Sally development

When thinking about the scene i have chosen and the character i have chosen a word keeping coming back to me and that Contrast. The is a prominante contrast in the scene (act 2 scene 5) between life and the cabaret world. Within real life and the beginning half of the scene its dull, complicated, angry, sadness, Cliff wanting for sally to settle with him in America and have a baby, there is also a presents of Natzies the fact that we already know what happened in WW2 creates even more atmosphere towards Natzies. This in comparison to the stage were Sally sings in the second half it's glamorous, fun, exciting, she's in the spot light, the men love her, its glittery the fact in this scene is that Sally's naivety stops her from caring or seeing any badness in the cabaret world or in Berlin.

I really want to pick up on this contrast within the design of Sally. When thinking about my previous post i am inspired by the use of glitter and bringing in that tacky over the top idea this brought to mind, an hyper realists artist Marilyn Minter she explores within her painting the ideas of sexuality and uses erotic imagery. I feel that her painting are an example of the contrast i feel happens in this scene in 'Cabaret' the use of glitter and Dior heel in the image below with the dirt across the foot explores that two sided idea between the stage world and the real life that Sally struggles in taking something glamorous and idealised and focusing on the imperfections.

References:

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The Huffington Post, (2014). Women in Art: Marilyn Minter. [online] Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malcolm-harris/women-in-art-marilyn-mint_b_4633133.html [Accessed 27 Nov. 2014].

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In relation to the design for Sally within this scene, my initial visuals of her would be that she would be tiered maybe bags under her eyes, gaunt from not eating and losing engergy from her pregnancy while still drinking but over the top of all of this be very made up. The makeup i imagine to be very layered creating this mask like feel, as its her first night back at the Kit Kat club i can visualise that she has made an effort more than she used to but for this to still feel tacky and cheaply done to relate it to the finical situation in Berlin at the time.
Although the 1930's historically correct makeup at the time was very thin arched brows and thin, natural eye liner with a contour to enhance and make the eyes look bigger along with red, raspberries or plum lips. I want to look at more that Berlin nightlife enhanced makeup style within the 30's inspired by performers at the time such as Anita berber.

Below is my initial face chart exploring my ideas before and after glitter is also shown to show the eye design. I chose to do the eye shadow in a this green colour as during my research this is a typically popular colour around this time i further thought that it makes reference to her nail colour also.