The "Not all jokes are funny" - project ; The pre-session.

When the new Batman movie came, it released a kind of Jokermadness.

I still havent seen the movie. (Im waiting for it to pop up on the russian market in english language!!! Grr..!)

Even if i havent seen it you still are quite familiar with the Joker.

You grew up with the classic/kult (though very very corny) series about

"Läderlappen & Robin" as we say in Sweden.

(Directtranslation: The Leather-patch and Robin..)

But in this TV series the Joker was not so scary as todays Joker is i suppose.

I have seen tons of pictures based on the Joker interpret by others.

Photos, Digital artworks, sketches etc etc. So what i have done is nothing extraordinary or rare, but i still wanted to interpret the Joker my way.

The make up is quite easy to do as it is so smudgy and trashy and contains of basic colors, you can buy in any toystore or whatever.
The idea from the beginning is to portrait a friend here in Moscow as the Joker.

He has a very characteristic face with a white big smile and sharp eyes.

I think thats partly why he works as a Entertainment presenter on the channel

Russia Today (http://www.russiatoday.com/en).

Mr Martyn Andrews http://www.martynandrews.co.uk/.

What we will do now, is to find some more propping and clothes to make the photo more alive and try to find a suitable enviorment aswell.

Not just a headshot.

Last friday when we celebrated Aidas 24th birthday, Daniel and Martina came over.

First we had some dinner, and then we suddenly, quite spontaneous started to play around with some terracotta-clay that Aida got as a present.

It was fun....but i will not tell you more.

After talking about this Joker idea we finally also persuaded Daniel to act as a

make up model, to try out the Joker makeup, and also to test some lightning.

And the result came out quite allright i must say, though it could be more

developed.

I have posted the result for critique and got some good feedback what to do and

not to do when we go for the real Joker shoot.

The result: