As my performance piece of me removing my make-up went better than I expected I decided to try another piece this time putting on my make-up. I decided to do this to show the process of part of my routine in the morning. It shows the repetitiveness of me applying this make-up, then in the evening all that time spent putting it on that morning it is just wiped away.
I think the video does show this long boring process, but I think it is too long as I seem to be very slow at doing it! I feel this might lose the viewers interest and might not be as successful as the removing make-up one. I don’t feel this one is as strong because I already start out with no make-up on so nothing is really gained by the end of the piece. Unlike my previous video where you seem me becoming more and more uncomfortable.
One thing I did notice when watching this video back for the first time was how much my eyes flicker whilst putting in my contact lenses. For all the years I have used them I have never noticed this before. I think it is because you do not know you are doing it unless someones watches you and tells you, or you are recorded doing it. Considering they’re my own eyes it made me squirm a bit by how creepy my eyes did look. I know a lot of people do get squeamish about touching eyes so this is something I want to explore, carrying out this abject feeling again.
I discussed it with Jane in my tutorial and we spoke about how about if I was re-filmed with the camera up close to my eyes to highlight this contact with my eyes more and hopefully disgust the viewer further. So this is the next plan.
