Introduction To My Character Mrs Laderman

In this unit I will be creating my own characters for a TV series of my choice. We were told to choose two made up characters out of a possible three. I chose the character Mrs Laderman as one of my characters. Mrs Laderman is the next door neighbour of Claudia, another character, and is a woman in her 40s. She has different alter egos, is Claudia's friend and she is also Claudia's link to the outside world. Although they are friends there are suspicions that Mrs Laderman has designs on Claudia. From this description I decided that I wanted to focus on the 'designs' that Mrs Laderman has over Claudia. When thinking about the word 'designs' I took that to mean power and influence. She only allows Claudia to see what she wants her to from the outside world, meaning she has influence on Claudia's life. Therefore through my use of styling and make up I want her to be seen as a powerful and strong women.

My chosen key word for Mrs Laderman is 'Red Rave'. I thought this linked well into my idea of power as to me red symbolises power and strength. I wanted to link in the colour red with the make up and decided to do it by using a red lip. I think the use of this colour would also show the power and the confidence that she has as is a bold look and associated with power. With this character I also wanted to make her quite glamorous as to fit in with my chosen TV series. Therefore I decided that I wanted to keep her wearing quite heavy make up. I decided to look at images of women that are more mature but still wear heavy make up. I instantly thought of Linda Gray who plays Sue Ellen in the TV show Dallas. She usually wears a dark brown smokey eye with a nude lip, and to me she looks very beautiful. I wanted to take inspiration from this in my designs for the make up.