether, I get it from a shop, find one in a hair salon, buy online or make it out of paper mache it must be smooth and able for paint to work on it. I've been to the hair salon in the college and they've told me that they have spares that they could give me for free, which is really useful for me.

I plan to paint the head, similar to that of Natalie Portman's when she plays the Black swan, with the red eyes, deep red lips and contrasting colours on her face.

I want the idea to be that she is being controlled by the dark swan which is going to be a hat on her head - so it's almost in her mind kind of thing. I'm going to make the swan hat myself, then have it photographed when it's complete.