Elizabeth 1: Golden Age -Character Comparison to my Contemporary Elizabethan Designs

In our recent seminar we watched the film Elizabeth 1: Golden age, as a few weeks back we watched Elizabeth 1 1998 film as well. During watching the film we ere told to look as the characters in the film either Queen Elizabeth herself or any other character and compare there looks throughout the film to my design and reference there look/hair/make up. This is to see how there historical 16th century looks, look similar to mine or even a contemporary version of it.

Queen Elizabeth 1:
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments. In this 2007 film, Queen Elizabeth 1 has a variety of looks for each occasion and day. She has quite similar make up throughout most of the film however her dresses, colour and style changes throughout. 

At the beginning of the film Queen Elizabeth wears a very bright and patterned long sleeved orange, red dress. This is completed with a simple pale face, fair eyebrows and slightly tinted red lips. She had a large cream ruff around her neck, her hair is in a curly up do with feathers attached to the top. I think the base of the make up and the fair eyebrows has similarities to my make up design. I still haven't got complete final design as I'm still in the development and experimental stage with the designs I like. When applying on a face chart and then applying on a person the design can look slightly different. Therefore me and my partner are still exploring ideas and experimenting with what looks good. I feel if I could incorporate something from this image from the film Elizabeth 1: Golden Age I could maybe use aspects of the colour of her dress into my design. As colour is an important factor in the design as it represents the theme, class and the era. 

One of the following dresses in the 2008 film was a long sleeve fitted, yellow/gold dress. In this movie Elizabeth seems to wear a variety of bright colours, I think this is because If you were wealthy (or the Queen) you could afford better materials that could of been imported and in a variety of rich colours. In my assessments partners design her colours are based around gold/yellow and red, which are colour used a lot for Elizabeth in the film. These colours are classed as rich colours. Again on her head is another accessory, accessories and jewels on the Queen was a very common use.

Later on in the film she wears a very covered up green dress, this dress is not as bright and over powering as the other colours its more of a subtle green. The green really neutralises her face in this dress and make it look very pale and bland. Her her is kept simple, short, curly and in an up do. Elizabeth throughout the film tends to wear quite a lot of wigs which were all different shapes and styles. Throughout the film Elizabeth wears her hair up however in one of the last scenes during the battle she has her hair down and very long.

Nearer to the end of the film Queen Elizabeth wears a very bright purple dress, the again is long sleeved and goes all the way up to the top of her neck. This colour has been used on one of my contemporary Elizabethan design. The base of the make up was very pale and the eyebrows white as Elizabeths were sometimes gone and if they were they were very pale they looked almost white. The contouring and lips were very contemporary and was a shape of this type of purple. I used purple as its classed a a royal colour and was used in the film. This colour scheme and make up have small influences and comparisons to my recent experimentation design which my partner created on me. I think watching this film has made me think of the colours that were used in the era on the Queen and also the natural pale base of the skin and looking at the simplicity of the make up, colours of the clothes and the curly, up dos.

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