Our training for TV, Film & Theatre make-up is suitable for those with little or no professional experience, plus hairdressers and those who have previously trained in fashion make-up and now wish to extend their skills.
The course will include the following:
- Advertising trends and fashion magazines
- Sultry smudgy eyes
- 2 special occasion make-ups
- 1 photography sessions
- Straight corrective make-up – male and female
- Ageing – face, neck and hands including use of ageing latex and green marble
- Period make-up and hair – including 1920s, Victorian and Edwardian, 1940s, 1960s
- Special effects – including bruising, open wounds, bullet wounds, cauliflower ears, track marks, scratches, burns, stitched wounds, nose in wax and eyebrow alteration using wax and soap, scar moulding material, gelatine and latex
- Oriental – make-up
- Special projects – including clowns and animals, period work, editorial and bridal.
- Hairdressing – heated rollers and hot tongs, roller wet setting and period styles
- Attaching hair pieces – including clusters, switches, wefts and back pieces
- Knotting & tonging – moustache, side-burns or beard; care and application of facial hair and laying on hair
- Bald caps – application of vinyl bald caps
- Tattoo – techniques
- Airbrushing – demonstration of airbrushed make-up and stencilling
- Work viewed on HD camera and HD monitor
- Health and Safety
- Talk by make-up designer
- Working from story line
- Discussion of script research and continuity – including breaking down scripts
- Studio + film crews – explanation of relevant job descriptioN
- Business procedures – discussion on handling and laying out invoices and business cards, and preparing portfolio and CV
- Agency – discussion about work experience from our agency with a view to progressing to paid work.
