PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP ARTIST (Grades 9-12)
(Working in Film, Television, and Theatre)
SECTION I: This series offers tips and guidelines from the most successful specialist media training provider in the UK. She's a unique breadth of experience having spent 10 years at the BBC, (among her numerous credits are Z-Cars, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix on Top of the Pops, David Copperfield and Midsummer Night's Dream), followed by freelancing for 20 years on pop promos such as The Rolling Stone's 'Too much Blood', commercials, photographic shoots and feature films. She served as personal make-up artist to Dudley Moore on Santa Claus - The Movie and to Nastassja Kinski on Revolution. She has also trained a generation of top-class professional make-up artists. She counts Oscar and BAFTA winners among her graduates and her fellow teachers. There are step by step photographs in this series that are truly amazing; as a whole it is a comprehensive assembly of all the information that a makeup artist needs and is essential both for the novice and professional. The author makes the point that the makeup in 'Gone with the Wind' was designed for a 1930s audience. The website for the author's training school claims Oscar nominees amongst her graduates; this is the info they started with.
SECTION II: This series explains clearly and precisely the differing approaches to stage-lit, audience-attended television taping; studio-lit, no-audience taping; live television with natural outdoor lighting; live stage make-up; and the innumerable techniques and methods of film make-up. In addition, the basic, day-to-day 'paint and powder' procedures that are the bulk of any professional make-up artist's work. It also describes exciting new visual effects that can be achieved using puppetry, digital computing, and electronic coloration. This resource covers all of the current studio make-up methods and lab techniques, with text and art contributions from some of the leading experts in the industry. It explains clearly and precisely the differing approaches to stage-lit, audience-attended television taping; studio-lit, no-audience taping; live television with natural outdoor lighting; live stage make-up ; and the innumerable techniques and methods of film make-up. Included are:
* Revised make-up charts for men and women
* New special effects make-up photographs
* New information on contact lenses and dental work
* Updated information on film types
* Revised appendices.
SECTION III: This series is extremely well organized into three sections. The first one covers the basics of what you need to know about each part of your face, how to apply makeup to each, which tools to use and how to enhance and get the most benefit from your strongest features. The second one shows you makeovers done on ordinary people that look like you and me. It includes before and after pictures that show the impact of well-applied makeup on every kind of skin and color combination. The third section is the most impressive part of the book. It shows known celebrities made up like other celebrities that have established iconic looks over the years. unbeatable tips on the basics of makeup application and technique. Then it shows you how to use these fundamentals in all kinds of interesting and unconventional ways, with step-by-step directions for dozens of different looks. It also features instructional full-color sketches with each face, a gallery of noncelebrity transformations,
a really wonderful lesson on facial bone structure that really helps to understand how contouring and highlighting certain areas is really important to bring out a person's features. It's clearly illustrated step-by-step, making them extremely easy to follow.
What would a complete makeup artist course be without, makeup? Incomplete, of course! Therefore, there's a tidy, glitzy and glamourous makeup kit included with course for the student to try their hand at what they've learned.
Career Kit Price: Professional Makeup Artist: $ 377.00 (including shipping)
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