Changes to Character Profiles - Claudia & Mrs Laderman

From the feedback I got from my initial ideas of my characters Claudia and Quentin, looking further into the story line of American Horror story the freak show and carrying out more research on the characters I decided to change my characters that I will be using as my final two. Initially I had Claudia and Quentin as my characters. However I shall now be using Mrs Laderman instead of Quentin. As the freak show is a story based on freaks who run a circus. Mrs Laderman is in charge of the circus and rules over it.

I still want to use the initial clown make up idea that I had for Quentin, instead now use it on Mrs Laderman instead. Looking at tall the terrifying clowns there has never been a woman as a frightening clown figure and this might attract even a larger amount of the audience to the tv series. As this is a freak show I would like to create Mrs Laderman as a clown character that is aslo a freak in a certain way. This could be shown from her makeup.

Moving onto Claudia, as she was always locked away since her childhood she has developed schizophrenia and as she started to loose her mind she was brought to the circus. As Mrs Laderman brought her into the circus she always looked out for Claudia, however still kept her indoors. Claudia then developed a relationship with Mrs Laderman and she was the only way Claudia could see and know about the outside world, that is activities that take place in the circus outside her room.

Claudia sees Quentin performing in the circus one day and as they start meeting regularly she starts to develop feelings for him. However, when Mrs Laderman gets to know about this she is not very happy as she too has feelings for Quentin and wouldn't let Claudia come near him, hence she is always locked away. Mrs Laderman tells Claudia twisted stories about Quentin and the outside world to keep them apart. This only makes Claudia's mental disorder worse and worse.

Designing Mrs Laderman's look as a freak I want to add extra features to the make up for example an extra eye that would make her a third eye clown freak of the circus. Using this third eye Mrs Laderman always keeps an eye on Claudia making sure she is no where near Quentin. I will have to look into how I will incorporate something like this into the design which I will do by practicing different designs.

Going onto Claudia's makeup I want to have a beautiful face with certain elements that give hints about her mental stability not being right. I will have to research into my design work and see what works best and what horror elements I can use for Claudia's design.