Story board
1- The attack on Pearl Harbour begins, after the Japanese Imperial Army Air Service strikes American Navy ships, docked at Pearl Harbor.
2- Recently woken up, and now in a tired and panicked gaze, the nurse rushes to get ready before traveling toward the hospital.
3- The nurse leaves the house, in hopes to travel to the hospital as soon and as quickly as possible.
4- In a panic, she is not paying attention to everything around her – just trying to reach the hospital asap. In this daze, she is caught in an explosion, from a building that had been shot at from above. Head at window height, she suffers cuts and scrapes on the face from glass and shrapnel.
5- Unable to walk due to her injuries, she crawls across the ground in hopes of a safe place to hide under shelter. She reaches an area and hopes to shelter here and wait for someone to come to her rescue, in order to prevent further injury.
6- Unfortunately this shelter was not secure enough, and the nurse got caught up in the crossfire of some overhead plane fire. This results in a gunshot to her shoulder/chest.
Face plans
For my final design, I decided to create lacerations, scrapes and scratches across the face. I intend to show off multiple techniques, by creating two deeper lacerations on the face. I plan to apply a prosthetic cut above the eyebrow, and create one of my own on the cheek – using sculpt gel. Then, I plan to create scrapes and scratches across the rest of the face. Following my storyboard, these injuries are caused from shrapnel, therefore I will use tinfoil to create homemade shrapnel prosthetics to apply inside these wounds.
I am going to create a typical 1940’s everyday makeup, consisting of a pale base, blusher, minimal brown eyeshadow and a red lip. I will add bruising around the eyes and nose, as well as a bleeding nose, to further add realism to the shrapnel injuries across the face. Bruising wounds are a common injury caused by blunt force, after explosions during the war.
I chose this face plan to create my final design as it included a product list. This enabled me to easily follow my plan and products list during the assessment – as they were both together.
Body plans
After developing my initial ideas, I decided to follow this body plan for my final design. I believe this plan’s wound placements tied together much nicer to create a clearer story.
Firstly, I plan to create a burn, along with bruising and scrapes along the legs. The story I created involves the nurse falling – leaving bruises and scrapes on her knees and shins, and breaking her ankle- as shown by bruising on her leg. Next, the building she is next to explodes, and while still on the floor, the bottom of their trousers catch fire- causing a third degree, charred burn to form on her leg.
Furthermore, I intend to create bruising, scrapes and scratches across the arms. These would also be a result of falling over. Next in the story, just after she manages to crawl to shelter, the nurse is caught in overhead crossfire, causing an entry gunshot wound to the shoulder.
Hair plan
For the hair, I have decided to create a continuous vintage roll. Not only was that my favorite style to create in my lessons, I believe this look is much more suited the nurse character I am creating.
I chose to create a nurse for my assessment as even though women did begin to work in the military for the first time during the second world war, it was not until the much later years.
Victory rolls and french pleats were much more popular for women in the military, as they wore hats. However, looks like this were much more suited for nurses, who needed their hair out of their faces, but still wanted to opt for a more glamorous look. This look is also well suited for those with long hair, like my model.
Megan Hoff 