Stage, TV & Film

• Analysis and comparison of commercial and professional products. Work station and location set-ups.
• The professional make-up kit as per current union and industry requirements.
• Lighting differences for stage, television and film.
• Lighting, film stocks and their effect on make-up.
• Personality, presentation on professionalism.
• Working with daily call sheets.
• How to read a script and list make-up requirements for various characters.
• Script breakdown and continuity techniques, essential skills in all electronic media.
• Creating the physical make-up look for a scripted character. Communicating the character's physical look with the actor, director and other key players.
• Budget estimates and time limitations.
• Application techniques for cremes and water colours.
• Body make-up and tattoo cover for film.
• TV make-up procedures for men and women: Includes basic make-ups, correction and concealing, newscaster style, sitcom style, "soap" style and character make-ups.
• Video make-up procedures for men and women.
• Film make-up procedures for men and women.
• "Drag" make-up.
• Introduction to stage make-up: highlight and shadow, ageing with paint.
• Applying and removing beard shadow and beard stipple, hair graying.
• Wrinkles, veins, liver spots, broken capillaries and hand make-up.
• Designing a character. Working with transparency charts. Developing a basic ageing make-up into a character make-up.
• Written and Practical Final Exams.