What is Pin Up?
A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model or cheesecake, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall. Pin-up girls may be glamour models, fashion models, or actresses.
I am taking inspiration from the pin up girls drawn by Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren.
Make up
Plan
This is my initial plan for the Pin Up / 50's make up.
I plan to use a light brown eye shadow on my lid which increases in darkness as it reaches my outer corner of my eye. I will line my top lid with black liquid eye liner and create a cat eye wing on the outer corner, I will also line my bottom lash line 1/4 of the way in. I will then apply black mascara.
I plan to use a deep red lipstick and follow my natural lip line.
Sources
- Make up tutorial 'The Supermodel' in 'Retro Makeup : Techniques for applying the vintage look' by Lauren Rennells
Hair
Plan
I plan to create a classic victory roll style
Sources:
- Tutorial in 'Vintage Hairstyling retro styles with step-by-step techniques' by Lauren Rennells
- Video Tutorial '1940's Hair-Reverse Victory Rolls' by 'Lisa Freemont Street' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COg4eiEFAJE
Outfit
Plan
- A 50s full circle dress
- Lined stockings
- Heels
Photoshoot
I plan to use an outside location and use Gil Elvgren's 'Red, White, and Blue' (1966) as inspiration for this shoot.
I want it to be a blanket on a patch of grass, with a picnic basket in the forground. I will be holding an apple with a -fake- caterpillar coming out of the top and falling back in surprise.
I may have problems with this as it is currently snowing outside so I will have to come up with a back up plan.
My other plan is to use Gil Elvgren's 'A Warm Welcome' (1959) as inspiration, and place the shoot inside by the fireplace. Toasting marshmallows whilst sat by the fire.
Sources Used
'Red, White and Blue' 1966 by Gil Elvgren
'A Warm Welcome' 1959 by Gil Elvgren
Final Image
In today's lesson we looked at how far we were in our project and if we were on track or not and what actions we were going to take as a result of today's lesson.
We filled in the 'Critical Evaluation of Progress' worksheet in pairs or groups of three. I was paired with Sam for the first section and we dicussed the pros and cons of my Plan.
Pros: *Precise dates.
*Updated plan when a task was completed.
*Udated plan if I couldn't complete a task and moved it to another day.
*Organised tasks around my free time.
*Monitored my progress through my plan.
Cons:*I need to complete my plan for Jan, Feb, and March
*As it is electronic it is hard to access my plan if I haven't got a computer available.
*How will it look when I print it out to hand in, will the comments be viewble?
*I need to elaborate on my comments.
We also looked at our SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats).
Strengths: *A clear set idea
*An original Idea
*...
Weaknesses: *Very little primary research apart from the Surveys that Iplan to do on the final images I produce
Opportunities: I couldn't think of any opportunities that I could take advantage of apart from maybe asking my Mum about the gothic styling as she was a Goth in the 1980's
Threats: *I may have to spend money on getting some equipment or clothing that I need.
Finally we looked at if the progress we had made so far had fulfilled the requirements for AO1 and AO2.
AO1: *Clear topic and objective.
*Clear plan stating when things will be completed.
*Monotoring progress on the plan.
Need to do: *Write down aims and objectives clearly so that they remain constant.
Likely to score 7/10
AO2: *Books and internet sources used
Need to do: *Need to make sure I reference the sources used correctly.
* Could look at including more primary research
Likely to score 6/10
I then wrote the following on the actions I will take as a result of these discussions:
I intend to print off my plan and research so that it is more accesable. I need to write down my aims and objectives so that they wil remain constant. I need to complete my plan for January, February and March; I also need to stop putting things off and just do them.
My supervisor feed back was as follows:
Excellent advice! I agree that it's now really time to get moving. these are all clear and specific objectives that will help you to improve your project.
In today's lesson we explored Proof reading. We Proof Read a document that had 30 mistakes in it and we had to find them all. As we went through the document we found increasingly more mistakes.
This exercise helped me to realise that I need to check my Grammar and Punctuation in word docuents such as my Blog. I also didn't know that you were supposed to put two spaces after a full stop in a typed document.
This is my initial plan for the Pin Up / 50's make up. 
