SFX MAKE-UP
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Category: Individual
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Value: 15 Points
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Time: 3 weeks
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YOUR TASK
Learn how to apply one SFX make-up technique and use it to change the appearance of your actor. For example, you might add a bruise, a bleeding wound, old age, scales, or even a removable finger! Photograph or film (30 seconds) your make-up effect in an interesting way that adds context and realism to your make-up. For example, you could film your actor being 'punched' which results in their black eye. Or you could film a zombie biting off your actor's finger, complete with oozing blood! |
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What is SFX Make-Up?
Special effects (SFX) make-up is used to simulate change the appearance of an actor or model for film, television or photography. It can simulate wounds, change how old a person looks, add deformities or fantastical features (e.g. horns, scales), or even transform them into a completely different creature.
SFX make-up needs to look as realistic as possible, even when creating something fantastical, so that the audience believes that it is real and forgets that they are watching an actor wearing make-up. Therefore, it is important for SFX make-up artists to do lots of research so that they understand what 'look' they are trying to create. For example, when creating a bruise on an actor's face, the make-up artist needs to understand where and how the character was hit, what they were hit by, and how different areas on the face bruise (because bruising happens differently on fleshy areas vs bony areas).
Special effects (SFX) make-up is used to simulate change the appearance of an actor or model for film, television or photography. It can simulate wounds, change how old a person looks, add deformities or fantastical features (e.g. horns, scales), or even transform them into a completely different creature.
SFX make-up needs to look as realistic as possible, even when creating something fantastical, so that the audience believes that it is real and forgets that they are watching an actor wearing make-up. Therefore, it is important for SFX make-up artists to do lots of research so that they understand what 'look' they are trying to create. For example, when creating a bruise on an actor's face, the make-up artist needs to understand where and how the character was hit, what they were hit by, and how different areas on the face bruise (because bruising happens differently on fleshy areas vs bony areas).
TUTORIALS
There are LOTS of tutorials online for all sorts of SFX make-up, so feel free to find your own tutorials about particular effects that you are interest in.
To get you started, this website links to a bunch of different tutorials for wounds/injuries: https://mixxsfx.com/10-special-effects-makeup-ideas-for-beginners/
The first video below includes the scar wax recipe that was used in the workshop at school. There are lots of different recipes for fake blood, but the one we used in the workshop was golden syrup + cocoa powder + red food dye.
There are LOTS of tutorials online for all sorts of SFX make-up, so feel free to find your own tutorials about particular effects that you are interest in.
To get you started, this website links to a bunch of different tutorials for wounds/injuries: https://mixxsfx.com/10-special-effects-makeup-ideas-for-beginners/
The first video below includes the scar wax recipe that was used in the workshop at school. There are lots of different recipes for fake blood, but the one we used in the workshop was golden syrup + cocoa powder + red food dye.
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EXAMPLES (using cheap homemade make-up and blood)
