Resources for make-up & hair trainees in the UK

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Kick-ass reading for those down days…

Are you motivated enough to make your way in the film industry ? This post is about everyone to want to succeed, in any field. I think it’s a goo read for everyone, you may want to bookmark it et come back to it anytime you feel down because work isn’t coming enough. Here is… Continue Reading

Filming : the paper side of things.

(this article is part of the make-up trainee diary started here ) When you start a film, you are given a lot of papers, and you make a lot of your own. Let’s list them and then go back to each one for details. The script the one-line schedule the call sheets the movements of… Continue Reading

A trainee’s diary – 2

At the end of prep time, the last thing I had to do was helping out setting up the make-up bus. That’s really important because the efficiency and comfort of the work will depend on a a good setting, and on your memory of what’s where. First, the make-up artists decide which station is more… Continue Reading

Diary of a trainee on a feature film

Each week, I will go through an aspect of my work or a step of the filmmaking process. Let’s start at the source : prep time.