doctor who 2011 trailer

yes I know I'm super Geek whilst seeing the new trailer of doctor who!, that has been realised today I noticed there is a clown sat at the edge of the bed! then noticed it was actually the doctor its 39 seconds in to the trailer please look!

the costume

Finally found the costume I'm going to be getting for this shoot it has taken a long time to find the one I'm happy with.

my final ideas

I have been thinking about my idea of how what I am doing 

image 1: childs bedroom with the over sized clown in a rocking chair (hopefully) I have the location sorted and confirmed that I don't need to worry about location lighting kit as one of my friends have some that I can borrow.

Image 2: one of the clown right in the middle of a pile of teddys that makes you take time to find out what you are looking for.

Image 3: A clown coming out of the wardrobe with a mirror hanging on the door where we see a reflection of  a scared child 


Image 4: clown out side behind a white bedding hanging on the clothes line where you can see the top of his hat or hair and balloons and feet popping out, with a child going toward the clown to see whats happening.


I am currently still thinking about the final image I am still debating and not coming out with any good idea's!  

clown shoot 2

well this shoot was a disaster I had the studio book for over night and when I got there was a 3rd year still doing a shoot and they asked to use it for an extra 30mins and when I finally got in the room was a mess and the background was broken :/ so once I got the studio clean I set up the light got everything to where it needed to be so I started on the make up putting on clown makeup is not easy as it looks! once the make up was done we got up I put the tigger on my camera and it totally failed I moved the lighting around changed the battery's on the device but nothing worked! so after doing all that work I had to use the flash on my camera but I don't really like the way the images have turned out but I have asked the girls would they be willing to do the shoot again and they are happy with doing another shoot here are some of the images

krusty the clown

Krusty the clown everybody knows and loves this misunderstood loud mouth clown that kids of Springfield love. 

Stephen king's IT

thinking about the reason why I chose to do clowns I think it is all down to this film the reason being I saw this film as a child with my younger sister and of course scared the hell out if us, I mean come on killer clown! re-watching the film as a adult its still scary but not as scary as I remember it :/ the clown penny wise is the main character played by Tim Curry the colours in the film change from bright to dark quite a few times in duration of the film which I think creates more suspense.

   

the Joker

I would say that the joker from batman must be one of the most famous characters that has been bought out of a comic strip. in 2008 Heath Ledger played the Joker  which is one of the most famous concept of the Joker, this role was also played by another legend Jack Nicholson.

   

Captain Spaulding from Robzombie's house of 1000 corpses and devils rejects

Captain Spaulding is the clown character from the twisted mind of one Rob Zombie. Rob is a amazing singer and film director but whilst watching this it was a total mind blowing craziness at times I didn't know where to look half of the time but that what I love about a proper horror film but lets get back to Captain Spaulding he is painted up as a clown but at the same time wearing a hat that uncle sam wears so its a strange combination but it works.

video of Captain Spaulding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig6c12giWzk

looking at clowns that are fictional Binky the Clown from Garfield and friends

so Garfield was one of my all time favourite cartoon as a kid I still love him now so I remembered there was a clown on this show and the fact is he is really annoying! 

Mump and Smoot

Mump and Smoot are two horror base clowns they turn convention of clowns up side  down in a dark humorous macabre way.

  

Bozo the clown

I haven't actually heard of this clown but I have just found him looking online he was a clown on American TV during the 1960s he has the classic look of a clown.

Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil is one of the most famous circus's known to all, this one more involves acrobats doing the most amazing tricks not only is the whole circus theme I like its the amazing costumes and make up not the original clown its more contemporary.

   

looking at famous clowns Buffo!

so I am looking into clowns and found Buffo apparently he is the worlds strongest clown, he is an ex baseball player who now entertains kids, as not the everyday look of a clown I wonder if kids like him as he is huge! if I was going to a party as a kid with a clown that has all of his mules out would make me more scared. The concepts of clowns are changing but I find that when some one is to say the world clown we all think of a funny man dressed in bight colours and a white panted face and big red lips.

ahhhhhhh clown films

I know see why people find clowns so freaky why!? why!? do they have to put them in films? I have just been watching films that involves clowns so amusement is one of the films I have seen, it isn't the most interesting of film but there is a few scenes that have seen in the film that give the suspense look but also one that I am thinking of using is the clown in a rocking chair not in the spear bedroom but the kids bedroom here is an image of that clown in the film.

I really like the lighting in this image gives it a spooky feeling I find the lighting in this film really interesting.

   I like the way that they have made all of the film a grungy look.

locations :D

So this weekend I went home for a few days and as I was there I decided to take my camera out with me and find a few potential places that will add a childish feel but also some creepiness as well like I have found a road that has loads of woods and nobody hardly uses this road so I was thinking of doing one of my narrative images in this location I am hoping to get about 5 images out of the narrative and about 10-20 images of just clown faces in the studio just hope it all goes to plan more than anything I need to star designing the make up as I need to have a solid Idea of who will suit the make up and not wondering how shall I paint this person up.  
here is one of the locations I was thinking of.

i was thinking of having the clown just walking about with some balloons in one shot I was thinking even here or this place I was thinking if I went out when it was abit darker it would look really scary.

I also found a train station that I thought would be a good place to shoot as at night or twilight its very creepy looking even growing up getting a train from this station freaked me out when it got dark.

then I found a really big field whilst I was out and I was thinking what if I placed the clown in the field and have him facing the camera and have kids in the back ground coming towards the funny colourful clown.