Filming "Endless"

I am soooo excited to be the Make-Up artist for a short film production!!! It's for the 2010 100-Hour Short Film Grand Prix, a competition where filmmakers have 100 hours to complete a short film, from concept to final, finished product.

My team received the theme on Thursday night, and have until 11:59pm on Monday night to have the film uploaded, for public voting, where winners receive prizes. The theme for this year is "Forever" and the prop is "Photograph".

It's a small team with David Beleznay as Director, we have 1 Producer (Sam who also doubles as an actor), 1 Cameraman (Phillip), 1 Sound Engineer (Agah, again he doubles as an actor), 2 actors (Tim and Tomoko), myself as Make-up Artist, and my husband Dave as photographer and Lighting Tech.

They spent Thursday night and Friday coming up with story and script. Saturday we were filming, and today, Sunday, they are editing it in the next room, as I type this blog. The director, David, and the Sound Engineer, Agah, came over to edit as Dave has Adobe Premier Pro on our computer, which is the program they are using.

Filming on Saturday was fun! We drove up to Squamish first thing in the morning, to Shannon Falls, where we spent about 4 hours scouting locations and filming. It was freezing!!! Then we drove back into town where we filmed more scenes in a parking lot, skytrain, etc. We were done filming at about 1:00 am. This is good practice for me as I want to be a Make-up Artist in the Film Industry, where 20 hour days are not uncommon.

Here are some pictures:

These were taken at Shannon Falls, where I had to put real dirt on Tim's face, as his character has been on the run for a while now as he stumbles across the woods.

For Tomoko's scenes in the parking lot, I did a subtle smoky eye with light blue shimmery highlights with false lashes, and a dark red lip.

These last 2 pictures were taken at about 1:00 am. I look pretty bushed LOL!

(Edit: Pubic voting is only open to residents of New York, so we can't vote. But I hope we win!!)

Glam Practical Exam

For the exam, I re-created the "Disco Glam" look. For her lips, I still used the same shade lipstick then lipgloss, then I topped it off with a sprinkle of pink glitter.

For her hair, big, wavy, glamorous curls.

Glam Practice Run

My friend Christina came over so I can do "Disco Glam" practice run on her. For her eyes, I used green glitter and black and green eyeshadow, with false lashes. Cheeks and lips are pretty dramatic as well. For her lips, I used a frosty pinkish-brown lipstick topped with a coat of shiny pink lipgloss.

Glam Exam photos up next!

Decades Practical Exam

Here are the pictures from my exam. I did the pastel blue eyes, pastel pink lips, and top and bottom lashes. For her hair, backcombing to create the puffy hair of the 60s, and topped off with a 60s inspired headband.

Next up are pictures of my practice run on my Glam Exam

Practice Run for my Decades Practical

My friend Natasha came over about 2 weeks ago so I can do a practice run on her before my actual Decades Practical Exam, which she had volunteered to be the model.

I had chosen to do the 1960s Twiggy look. So for her colors I chose a pastel blue for the eyes, and pastel pink for the lips. I also got fake top and bottom lashes.

Next up are pictures from my actual Practical Exam.

Learning the Decades

For the past 3 weeks I've been learning make-up and hair for different decades: 1920s, 1930, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Even though I like some of them more than others, one of my goals is to have a photoshoot of all of the different decades, complete with costumes and accessories. As soon as my schedule clears up a bit to work on this, I will. In the meantime, I will post some pics of what I've done so far in class.

These pictures are of my classmate Alyssa. I did 1920s on her. This was the Depression Era, so the look is "sad china doll"

I glued her eyebrows down and covered them up with tattoo cover up, as 1920s eyebrows were specifically super thin and straight and drooped down. Lips are a "bee-stung" red.

For Alyssa's eyebrows, I went a bit more subtle with the sadness. Some 1920s make-up can be very theatrical with the eyebrows sooooo sad, especially in silent films. For her hair, instead of finger waves, since her hair is alrealy naturally curly, I just went with a simple bun.

When I do my own photoshoot for this decade, I will do a 1920s flapper girl. I have already sourced warbrobe, which includes flapper dress, feather boa, thigh-high fishnet stockings with stilettos, feathered headdress and a cigarette holder. I have been inspired as I had just finished watching Season 2 of True Blood on DVD. In one of the episodes, Bill has a flashback of his time with his maker, I forget her name, and it was 1920s. So the girls were all in 1920s garb, hair and make-up. Now I just have to find the time to do this.

For my next post, I will post pictures of 1960s Twiggy look with Big Beehive hair, and 1970s Disco Glam.

Practicing on Kasi and Aki

Last Saturday I got my friend Kasi to come over so I can practice Smoky Eyes on her.

And sometime last week I practiced on Aki in class.

Again, these are taken with my automatic camera. Dave took some photos with Kasi's SLR and I have to get it from her so I can post them here. For now, these will do.

Smoky Eyes on Kasi

Evening EyeMake-up on Aki sans foundation

Day to Night Make-up Practical

For this, I had my classmate Aki as my wonderful partner and model.

The first 3 photos are from Thursday when I did the "dry run" or practice. The rest of them are from my actual exam.

It's a complete color correction, and day make-up application. Then I had to turn it into evening make-up / smokey eyes complete with false eyelashes. She was kind enough to help me with styling her hair, then we did the photoshoot.

These pictures are taken with my automatic, so they are not the greatest, so I will have to invest in an SLR soon. Our teacher / photographer took some nice professional photos of my final work though, but I haven't gotten a copy of it yet.

I was pretty happy with it, for my first ever practical exam. Next exam is Decades, we chose a decade between 1920s to 1970s, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do a 1920s flapper girl, complete with flapper girl costume.

Finally! School has started!

I've been waiting months for school to start, and it finally has! It's actually been 2 weeks since school started.

I'm finally doing something I've wanted to do for more than 10 years! It look me a while to get here, like travelling on a long, crooked path with a blindfold on, not really knowing where I'm going. And now I'm finally on the path I want to be on!

I'm doing a one-year diploma: Fashion and Film Make-Up Design.

I created this blog to document my progress.

I feel like a geek sometimes, I'm such a keener. I sit at the very front for demos and ask a lot of questions. I plan out my practical exams ahead of time with booking models, planning out costumes, etc. I also organize my own personal photoshoots during the weekends.

The first photos I'll put up are samples of work I've done on my classmates, as well as my first Practical Exam last Friday, which was Day to Night Make-up.

And now... on to the first photos!!!