Saturday, 14 March 2015

Continuity. What does it mean and why is it important for films and TV?

    Working a s a Make-up artist on a film set gives you a big amount of responsabilities. First of all it is important to know that make-up artists for a film set are devided in 2 categories, based on the area of the actor's body being made up:
  • A make-up artist who is allowed to apply cosmetics only from the top of the head to the top of the breastbone, from fingertips to wrists and from toes to ankles.
  • A body make-up artist who applies cosmetics as required to any other areas of the actor's body. While the regular make-up artist generally works throughout filming, the body make-up artist is hired per day when needed.
    Film make-up artists also vary with their responsabilities on the set. For example there is Key make-up artists who is in charge with the make-up department of a film. The Key make-up artist is also called Make-up designer(heard more often). This person has to read the script and dicuss with the film director and the screenweiter all the details required in the film. After that the key make-up artist designs the make-ups and the special effects that are going to be used in the film. The key make-up artist also hires additional make-up artists for the film, sets their work schedule and supervises them during production.
    There are also Senior Make-up artists, who oversees the work of the other make-up artists and usually become primarily responsible for continuity. This means making sure that actors' make-up remains the same or changes as filming requires, such as the addition of scars after an accident or evidence of aging as the film progresses.
    Continuity
is a very important detail for a film or TV series. To have a film done usually required a very long time that means that also the scenes are filmed in diferent periods of time. Sometimes the actor needs to be refilmed in the same scene with the same make-up, the same hair-style and the same costume after days or weeks from the previous filming. All the details have to be exactlu the same as they were before, because every film needs to look realistic. For continuity, the make-up artist probably will make his own notes and maybe even shoot photos of the actor in make-up. During the day, the make-up artist or an assistant will touch up the actor's make-up and change it as required by the scenes being filmed.

Links: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-make-up-artist2.htm

No comments:

Post a Comment