Story Telling
Script - BLLURA MUSA
A creature/goddess/defender
Location
The Ideal Location : Dead Sea
as it's name related to the deadsea and it's crystals and the creatures role to defend the dead sea from abusage of it's minerals (highlighting the environmental concern)
The name " Bllura" means crystal in Arabic - [BAL-LURA] The name is Musa translated as, “Newborn” and/or “saved by the water”. Also it is the Latin of Muse which is (in Greek and Roman mythology) each of nine goddesses, the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who preside over the arts and sciences.
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Inspirations
Makeup
Mood board
so me and the makeup artist Laila Batirova were thinking and planning regarding the makeup that we want something AQUA to give this sea creatures / mermaids effect from the color palette as well as how it withdraw the eye in a beautiful shape making of this sea goddess.
Execution
BLLURA MUSA BTS by Batool Alrushdan
Scenes
Scene 01
Drone footage of the Dead sea with one sentence highlighting the environmental concern
-> Receding shoreline (As of 2021, the surface of the Sea has shrunk by about 33% since the 1960s)
Scene 02
Showing the creature like mermaids/sirens just peacefully being there.
(writing script it's role)
Scene 03
reawakened scene - close up/ flat lay of the creature opening eyes (while sleeping on salt near the beach)
Mad creature coming out of the dead sea wearing full outfit + dress + wings upset (change in music)
Scene 04
showing outfit
Firstly start with crystals and sea with the full dress (to show how the dress is related to mimic this place)
Close up to the headpiece.
Close up to the Main front top piece (Manikin/ like a defensive 3D printed strophium for the warriors and super hero's).
Scene 05
Close up Thermochromic nails and bracelet change in color
Thermochromic Nails of BLLURA MUSA by Batool Alrushdan
That was behind the scenes - making of the thermochromic nails by mixing the thermochromic pigment (same one used for the bracelet) with transparent gel color with UV light
Scene 06
Close up and B-roll of different crystals geometry (branching like) to relate the design to the surrounding (support the Camouflage idea)-
Scene 07
Timelapse of the full wearable while creature is sleeping near the shoreline (from day to night with not light to be able to show the glow in the dark) - Reflecting Bioluminescence
Scene 08
Close up- Electronics of the headpiece
Scene 09
Fabrication process
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smooth transition from Real crystals bubbly geometry to 3D printed once (design wise how I succeeded to come up with designs for crystals that look like the real ones then 3D printing them) - Biomimicry
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Crystallization showing crystals catalogue studies and growth rate … (chemistry) (glimpse on the experiments behind mimicking the chemistry of crystals growth
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Designing, 3D modeling
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3D printing Crystals