Props, Costumes, Make-up and Locations - Jamie Ellis, Candidate Number 9150

Props

I can't really see what kind of props we'd actually use in a tattoo documentary, other than the tattoos themselves. Unless we can gain access to a tattoo parlor to shoot in, then we can't film the various instruments they use to adorn people with tattoos. We still have no current word on a shop that will let us film in. At least, I don't. The other members of my team were responsible for this as they were in charge of location scouting.

Costumes

Each individual person in our documentary will have their own type of outfit. Our presenter is going to be dressed in smart casual attire. This will likely involve a suit jacket, suit trousers and an appropriate T-shirt or a shirt. If we couldn't have this outfit, then we'll have to settle for an appropriate outfit that the interviewer/presenter owns.

This is an example of the smart outfit i'd like our presenter to wear.


Ideally, we'd like to have one of our subjects represent a sub-culture that stereotypically has tattoos. So, we'd likely need an outfit that would stereotypically show off an image of that subculture.
Most subcultures do have tattoos, so it depends upon what sub-culture each subject is, to depend on the outfit they're going to have to wear. If we can't have this idea for a costume, then we would get them to wear a casual outfit that best represents their personality.

The people who we interview on the street, we obviously have no control over their outfits. If they're wearing anything offensive, or a brand name, we're going to pixelate it out.



Make-Up

Unless our subculture requires a set of make-up, for example, goths tend to have slightly whiter faces, so we'd use make-up to do that. Other than that, we'd use natural make-up, something to make them seem natural, unless they'd want to do it themselves, in which case we'd make sure that the make-up wasn't too over-bearing.

To the right is an example of natural make-up.

Locations

The locations we need or at least, what we'd like to film in, would be a tattoo parlor and we know for definite that we're going to be filming in a subjects house. We'd like to get permission to film on the street, for interviewing people and filming our presenter. Aside from that, we just need to figure out which locations we're going to film our last 2 subjects in.