Face Off Season 5
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Scareb
Sr Member
I won't lie, it ultimately boils down to sexy women. Guaranteed that as much as they target the female audience, their target audience are guys. They emphasize pretty girls in costumes and some of them flaunt TnA.
I don't agree at all with male costumes not being as interesting because there are tons of cool and very intricate costumes but lets face it, the target audience doesn't want to see abs and a dick bulge in tight pants.
I don't agree at all with male costumes not being as interesting because there are tons of cool and very intricate costumes but lets face it, the target audience doesn't want to see abs and a dick bulge in tight pants.
Scareb
Sr Member
I wish they'd change it up a little for the season finale. Keep the whole team up with members sent home challenge, but instead of a couple days, give them a couple weeks. Give them the opportunity to really show what they can do given more time. I guarantee they could come up with some amazing characters.
I'd love all of these shows to give the contestants a more generous deadline. Project Runway does that (the finalists go home and make a 12-piece collection for the final show, they get 12 weeks and a set budget to buy materials) and it hasn't hurt their brand or ratings one bit, everyone I've talked to who watch that show think the final collection is the best thing about it.
Scareb
Sr Member
It seems the producers are more concerned with the tension of time limits than they are with seeing an awesome makeup. If the contestants had a couple weeks to do their final makeups, it would give them a chance to fully design their character(s) and also allow for anything that screws up along the way. Take Anothony's infernal core character from last season. He designed and molded a chest piece but it got stuck in the mold and he didn't have time to dig it out and finish the rest of the character so he abandoned it and pretty much threw a garbage bag on him. Even though he won anyways, his character would of been even more insane with that chest piece.
The only good thing I can think of with the super-fast deadlines is evening out the field so that the most experienced/technically skilled can't simply outbuild the opposition without having a strong concept and design. In the early episodes the time-limits allow young, creative artists an opportunity to compete against someone with decades of experience with molds and materials. However, in the end everyone is well-rounded and the time limit doesn't serve to do much but limit the final result.
Scareb
Sr Member
Yeah, the thing with that is that time limit ultimately doesn't matter in terms of fairness. 3 days or 3 weeks, the person with more experience generally will do better. They're not all on equal footing. Even in past seasons they've had body painters with very little sculpting and fx experience and the one guy was the first to leave.
Out of the range of attributes needed to win, I believe that nothing beats experience and the confidence it breeds.
Though, to use Project Runway example (which is a fairly similar show in structure), one season was won by someone who couldn't sew her own designs when she was accepted into the competition, so she had a couple of months to teach herself how to construct and sew her designs. Still, with the exception of one or two episodes, she placed in the top every time. Her success was mostly by virtue of having excellent taste and visual design skills, but she was technically a novice craftsperson with no formal background.
Though, to use Project Runway example (which is a fairly similar show in structure), one season was won by someone who couldn't sew her own designs when she was accepted into the competition, so she had a couple of months to teach herself how to construct and sew her designs. Still, with the exception of one or two episodes, she placed in the top every time. Her success was mostly by virtue of having excellent taste and visual design skills, but she was technically a novice craftsperson with no formal background.
Kerr Avon
Master Member
I just don't get why a guy with no sculpting experience, fabrication experience, thinks he's going to be able to compete with people who have it.
Scareb
Sr Member
I have no idea. I mean yeah, paint is just as important as the prosthetic makeup but on this show, you can't do one without the other.
Scareb
Sr Member
Not a bad episode. That Sam girls bride was a complete ripoff of scorpius from Farscape though. Also that Lima chick is lucky as all hell that this was a Frankenstein challenge because her prosthetic was toast. This show is no place for body painters that have almost no experience in sculpting. I'm sure she'll be going home next week.
As for that cosplay show, I love that that yay a chick goes after Jessica Nigri for only relying on sex appeal for costumes when her **** hang out on all the costumes I've seen so far. Hypocrisy knows no limits.
As for that cosplay show, I love that that yay a chick goes after Jessica Nigri for only relying on sex appeal for costumes when her **** hang out on all the costumes I've seen so far. Hypocrisy knows no limits.
Kerr Avon
Master Member
What little I saw of the Face Off was good, I'll have to catch it on the replay. As for the cosplay show, it's looking like a lot of people don't even create their own costumes in this. If you don't do it from start to finish, I didn't think you could enter it as your own creation. The Tron dress wasn't wired up by her, so she should be disqualified immediately. So really, it should be titled "Cosplay Models" since they're not wearing their own creations.
Remember last week, when Victoria's boyfriend could not make it out to the con, she was lost on how to put the embroidered pieces around the edge of the costume and she just gave up. She said without her boyfriend there to help, she just couldn't do it. So that makes me wonder if he is the force behind all her builds?
Skaught
Sr Member
The costume contest I run at MegaCon (on next week's episode...look for me!) has no rules about who made the costume. It's simply judging the costume itself. I do read the descriptions so the judges take into account how something was made and by who. But someone could enter with a store bought costume if they wanted. Doesn't really happen though.
Scott
Scott
Scareb
Sr Member
If that's the case then he's getting the short end of the stick, especially when she outright beats around the bush about the costume and her involvement in it which apparently means he had none. Like I don't know thing one about cosplay so obviously from what I gathered, everything is better when it's handmade but is it looked down on if the person has help or only if the person has no skill and everything is made for them to model?
I'm just curious as to how much in reality these cosplayers are like they are on the show. I mean the show is obviously scripted to some extent but how much of it is real. Same goes with editing. I mean is that scruffy rebel chick really that much of a bitch to her husband/in real life or is it just scripts and editing.
Either way, at this point I can't stand that Yaya girl. She's got this holier than though thing going for her and she's a hypocrit to boot.
