The week that Monday was a stressful one, Moustaches again! & Student lock in 🙂
Monday 26th September
Tina’s this week was pulling out our face casts from last week & filing them down to make them smooth ready for sculpting next week 🙂 Lauren’s face turned out great 😛 I spent 2 hours, sanding it, filing and smoothing making sure it was perfect ready to start creating my creation on Monday next week 🙂
I did have the chance to start this week, however I wasn’t in the best mind set to start it off, so I decided to wait and draw up some designs before I start. Last year I remember I just winged it and that’s not always the best thing to do 🙂
Oh & I got electrocuted this week by the bloody plug socket, taking the drill out of the wall, it shocked me 😦 it really hurt… so that was my Monday morning lol!
Garry’s class this week lasted the whole of 10 mins, while he asked if we had any problems & then decided we didn’t need to stay BONUS!.
On the way home, we hopped onto the train, tired and knackered… it got stuck at Wigan 😦 we literally had to jump from one train to the other with like 5 min.. unfortunately for Nicole she was asleep lol.. bless her she had to literally run half asleep with me and Leah shouting at her to move her arse hahaha.
Tuesday 27th September
Sam’s Class today was learning plaiting techniques & carrying on with these moustaches! I’m so proud of myself on how far I got with mine, considering last week it took me 2 hours to do about 6 hairs 🙂
I know this doesn’t look like loads, but there was more hairs by the time the lesson had finished! the orange bit in the picture, is where all the hairs have to be 🙂 I have about 4-5 weeks to get it all done, hair by hair 🙂
We didn’t have Anna-May this week as some of the girls went off to be in the audience of Countdown…. We chose to not go because A. The normal Countdown is boring (If it was 8 out of 10 cats I would have gone) & B. it would have meant that we got home late! Plus student lock in was on this week.
Which leads me on to heading to a really cute dessert house called Carmello which did loads of cakes & Macaroons 🙂 I had a passion fruit one, Pistachio and a Vanilla & Strawberry one, they were so yummy :D…
after that we headed to Lauren’s flat for an hour and chilled out until It was time to head into Manchester City Centre for the huge student shopping night…. we went everywhere! I got a new pair of jeans and this really cute jacket… I was exhausted by the time I got home….
This Weeks Makeup look I went for was this really cool clown, I wanted to play about with some of my new face paints that I got, and wanted to see what I came up with 🙂 also had to add in the Snapchat filter of course 😛
Its week 2! & back in with Tina Again :D.. This week we got our boxes which had been filled over the weekend ready for the new year 😀 We each get a box with a bunch of materials in, so that everyone has the same amount of products to use over the year so were not arguing over each year using more of one thing than the other!
All Our Boxes Lined Up
Contents
In this box we get, silicone, plaster bandages, a block of clay, some mixing pots & a marker 😛 I’m so happy that they actually went through with what they were going to do! 😀
Anyway Tina’s class this week was making bald caps ready to face cast for our new characters! So applying layer upon layer of latex the bald caps were coming together. This time I’m using Lauren as my model. So after my usual morning nap 😛 and lunch, it was time to get Laurens face casted and ready for next week. Only took me an hour & refreshed my memory about it all form last year :D.
Next up was tutorial with Garry lol, he introduced himself and told us what his lesson was all about. Basically we go to him if we have any problems! Plus he said he’s going to show us how to use Photoshop properly this year, as from my blog posts from last year, you can see all the drama we had in that lesson 😛
Tuesday 20th September
My GOD was it cold this morning! I haven’t missed all that at all, I even had to put my gloves on!
Sam’s class was up first, and this week we had to start the knotting technique ready to start these moustaches & beards! &&&& its sooooo stressful and fiddly! you have to hook about 2 hairs into a little knot using this tool with a hook on the end, but you end up catching the hook on the mesh and then it all just becomes a knotty mess! Took me an hour just to get 6 hairs onto it lol. Once you get into the swing of it, its really easy, but its starting the swing that’s annoying!
Oh & let me introduce you to Hannah! The blonde one in the picture above, she’s part of the gang now 🙂 two Hannah’s in the same class 😛 Hannah 1 & Hannah 2 lol, Such a cool name!
Next week we have to start actually making the moustaches & stuff ready for our characters, this is going to be a stressful few weeks trying to knot it all if I only did those 6 hairs in an hour haha.
Anna Mays class this week was talking about our Cv’s and how to get them ready for industry when we get shoved into the big wide world and have to find a job! we even got to play a game of Kahoot again which we used to do with Lindsay and involves winning sweets 😀 I’m There! always haha.
We had 3 minutes to leg it to the train this week lol, three of us pegging it up the escalator and literally made it by a second before the doors shut! pros at this shit!
So Last year all the girls would take the mick because I always fell asleep everywhere, this year im going to get them all back! starting with Leah & Nicole…. Unfortunately, to Leah’s expense I didn’t save her picture, however Nicole on the other hand, got well and truly paid back!
That will teach you!
This week I also bought a ring light thing that attaches to your phone so you can take better pictures with a bit of extra light, like selfies & stuff, I bought it so when I face paint I can take better pictures as the lighting in this house is not great!
I’m going to try it out tonight to see what its like 😛
The student year has officially begun, The Circus came to Uni lol & FacePaint galore!
Monday 12th September.
OMG how I haven’t missed getting up at 5am to go to university get me there for 9am lol, feeling like death and dragging myself out of bed, it was time to get myself together and hall arse to the train station to meet Nicole & Leah!! wooo Gang’s back together again. Leah filled us in as usual about her summer holiday and what’s been going on, and it was nice to see each other again 😀 plus I got to see Lauren who I haven’t seen since we left!.
All the hello’s & how have you been’s over and done with it was time for Tina’s lesson ready for SFX! After going through our schedule for this first term, we got to sit about and come up with our first characters of the year which involves creating face casts again and any character we like as long it involves airbrushing & a prosthetic OBVs! So Pencils out! and time for a sketch and a brain storm. Not going to lie I fell asleep for half an hour 😀 (Standard of Miss Letch!) my alarm went off at 10:30am lol and woke me up! I mean it was bound to happen, I cant help it hahahaha.
After Tina’s we were supposed to have our tutorial with our new tutor Garry! Hi Garry 😀 Your in for a treat with us lot! thankfully we didn’t technically have to go to that, instead we had a meeting our principal and having to watch this stupid presentation on respect and blah blah blah 😀 Home Time! my favourite part of the day 😛 crawling into bed and what felt like a super long day, it was time to catch up on my sleep ready for day 2.
Tuesday 13th September.
Sam’s Class was up first 😀 😀 😀 So happy we have Sam again this year as I really enjoyed her class last year :D. First up we have to create moustaches of a character or famous singer or someone we knew and the rest of the class had to guess who’s moustache it could have been. I decided to make mine like your little moustache you have going on lol & funnily enough so did Sophie 😀 we had matching Sam Moustaches!! they all turned out really good & I was on a roll guessing who’s they might have been 😀
I added in a soul patch for you 😛
We then went through this semesters schedule and have a think about what kind of character we might be coming up with this time, the first one has to have a moustache or a beard and the second is based on a childhood nightmare or memory! watch this space as I have some awesome ideas 😀
After Sam, we had Anna-May who now replaces Lindsay from last year although Anna-May’s class is slightly different and we only have 4000 words to write this time lol No Pressure!
We sat in her class until 3, we got to talk about work experience and ways to go about getting some. Part of our course involves working a certain amount of hours within the industry to pass this part of the course :D.
The freshers fair came to uni and they had advertised that the circus was coming aha, this involved a coconut shy, hook a duck, a guy on stilts and a candyfloss machine lol. Free candyfloss though! I cant say no to that aha. The stands were advertising the local stuff we can get involved in & were handing out free stuff lol! by about 4 it was time to head home as we were pooped and had stuff to get on with lol.
This week I ordered a ton of face paints ready for this year and they are AWESOME!!!!! check them out! I even had a play about with them and had ago at doing a neon zombie to see how pigmented the colours were 🙂
Hope you had a good first week back at university to 😀
I’m officially a 2nd year! The new term is about to begin! & Summer Hols are over!
Its currently Wednesday & the new term begins on Monday the 12th! I made it to the second year which is a start aha! who knew! after an eventful summer holiday & a break from it all, I’m ready to begin again and conquer a new year, with new creations, designs and characters. Although this a quick post to get me back into the swing of things, Im excited to see everybody again as I have missed them all…. this could possibly be the year we both graduate!
I have a basket full of new makeup on standby ready to purchase for my kit & the new student year, however student finance cant pull their finger out and sort out my money! I caught up with Nicole the other day and were both so excited to start the new plus iv not seen Leah since we left! (its been 1 whole year since we all first met and it feels like a lifetime) I need my usual Monday update on the train of the weeks shenanigans 😀 so roll on Monday to find out what’s been going on! Plus this years schedule is exciting! 5 hours almost on a Monday of SFX! bring it on!
The house is on its way! remembering my last post about it when I moved in and how I wanted the ground to swallow me up from all the stress & building work that needed doing 😦 However the first floor is almost complete & mum has until November to get it done ready for the house warming she planned ha!
I’m so excited for your show this year & having another trip to London to live as a student for a week again! Roll on October! lol
The weeks of serious stress, Time running out & its all over….. until September!
so the past couple of weeks have been crazy busy! 2 assessments in 1 day, work to finish off and catch up on. Creating crazy outfits for crazy characters & I was a dragon for the afternoon.
Where do I start….
The past couple of blog posts have been about us making these moulds ready to start making our prosthetic pieces. The last time I posted I think I had just moulded my first one! and it turned out better than what I expected… so the time had come for me & Nicole to use the pieces we had created, on each other for our superhero/Supervillian characters we had to make. Nicole’s was based around the pink dragon from Shrek! and mine was loosely based on Maleficent! they turned out sooo cool. But before I show you, let me take you back to where the stress began!
Nicole had her Supervillain assessment up first! with me kindly being her model for it. she had created big wings, brought me this gorgeous grey wig and brought the fishnet stocking for later 😛 aha. She started by applying the piece to my face, which felt really weird trying to breath through the little slits on the nose piece. She then airbrushed it pink added in the detail (She used the fishnet tights to create scales up my arm and around the prosthetic piece (Magic))and daah daaah the creation was made.
My Supervillain was loosely based on Maleficent 🙂 (Who doesn’t love that movie!)
Her name was Aurella! she had large antlers and a big long cloak and mini antlers growing from her head 🙂 I was so happy with how the final look turned out. However! I need to work on my edges of my prosthetic piece as they took me forever to blend out when it came to applying them. I airbrushed all around the edges with black and blended it into her hair, so you couldn’t see the fact that the prosthetic was slightly bigger than her forehead! she shouted at me as I cut some of her hair off trimming it 😛 Sorry Nicole! I used a giant piece of black fabric to create the cloak, and I was going to make a staff, but it was going to be a lot to carry on the day as I also had another assessment… but more about that shortly. Here was the final Piece.
I attached the antlers by hot glue gunning them to a black headband, I separated her hair and pulled some of it through the middle of the antlers so you couldn’t see it, then tied string to the back to hold it to her head as they were pretty heaving lol. Nicole worked her fabulous magic to make my photos turn out great 🙂 My favourite one yet!
On the same day I had my Directors assessment. We had to create characters that would fit into a directors movie. I chose to do Tim Burton! Love him! I chose to do Pinocchio and turn him into something that would go into a film….I did the sunken eyes, the stripes and the dark messy hair! I also bought a prosthetic pixie nose instead of the usual long nose that Pinocchio has ( in the final image you cant see the nose best)… we had to do a demo in front of some of our classmates and show how to do the make (whilst being filmed) aha the most nerve racking thing ever! Thanks Nadia!
I had my tears that day… it had been a long hard stressful day, plus I wasn’t feeling to great… so I had a moment! the first of many from the girls 😛
I was pleased with the fact I got it all done and they looked great!
A week later it was submission day & 4pm was the deadline… thankfully I had completed the work the night before and just wanted to hand it in and get it out of my possession lol. I did the best I could and fingers crossed I at least get a pass! The queues for the printers that day was unreal…. there was a lot of paper, laptops and glue sticks! with everyone running around frantically trying to get all their work done on time! Us girls had arranged a meal in the local restaurant, to have drinks, a big meal and a final catch up before we all broke up for the summer! It was a fabulous after noon! *Clink* Thank F**k its all over!
All The Girls For The Final Meal At Alberts.
Me & Lisa Messing around
Had such a great time this year with them all. YOU ALL BETTER BE BACK NEXT YEAR!
I have learnt my lesson this time and I’m determined to do even better next year and not be so lazy on a few things….. I shall be spending the summer researching on more stuff & buying more makeup for my kit!
I had this cartoon picture of me done, that I can use in the future for a logo or something… or a profile picture because it looks so cool 🙂
The week we had sad news, the Lost Girls happened & I did my first prosthetic piece
Sadly on Sunday night my poor little cat Cleo sadly passed away after having 14 wonderful years in our family 😀 it was a very sad evening, however full of memories of her from the day we first got her and how she has grown up with us over the years. My gorgeous little tortoise shell.
Monday 25th April
Today was Fairy-tale Assessment day! and they turned out really cool 😀 after dashing around all morning trying to sort ourselves out, it was time to set up & start preparing the model for the final pictures…. Nadia was my fabulous assistant… I had her curling my models hair, covering her in synthetic mud & even wrapping leather straps around my models body. (thanks Nadia!) I also had a wonderful model, who turned up on time, was really nice & got me some great shots 🙂 Although it was a individual assessment, we also had to work as a team and our models had to mesh together to create a final image :D. We decided to re-create the scene in the film Hook, where the Lost Boys hold up signs, to help Peter Pan think happy thoughts to learn to fly 🙂 I even made us some cardboard signs 😛
These are just some behind the scene shots…..
The top one is one of the final images! we got some other really good ones. I’m so proud of our models, assistants and the rest of the group 🙂 thanks girlies!!!
Tuesday 26th March…
Today felt like a really long day, I was so tired from the day before I just felt like poop all day 😦
Sam’s lesson this morning, I had Lauren practicing her Directors character on me, where I think I’m going to be this fairy evil queen or something, but the makeup and hair looked well badass & cool 😛
these photos didn’t do it great justice, but it did look really cool 😀 I’m excited to be her model.
Tina’s class I finally got to press my mould together to create a prosthetic piece and it turned out pretty well for the first one 😀 so I’m exited to see how its going to turn out on the face 😀
The pink one is the piece that I will be wearing which Nicole made & mines the one on the end 🙂 it looks really cool as a final piece!
Its bank holiday next Monday so itll be nice to have a day off to my self 😀
4 Weeks left of my first year!, Maleficent happened & Just not enough time in the day!!!!
OMG! 4 weeks left & then its submission week! it feels like not that long ago when me & Nicole went out for not so busy fresher’s week haha…. and forever since me & Nicole first met! It’s nearly been a year! I can’t believe it!
However these 4 weeks are going to be the most hectic of my life! I have 3 assessment’s to complete and prepare for, I’m sure about 3 1,500 word essays somewhere in all that as well, 2 journals to complete, annotations on Pinterest boards & a partridge in a pear tree 😀 I can do this! I can do this…. I cant do this 😦
Monday this week was the only day I went to university…. I finally got around to uploading my SMART targets onto the LIP which is an online learner portal thing lol. It was then onto Vicky’s class and this week where we were models for Molly & Nadia, Lauren had her own model. I was Maleficent, Nicole was Cruella & Laurens model was Ursula – these are for the fairy-tale assessment’s 🙂 (Mine’s this Monday)
These were the before the shoot photos 🙂 Molly put my hair into little horns at the front and had me in this all black body suit, then we found this black and purple cloak and the look all came together. I loved how she did my eye makeup with the green it was awesome!
Everyone knows me I love messing around! so I’m pretty sure someone’s SD card is going to be full of pictures of me laughing or pulling silly faces 😛
This is one of their final shots and it already looks awesome!
Its mine on Monday morning and were doing the Lost Girls… from Hook/Peter Pan! Im so excited and my model seems to be really nice. I’ve worked really hard on my outfit and journal ready for this. Fingers crossed it turns out the way I have it pictured in my head 😀
The sun has been shinning over my town this week and it has been gorgeous… so before I had to go to work on Friday night we stopped by the beer garden for a quick drink 😀
Why not 😀
These last couple of weeks are going to be manic! with work, still working on the house and trying to complete all this work I hope I can pull myself together lol
The week of what the hell happened, uni life! & I’m Fed up!
I haven’t written a blog post for uni for about 2-3 weeks now lol… 2 reasons 1. No internet! & 2. We Moved house!….. for some be known reason the mother decided to switch the Wi-Fi over from our old house to our new house 10 days before we actually moved. So I was without internet and access to the outside world for a whole 10 days! Hence no bl0g. While I sit here right this second in my shabby clothes, covered in paint and dust loosing the will to live..with a spare few mins I might add! I thought id sit down and write this post and take you back to 2 weeks ago and what’s been going on!
University!:
As far as I can remember over the past few weeks, we sat down with Lindsay and carried on with our smart target.. the second week it was bank holiday Monday so we didn’t have to go in that day aha!
VICKY’S! I remember… it was the week Me, Nicole, Leah, Molly & Lauren all sat in the library and actually got on with work for a change 😀 we all sat around together to make sure everyone was on the right page… and Leah was searching for an outfit for her fairy-tale costume!.
proof she was actually working hahaha. then onto Carl’s lesson and I couldn’t tell you what had happened that week as I’m pretty sure we just stayed in the library until 4 and then went home 😛 Sneaky 😛
Sam’s class for the past 2 weeks was actually fun, the first week we did an acid burn… I did it with SFX cosmetics & products, where Nicole had to re create the same thing but with homemade stuff, like banana’s and gelatine (which failed) 😛 both wounds looked really good, as for pictures, I have what mine looked like but the after math mess of Nicole’s 😦 (Note to self! take pictures!)
Pretty Smelly id say!. The second week was us just starting our ideas for our Directors assessment… I think I’m going to do Pinocchio Tim Burton style 😀 I’m still looking at ideas :D.
Tina’s lessons were basically us doing the moulds that we built the week before and preparing them for the next stage which is creating the prosthetic… however… these 2 weeks we had to do layers upon layers of bald cap plastic again!!!! about 9 coats I did to get it write, we got to leave early as we cant really do much while they are drying 😦
We basically had to pull them apart, clean the face of all clay, then clean out the actual mould (picking out all the pieces) and then layering them up with bald cap plastic!
Then Half Term Began!!!!!
This is where everything went Pete Tong! aha as we finally moved in to this new house, which is so much bigger and has so much space… I’m currently trying to get my room ready so I can move into it and don’t have to share with mum lol….. but its beginning to get on my nerves as it has taken so long so far to get to the place where I’m at and its not even ready yet (sulking!) iv only just put the first layer of paint on, after spending 3 days wall papering, having it plastered, new skirting boards & everything!… plus the most stressful thing is we don’t have carpets yet which is a nightmare! so everything is super duper dusty, you shower and your dusty again after 5 mins (slight exaggeration!) but you catch my drift! Even the cat has gone from being white to grey :D. After almost 4 months off work due to the floods back in December… the day has rolled around to start back at work tomorrow… and although I have enjoyed my time off… it hasn’t been a holiday 😦 I need a break already! this is going to be exhausting trying to study at uni, renovate a house, work and do uni work at home FML!!
To Cheer myself up I bought Zara Martin headphones, which have cat ears and are awesome! I’m in love with them!!!
By the way, If you don’t hear from me for a few days, iv crawled under a rock to sulk! ill be about shortly 😀
The week we met Clare Golds, Wounds with Sam & Silicone Moulds.
Monday 14th March
For a change in Lindsay’s class this week, we got to meet a lovely woman called Clare Golds! She is a well known makeup artist in the industry and has worked on things like Doctor Who and a bunch of other stuff 🙂 we had a hilarious lesson….. First off we had to create a look in 40 mins with a scenario of having one thing quirky on your model. Example – you had to do a natural look, but add something quirky like a bold colour on the eye/lip or maybe blue blusher, something crazy and wacky. Me, Nicole & Lauren were in a three, first off we worked on Lauren and gave her Blue & Purple wacky eyebrows. It was down to the last minute and we had realised we hadn’t done anything with her hair!!! we literally had 1 minute to tie her hair in these weird looking buns on the top of her head! safe to say we didn’t win that round as they were wonky and it just looked a mess hahaha.
EXACTLY!
The next scenario, was to recreate something from some century which I cant remember, with a natural makeup look, but we had to re-create these hairstyles that were horrible 😀 I decided to choose one that was a little challenging to try on Nicole’s super long hair! Nightmare! Her hair is so thick and long!
Again EXACTLY!
Clare said she liked the hairstyle aha! We had a good laugh with her and it was nice to get an in site into the industry a little.
We got to leave Lindsay’s lesson an hour early for lunch, so we had a whole 2 hours! Lisa came up with the fab idea about us all going to the pub as we hadn’t been out as a full group since we started in September! So Ashleigh, Lisa, Katie, Nadia, Me, Sophie, Nicole, Lindsay (Liverpool Lindsay), Lauren, Sanita, Jess & Molly Headed to the Woodstock for a well deserved lunch!
Pub Lunch!
Love our little uni family, we all get on so well!
Vicky’s and Carl’s were pretty much the same this week, Vicky’s we just caught up on some of our work for our fairy tale assessment, and carl’s was just photo shop & any other crap I decide I want to do hahaha 🙂 I Got photo shop for free on my laptop which I got excited about because I can do all my work from home at my own pace haha.
Tuesday 15th March
Sam’s this week was catching up on this Directors assessment that’s coming around soon, we sat down and sorted out all our dates and times and ideas that we had, we had to fill out paper work so Sam knew where we were at. After all that we got to sit down and do a little task where we have to choose a casualty makeup, one of us has to create it with sfx products, the other has to create the wound with home made products and then present it to each other next week, which will be fun and interesting to know what home made products we can use to create stuff!
Our moulds are finally taking shape for Tina!
This is what my mould looked like when I came back to it, all the clay had dried and cracked, and the first layer is dry. Next we have to mix up A & B again from last week and then add in this next thing called Thixotropic… which we call tropical juice haha (we know what were taking about 😛 ). This stuff you literally pile all over your mould and then leave again for another 6 hours to go completely solid, ready to be pulled apart next week and cleaned out! this is getting exciting to see what there going look like when there done!
Anyway I’m off to sort my life out haha I have so much work to do this week!
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 A Picture B 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 😀
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