The week where I finally put silicone on my mould, and I became a ring master for the morning
Monday 7th November
I tell you now, It is absolutely Baltic at the minute in the mornings, like ice cold and I hate it 😦 especially when your tired and rather be in bed lol… This morning in Tina’s class it was time to start building the walls around my mould ready to pour the silicone in to create the negative ready to make the actual prosthetic… We use WED clay which is wet and then dries hard. You have to create key holes and stuff so when you remove it, it doesn’t cause a suction which means it could get stuck lol.
This is basically what it looks like, I didn’t get a picture of the actual silicone in the mould, so iv dug out my one from last year 🙂 This was the one for the deer looking one I did 😀
The process takes about 6 hours to cure, so next week ill be able to go in and pull it apart and have my negative… this brings me on to deciding we were going home at 12 🙂 we had nothing else to do, plus as per usual no Gary this week lol… I think he’s given up on us lot haha.
Tuesday 8th November
Today, I was being a model for Ashleigh for her moustache assessment, we had a arranged a few weeks ago that id help her out and model her wonderful moustache :D, her idea was a ring master with big pom pom looking hair, and this moustache, with full outfit! I even got to play around with a whip!! lol…. she started off adding in the extra hair and curling them, then apply the moustache! MY GOD is it super itchy… I don’t know how actors and stuff can go a full day of filming with that attached to their face! I could only have it on for about and hour and a half… it was horrible lol. Anyway she then applied my makeup and it was time to get dressed and head to the studio!… Sophie was also modelling for Katie and she was a pirate, we had a few photos taken together as we looked great!
After Sam’s class me and Leah decided we were super tired and didn’t have the brain space or patience to head to Anna Mays class, so we headed home 😀 so that was 2 days where we finished at lunch time (Head in hands)
This week I had ago at painting bubbles… this is for Tina’s assessment, I watched loads of YouTube videos and then had ago myself…There green as the bubbles for my assessment will be green, I also found that the green worked better than the black and white 😀
Next week is the Neil Gorton prosthetics event in Birmingham… I’m so excited 😀 😀 but its a super early start again like the harry potter trip
The week of 1940’s Photoshop, Face Casting Stage 2 & Harry Potter World
Pre warning this blog is going to have loaaads of photos 😛
Monday 7th March..
Lindsay’s class this week was this smart target stuff again, nothing exciting just pulling ourselves together ready for this new essay thing we got to write 😀
Vicky’s this week was us sorting out our Fairy-tale idea and which Lost Boy we were picking to do for the assessment 🙂 I’m so excited to start making the outfit and everything for this assessment 😛
Carl’s class involved me photo shopping my 1940’s photos, still not finished it or 100% happy, but its getting there, I managed to remove the logo off her boiler suit and Photoshop a giant British flag behind her, Oh and we greyed it slightly.
Tuesday 8th March…
This week in Sam’s class all the other girls had their 1940’s assessments, me and Nicole were supposed to practice airbrushing for our superhero assessment, but she ended being roped in as a model for Ashleigh, so ill let her off, so I pretty much pottered about, annoyed everyone and had a mess around with the airbrushing gun for the whole of 10 mins lol… this is what I achieved hahaha 😀 Loads Right!
We finally finished the moulding part of our prosthetics, and it was time to do the next stage. Basically you have to build a moat around the prosthetic piece to pour the silicone on to create the negative mould!, so this involved loads of WED clay being built up (WED clay is clay that Walt Disney uses to create little figures, its named after him) So by this point my mould started to look like a dinosaur hahaha
you put little keyhole things in the clay so you can pop the mould out when the silicone has been poured in, we even had to cover the eyes with these star shapes, which makes it look really creepy!
Next step its to mix picture A and picture B together which creates the first layer of silicone which takes 6 hours to cure (Dry)
Picture AÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Picture BÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Final piece
So next week we pour another layer on top of what we have done to create the final piece of the mould, for the next step.
Wednesday 9th March.
I went to Nicole’s house to meet up with her ready to head to Manchester, we nipped into Manchester town centre so I could grab a new suitcase for uni & one of those neck pillows for the long journey we had coming up the following day. Leah met up with us in Manchester, so we could grab some food which was yum!, we found this noodle bar, which is right next to the train station, where you can fill it up with noodles and toppings and eat loads, The spring rolls weren’t very nice, and it was pretty filling but it was nice lol. It doesn’t look very appetising but it was lol.
Molly came to pick us up, ready to head to the supermarket to grab some munchies for the bus the next day. Stocking up on Sweets, chocolate and more junk food, we were ready. Slumber party at Molly’s, we had a good time, even though we had a boiling night sleep, Nicole decided to sleep on me and Leah made weird noises when she slept hahahaha.
Thursday 10th March…. Harry Potter Day!!!
5am wake up call, to get out life together, jump in the car and get  to uni for 6am for the bus which would drive us all the way down to London to Harry Potter Studios! 5 hours it took on the way there on this really fancy bus we had, where the chairs reclined and it had a toilet :D.
Arriving at 11am we were all dying of tiredness, but we were excited to be there 😀
Queuing To Get In!
Harry potter’s bed in the cupboard (Below) was one of the smallest sets that was created for the movie.
Harry’s CupboardThe Great HallMrs McGonagall’s Costume  Mad Eye Moody’s Costume
Makeup/Hair & The Next Section Of The Tour!
The Makeup stations and some products used in the movieMakeup StationProducts used to attach things such as beards & Moustaches.Authentic Bellatrix Le Strange WigAll Wigs Used In The Movie
Goblet Of Fire
Gadgets used in the movie
Lauren & Chamber Of Secrets Door
Gang
Lauren, Nicole & Me
Goblet Of Fire Party Decorations
Panorama Of First Section
Second Part Of The Tour/ ButterBeer & Face Casting Section
Ministry Of Magic
Ministry Of Magic / Orbs
Random Fact but there were 17 fire places made in the Ministry Of Magic, all the green tiles were made from wood and hand painted (they blew them all up in one of the last movies), and they made 15,000 orbs for the Atrium (handmade) and then decided to use CGI instead after all the hard work of making them.
Defence Against the Dark Arts Class
Panorama Of Defence Against the Dark Arts Class
Demontors Blue Screen
SFX Makeup
Head Cast Of Characters
SFX Makeup Table
Head Casts Of Gringots Goblins
More SFX
The SFX side of the movie was really cool, we got to see all the face casts of the different characters & Actors, all the Animatronics’ such as the book that has the teeth, buck beak who moved and blinked, the giant spider which took 16 people just to operate and things like Voldemort when he was that little gremlin thing which moved and so did the Mandrake which bopped up and down out of his plant pot lol.
Me Drinking Butter Beer Which Was Disgusting!Gave Nadia The Butter Beer Outside Privet DrivePrivet DriveNicole, Nadia, Leah, Me, & Lauren On Hagrid’s BikeThe Night Bus – Take It Away Ernie!
Firstly Butter Beer Is Rank! Its Like a soda float, that’s fizzy and buttery but also bitter! The white foamy scum on the top is nice though! 😛 Me & Nicole shared one as we weren’t sure if we were going to like plus it was £7 just for one cup! privet drive was shut but apparently as of May there opening it up so you can go in and have a look around. Also in that section was the wooden bridge, I think it was the shrieking shack, Ron’s blue car & Hagrids bike.
Off to 9 1/3
L-R Nicole, Leah, Nadia, Me, Lauren & Molly
Sat On The Carraige Of Hogwarts Express
It was cool that you got to go on the Hogwarts express, and look in all the carriage’s. They were layed out like they were in the film’s and it showed which film and year it was from. We didn’t want to pay £14 for the professional images lol, so we cheated and took pictures of them when they came up on the screen 😀
Giant Replica of HogwartsThe Backside OF Hogwarts
Looking at all the architecture and drawings they did before they even created the movies was amazing!, when we walked around the corner, this giant replica of Hogwarts was there! I mean its HUGE! and we were like WOW!
Fred & Georges Sweet Shop / Weasley’s Puking Pastille’sNadia & Nicole In Diagon AlleyMe & Nadia Outside The Sweet Shop
We had an amazing day, even though it was tiring and I didn’t get back to my own bed until 1am on Friday morning lol. From the gift shop I bought one of those Snap board things they use in the movies when there doing a scene! 😀 always wanted one! plus before we left, we noticed there was a new film set being built for a new movie! we had a guess what it might be. However I was on a mission to find out exactly! So I ran over to the fence, this bloke on a fork lift truck was driving past… I shouted OI! & This was literally the convo:
Me: What going to be filmed on this set?
The Bloke: I’m not aloud to tell you….
Me: Ahhh please I wont tell anyone lol, Give me a clue!
The Bloke: Well where are you? Its something related to Harry Potter
(We guessed that it was Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, which is the book Harry Potter reads in one of the movies)
Me: So is it to do with the book Harry reads?
The Bloke: (Winks at me) Yes!!!
Woooooooooooo!! So apparently its being filmed in the summer and will be out soon starring Eddie Redmayne! (Sorry Mr Fork lift Man but I can keep my mouth shut!) 😛
HOME TIME!!!!! it was time for me to crawl into bed after the long day that we had
had such a lovely day! love my little uni family 😀
This was the one for the deer looking one I did 😀
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