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Jeffree Starr rose to fame through MySpace, where he posted controversial videos from his look to the music he made. He has made a comeback in recent years with his own business where he creates makeup. His business is worth billions of dollars. He creates Youtube videos where he tests makeup, and is very honest about how he feels about the beauty community and different makeup brands. Recently he has come under scrutiny for videos surfacing where he used racist language, and he posted an apology video for his actions.

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Kingsley is a Youtuber who became famous by uploading a 'Things I hate' video, where he sat for over 5 minutes and ranted about everything he hated, from birds chirping, to women driving etc. He became viral and continued to post videos about his opinion on celebrity culture.

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Logan and Jake Paul, constantly doing extreme pranks to gain followers such as setting their pool on fire, and filming a dead body in forest. Logan and Jake Paul have been accused of wrongly influencing their younger viewers to spend $50+ on their merchandise. Recently, Jake Paul has been under investigation for throwing a party in his mansion where multiple underage girls were spiked and put in hospital.

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WEEK 1: The first week of production I was only needed for one day, which was to film my Vlogs. My first vlog was the rant about fat people and poor people. For this vlog, I tried to make my voice go up quite a bit as I struggle with the tone of my voice as I'm naturally very monotonous. I was trying to use inflections quite a lot. The second vlog was really interesting as I had to look like I'd had plastic surgery. I had about 5 layers of silicone on my lips, which made it quite hard to move my mouth. I think this added to the character as if I had just had my lips filled, it would make my lips quite numb. I also had my eyebrows glued down and drawn on again higher than my natural brow, to make it look like I'd had a face lift.
WEEK 2: This week I was on set for 2 shots. The first shoot was in Manchester city centre for the homeless experiment. I feel like this shoot wasn't great. It felt like shots were being made up on the spot, as setting up shots took a lot longer than expected. There was no shot list/script on set. Tensions were running high and the crew were all arguing with each other no one was on the same page. The scene itself went okay, I felt like my acting was up to standard and what the director was looking for. The only issue I had was when we shot the scene where I say "Where the fuck are you going?" and I look towards the right as if I was seeing Imogen run up the street. In the next shot, Imogen runs down the street to the left. I mentioned this to the director and DOP that I'm looking in the opposite direction that she's running. They both said it was fine and it would work.
SECOND SHOOT: The second shoot of the week was in the theatre, where JJ, Remmi, Leila and Billie had close ups of us saying one line. I think this shoot was successful, and I think my acting was fine. The only issue I had was I was told on the spot to laugh really sinister, and I felt like I had no time to go and practise a laugh that could work for my character.

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For the character of Billie, I took inspiration from characters like Sharpay Evans, Regina George, and Madison Montgomery. These characters are all seen as the 'bitchy' character in their programmes/films. Sharpay thinks she rules the school, but she doesn't really have any friends. This is how I imagined Billie, that she's very popular on the internet but in real life, doesn't have many friends. Madison Montgomery is a film actress, who then attends a school for girls. She thinks she's better than everyone, which makes all the other girls dislike her. This is relatable for Billie, as she thinks she's better and has more fans that Remmi and Leila, which makes them, and lots of other Youtubers really dislike Billie.

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Madison Montgomery - American Horror Story -Coven
Madison was a film star from a young age and after discovering she is a witch, she is forced to join an all girls school for witches. She lets all the other girls know she is on top, and everyone should keep their distance as she believes she's better than everyone else. She thinks because she's the most famous and the best there is, she is the new Supreme (the strongest witch in the coven)

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Regina George- Mean Girls

Regina George is the original mean girl. When I think of 'bitchy popular girls' my first thought is Regina George. She is the most popular girl in school and has two friends who think they're popular like her, but really Regina uses them to make herself look better, as both Karen and Gretchen aren't that smart. Regina rules the school, people are scared of her and everyone wants to be her, which is how I picture Billie to be like. Billie thinks she's amazing and that everyone wants to be her because she's so popular and beautiful.

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Billie Lawson - 21 years old
Big influencer - 1 million + views on YouTube.
Materialistic
Focused on beauty and money.
Selfish.
Thinks being beautiful will make her happy.
Maybe was bullied as a child? - why she wants to change her appearance.

Mixture of girly and alternative/edgy. Over the top makeup, big lashes, curly hair, big hoops. Edgy in the way she dresses - t-shirt dresses, docs, fish net tights, band shirts and skirts etc.

Born into a wealthy family yet family is broken. Mum and Dad have fallen out of love, yet stay together for appearances. Billie doesn't have a close relationship with her parents and doesn't have any real friends, which is why she begins talking to people online. Builds up an online profile where she can be whoever she wants to be. Her personality becomes quite superficial. Started off doing makeup tutorials, then realised the bigger channels were the RANT challenges. Billie then did a THINGS I HATE video, which went viral in 24 hours. Billie thought this is the way people are going to like her, so adapts her personality to this, artificial, a product of the internet. Her shy, quiet personality has vanished and she becomes an opinionated, loud, arrogant, self obsessed.
Beauty and money are the most important things to her. She wants people to obsess over her like one of them unrealistic Instagram models. Maybe has even gone so far as to develop an eating disorder to achieve her goals.
YouTube Community
Doesn't like Remmi, Can see Remmi has a kind heart which is the opposite of Billie. Maybe is jealous of Remmi?
JJ is the only person she can relate with his 'dick' behaviour. He influences her personality. If he can be horrible and still have hundreds and thousands of followers, Billie can too! Maybe JJ is the only 'friend' is the only friend she's had in a while.
I don't think Billie has much of an opinion on Leila. Billie has way more views/followers on YouTube than Leila, so Billie isn't interested. She's not going to help Billie grow as an influencer.
Billie wanted to do the homelessness experiment to show her viewers a totally different side, which is also totally fake. She wants to show people she can be relatable, gain more followers by doing something 'good' Billie wants to move up in life, money and fame is the goal. She doesn't care about doing good for the world, just showing her viewers that she CAN do 'good'.

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DAY 1
On the first day of pre-production, we did our first read through of the script as a team. We went through and asked questions about the script eg. what locations were in mind, what the vision of the director was etc. Our director, Weronika then got the cast to do some improvisations to help us get into character. The first one was us sat in a restaurant and my food was awful, so I had to send it back. My character is extremely opinionated and arrogant, thinks she is always right, so I had no issue calling over a waiter and shouting in their face for another meal. My character, Billie, has no issue causing a scene, as she likes being the centre of attention anyway. The second improv scene was the 4 YouTubers sitting in a car (Billie, JJ, Remmi and Leila) and Laura's character drove past on a bicycle and fell on the car. Billie's reaction was to film it and laugh at the girl being screamed at by JJ. The next improv scene was the YouTubers were walking to a meet and greet and come across a homeless person (Laura's character Mel) and react how we think our characters would react. I think if Billie was with the YouTubers she would show no remorse. She would try and look 'cool.' She wouldn't give Mel any spare change, but would make it vocal that homeless people 'need to get a real job' I think the only time Billie would ever give change to a homeless person is if she was being filmed to show she can be a good person (all a facade)
We then blocked the scene where JJ, Remmi and Billie are doing the homeless experiment. We ran through it several times, trying to get the character of Billie more dimensional.

DAY 2
Started out blocking Billie's first Vlog. Rehearsed with Matty (DOP) and Ronnie (director. Ronnie wanted a tracking shot with a dolly, as Billie was holding a camera vlogging. My Vlog is meant to be very controversial and opinionated. I have an issue with my voice as my natural voice is very monotonous, so Ronnie worked with me on my voice to add some colour and use intonation where needed. It really helped me and I think added to my performance as when my voice got more high toned and 'bitchy', my physical performance heightened also.

DAY 3
Today was a group meeting where we discussed filming schedules for the next coming weeks, what props we need and what we needed for set dressing. Dressing the YouTubers bedrooms to fit their personality. For Billie, we discussed red tartan bedding, a tapestry on the wall, rocks and crystals dotted around, candles and incense sticks burning. A little bit edgy yet a little bit girly is how I would describe Billie.

DAY 4
Today we started makeup trials, we had to take thumbnail photos for our YouTube Channel. My makeup was soft glam, winged liner, soft pink eyeshadow, full coverage base, light contour. My thumbnails were for videos such as: TRAPPED IN A LIFT FOR 24 HOURS?! THINGS I HATE. SNEAKING INTO AN ABANDONED BUILDING!! WE RENTED A MANSION FOR THE NIGHT! WITH JJ!