My initial concept and interpretation of this legend will be to portray two characters that both suffer from the "Spiders in the brain" problem, but in extremely different ways. One will literally have insects burrowing into her scalp and the other will be a mental patient who is having delusions of spiders gnawing on their brain.
Character One: Sixties Victim
The "Sixties Victim" will be the name of my first character. My concept for her is that she has been using dough as a sort of hair rat to enhance her 60s beehive hairdo to achieve maximum height, and insects have chewed the dough and slowly are gnawing away at her brain. She will be glamorous, even in death.
This character will allow me to use the knowledge I've gained in Contextual Studies about the sixties era. I will design hair and make-up that pertains to that period and research horror movies, music, paintings and literature from the time, as well as icons, MUAs and techniques.
Character Two: Bedlam Insomniac
The "Bedlam Insomniac" will be the second character to my shoot. I remembered hearing about cases of people with sleep deprivation hallucinating that spiders were covering them in my A Level Psychology lessons and though would be something really interesting to apply to an editorial make-up design. My concept will be that the character has been hallucinating due to sleep deprivation that spiders are in their brain, and therefore has ended up in an asylum.
This will require me to do the necessary research into the mental illness to see the effects that it would have on the body, and at the same time keep it contemporary and editorial. I will also need to research music videos and films that reference mental patients.
I want my shoots to make the audience feel uneasy, without necessarily using tonnes of blood and graphic gore, very like the feeling you get from Roger Ballen's photography.
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