Horror Shot

Denotation:
Long black hair, backcombed: This gives a very dark and mysterious look to emphasise on the character's personality. Having the hair slightly messy at the top gives a psychotic look.
Red lips with fake blood coming down the lip on the left: This enhances on the evilness. This almost creates a story behind it - the signs of blood shows she has obviously done something demeaning and the red lips emphasise on this aswell.
Face and body edited extra white: This gives the character a more ghostly, surreal and an immortal look.
Overdone black on eyes: Making her look malicious. The overdone of black make-up on the eyes helps to accentuate them so they become the key thing in the picture.
The black shirt: This is worn to emphasise on the black and white theme.
No facial expression, simply just looking straight into the camera with beaming eyes: This makes it seem as if she is a psychopath, as she casually has blood coming out her mouth.
It is slightly tilted: This makes it seem more blunt and 'in your face' because in order to tilt it, it cropped off some of the top and bottom making the character more obvious.

There were no problems in taking this photo as it was taken from a computer, thus I did not need to hold the camera. This would have wasted time as I would have had to adjust and hold the camera correctly in position. I did not want to go too overboard in the way I take the picture. I thought it would be better if I took a simple photo and edited it to make it look scary. This was so I didn't end up making it look typically predictable and 'cheesy.' I also thought this would help to make it more effective.

Initially I wanted everything to be black and white except the lips. I wanted the lips and the fake blood coming out the mouth to stay red. However, I could not get this to work due to the lack of equipment. I was going to make the edges blurred and maybe crop half of my body and face off, but when I done it, it did not look as good as I expected. Therefore, I kept it like this.

I believe my image is effective for its' aim - horror. This is through the colour of the photo, the hair & make-up, the slightly lowered face which made the eyes more prominent and the blood coming out the mouth (which is not as visible unfortunately).