Drama Class

The last makeup technique we worked on was soaping eyebrows. So you take a bar of soap…dab it in some water (not too much water though) and continually rub the soap bar against your eye brow. Over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over. and over…etc etc. Until your eyebrows are so covered in soap they feel like they aren’t there and that you have shaved them off. Be warned, this process takes a lot of time! You then have to cover the soaped eyebrows with skin colored makeup (both liquid and powder) so you don’t have eyebrows anymore! :D

I had a really hard time with this because my hair is coarse and dark. It took forever to soap my eyebrows! The first time I tried it I didn’t completely soap my eyebrows over before I started applying makeup so it didn’t work for me. Next time I do this makeup technique again I will have to make sure I completely soap my eyebrows well

Yay fantasy makeup!! I chose to do the Queen of Hearts makeup from Alice in Wonderland (2010). I thought this would be really cool and really fun to try because it is really crazy makeup! 

Obviously for the face, I had to cake my entire face with white mkaeup

For the eye brows and beauty mark, i used a thin brush with liquid black makeup

I used blue eye shadow for the eyes 

I used red makeup and a brush to do the lips

I also wanted to use mascara to make my eye lashes very dramatic like in the picture above

I love this phase of makeup! However, I wish i had pancake makeup for the white because it took a really long time to put enough makeup on my face so that it was actually white and not my darker skin tone. I was surprised to find how much of the skills we learned in class came in handy with this section. It was really fun :)

To make someone look old, you have to accentuate where their natural wrinkles will be with brown makeup and then with white makeup to create a depth to the wrinkles

It’s good to use furrow lines, crows feet, and smile wrinkles. In order to outline my own potential wrinkles, i had to make a lot of silly faces in the mirror (hehehe), which i then had to draw on with a brown pencil or with brown makeup and a brush. I then had to brush white makeup underneath and blend it to make it look like depth with my wrinkles. 

I also considered my bone structure and the wrinkles my great grandmother had since we had very similar facial features. I noticed we both have high cheek bones so my face should probably look a little hollow with my skin looking like its clinging to my cheek bones and drooping. I will do this by putting brown along my cheeks and blending them. 

I had some trouble making my forehead lines with wrinkles because I couldn’t make my forehead crease…I guess I based those lines on what my grandmother’s wrinkles look like because we have similar facial features

Stage makeup has to be big and enhanced so that even audience members sitting far away from the stage can make out what features you’re trying to show them. It has to look believable to them from far away. In order to do this, you have to make it dramatic and overstated. 

Black eyes were interesting to do. I thought it would be a little easier than it was. I noticed quite a few things:

- stabbing and smearing makeup on is not affective. Dabbing gently with a makeup wedge is however a better approach

- the point of impact shouldn’t look perfect. If the shape is really defined ideally then it doesn’t look legitimate

- i really need to be careful about blending the makeup well so that it looks legitimate

- the yellow and green shouldn’t be too accentuated but if they’re not there at all, then the bruise isn’t complete

- the more practice i did, the better i got! 

Overall, I thought it was pretty cool :)

Unit Question: How does the way I see other people affect how I see them?

Lyons

Don’t know ya to well,

ol’ Pop is a stranger

ever since i was young

i had ta keep myself out of danger 

I didn’t hafta stay

I been liven’ without ya

Only see ya on pay day

for my extra 10 dollas 

But come on pop

come see my show

my pride and joy 

ain’t about playin’ the music

but livin’ like i do 

now come on pop

come see my show 

i been livin’ without ya

comin’ to see ya for my extra ten dollas 

Family

Betrayal

Duty

Themes:

Progress of the Civil Rights Movement

North vs. South

Racism

Discrimination within the play

Perspective; particularly perspective of those affected by racism

Masculinity; what in Troy’s mind makes a man? strength, pride, ability to take his responsibilities

But what is it for us? Power? Fertility? Strength? Ability to support and provide?

…Emotional support is kind of ignored but in the female perspective emotional support and affection is a big deal; “someone there to listen”, “emotionally in check”, someone who is willing to show love and protect that love is more manly than someone who can’t say that they love

Troy talkes about his father…he remembers his father made mistakes raising him…Did Troy repeat these mistakes? Yes, he did. So the hope for Cory is that he won’t repeat those mistakes, that he’ll break the cycle. 

Do you see the similarities between you and your parents or your parents and their parents characteristics? Somethings are cycles. 

Moral of the play: break the cycle, don’t let your life be led by others, don’t quit after one loss

Why is it so affective, more so than anyone else, when your parents tell you they’re disappointed in you?  You want to salvage that pride and that need to make others proud.

Fences is a father-son play because throughout the play the Maxson male line tries to make their father proud and show them that they’re better than that (except Lyons, doesn’t really affect him) Rose tells Cory: You’ll always be like your father

Would Troy be proud of Cory at the end of the play? If he is, he never would’ve said it.

What did Troy say he wanted for Cory but what did he REALLY want for Cory? I don’t think Troy wanted Cory to fail like he did but he was so angry and broken that he couldn’t understand . They were enemies because Troy didn’t want Cory to show him what he could have had in life and what he “should” have had. 

Mortality; Troy taunts death in a lot of monologues. It’s like he challenges God and fate and death, even takes pride in these challenges..and then he dies. He dies of a heart attack; IRONY. Arteries stop pumping blood and heart stops when you have a heart attack. Symbolism: vessels that connect the heart = people in his life; all clotted up because none of their relationships are  healthy…they just stop pumping; it stops working. Of all the things to stop in his body…it’s his heart 

Gates of heaven open as wide as God’s “closet” so at the very end Troy finds his peace and rest

How do we find out that Troy dies? The funeral. Why don’t we see Troy die? he’s the main character. How does the omission of his death affect the audience? impersonal connection; it would be far more tragic to have to see him die rather than having to hear about someone die.