Creating the La Llorona Look

    As shown in my previous blog post - researching about how La Llorona looks and has been depicted - La Llorona is most often shown as a ghostly woman in encounter stories. Though her depiction in La Llorona (2019) shows her as a standard woman wearing a long white dress, nearly all other cinematic depictions of her show her as a ghost.

    For our film, we're going to show her in "standard" ghostly form. We are creating the first two minutes of the film, and as such time is not on our side. Unfortunately, this time constraint forces us to introduce the characters such as La Llorona quicker than we'd otherwise need to. La Llorona (2019) did not need to present Alma's powers or identity as La Llorona immediately like we do because they had the luxury of time - a full-length film. If we don't introduce her definitively as a ghost within this introduction we will leave viewers lost and confused.

    After our first group meeting, I met with Abby to discuss costume and makeup design for our film since she would be playing La Llorona. This allowed me to know what she had, and what she needed, as well as fill her in on what she'd have to do. We agreed upon a look that would resemble that of La Llorona's depictions in The Haunting of La Llorona (2019) and The Curse of La Llorona (2019). She would have ghost-white skin, dark shadows around her eyes and face, as well as bloody tears. Though we did not have contacts, her eyes contrast enough as is.

This is the dress Abby will be wearing when playing
La Llorona in our film. It is long and flowing like the
dress La Llorona often is seen in. Style is similar to
that of traditional clothing as well, though not identical.

Depictions of La Llorona in The Haunting of La Llorona (2019) and The Curse of La Llorona
(2019) that I will be using for the costume and makeup design for La Llorona in our film.