Photographing and creating my hair silhouette...

Photographing and creating my hair silhouette...

After being taught how to create the French pleat I decided to recreate it when it came to producing my hair silhouette. I included both the Victorian shaped technique described below plus elements of the French pleat. I  then cut up a bouquet of flowers I bought and added these around the crown of the head. It was quite difficult trying to get more or less symmetrical with no obvious gaps that would have been visible in the shadow shot.

This task defiantly inspired me when it came to deciding what I was going to do with my Miss Havisham hairstyle. The structure of it was something I defiantly wanted for the character as its quite big and formal up-do something Miss Havisham could have had the day of her wedding day so my version would be an overgrown more decrepit interpretation.  

This is the example of the gap seen between the heightened hair and the flower. Its definitely looks more effective once the flowers and hair are adjusted to sit side by side.



Before shooting our final silhouette shapes we were given a practice seminar beforehand where we were given a dolls head each to practice on. Our group was split up into three and given three different Victorian inspired hairstyles to practice on the heads. Personally I really liked the technique my group were shown, I think its was the most effective as it included a lot of height and texture. 

 It was a quite a simple technique;

• Section the hair at the front of the head behind each ear clipping the parted hair with sectioning grips. 
• Then begin to back-comb the hair from the top of the head leaving the section hair at the front out. It helps to section the hair whilst moving down the head to back comb to ensure you include all the hair. 
• (Back-comb technique: Select a strand of section hair brush through normally then raise above the head and gently pull the comb from the end of the hair to the root. This creates a clump of hair near the root pull this further towards the root to create a bigger back-comb. Always back-comb at the back of the selected hair.)
• As you get towards the bottom of the head back-comb the hair on top rather than underneath.

After creating the given style we were then asked to create shapes on top that would stand above the hair. This was quite difficult as the final outcome we were aiming for was a striking quite unusual hair shape that would be shot as a black and white silhouette. This meant colour was irrelevant, height, texture and shape were the main elements that would count when producing it. 

Adding the objects...