Combined Media Make-Up & Hairdressing

This course combines the 10 week Media Make-Up Course and 2 weeks of the Media Hairdressing Course. By attending the 12 week course a huge saving is made, rather than attending the courses individually.

10 Week Media Make-Up Course Content Overview

Week 1

• Day 1
  • Course introduction
  • Kit familiarisation/ care & development
  • Portfolio introduction
  • Skin care, skin types and face shapes
  • Creating make-up for camera (studio lighting, natural light, foundation, concealer and powder (types and applications)
  • Shading and highlighting (types and applications)
• Day 2
  • Natural make-up for high fashion close up photography (no make-up looks, matt & dewy / shimmer & colour)
  • Camouflage make-up
• Day 3
  • Eyebrows and eyebrow correction
  • Lip shapes and lip shape correction
  • Eye shapes and eye shape correction
• Day 4
  • Bridal make-up (services, advertising & fees)
  • Evening make-up/ smokey eyes
• Day 5
  • Classic catwalk uniform make-up
  • Eyeliner (cake, gel, fluid, pencil & kohl)

Week 2

• Day 6
  • Male model make-up
  • Current trend make-up (creating looks under direction to brief)
• Day 7
  • 20 minute make-up applications to a brief demo & practical body make-up (incl. corrective make-up, foundation, applications, muscle definition, shading & hand make-up)
  • Make-up for black & white photography (film)
• Day 8
  • Glamour make-up
  • High fashion eye make-up styles, techniques & product knowledge
• Day 9
  • Beauty make-up
  • Working on set (set protocol, where stand, Polaroid’s & digital cameras, final checks, working with photographers, understanding set equipment, health and safety on set)
  • Mature model make-up
• Day 10
  • Black, Asian & oriental make-up
  • Waxing out eyebrows
  • Practice session

Week 3

• Day 11
  • Straight corrective make-up for TV & film (male & female)
  • Working in high definition
  • Understanding crew roles/ titles, working with monitors
• Day 12
  • Careers work (CV’s, composition cards, marketing, advertising, unions, insurance, registration protocol, tax, NI, go sees, castings, networking contacts, invoicing & fees, dailies)
  • Eyelash application
• Day 13
  • Body painting & creative design – demo
  • Tattoos (artwork, character, freehand, stencils, stamps & transfers)
• Day 14
  • Stage make-up (straight, character and ageing)
  • Stage wounds
• Day 15
  • Working with briefs, treatments & scripts (incl. different types of briefs/ treatments, script / character breakdown & budgeting)
  • Continuity
  • Script breakdown & continuity exercise
  • Practice session

Week 4

• Day 16
  • Bald cap making
  • Character make-up
• Day 17
  • Researching for TV & film
  • Stubble effects & laying on hair
  • Dealing with problems (chapped lips, hyper-sensitive skin, reactions, skin conditions, watering eyes, excess sweating & post surgery)
• Day 18
  • Bald cap application & make-up
• Day 19
  • Practice of body painting/ creative design
• Day 20
  • Recap & portfolio practice

Week 5 – High Definition Airbrushing

• Day 21
  • Tools, equipment, materials & kits
  • Product knowledge
  • Trouble shooting
  • Foundation applications
• Day 22
  • Shading and highlighting
  • Cheek colour
• Day 23
  • Eye shadow & eyebrows
  • Full body make-up application
  • Body shading and highlighting
  • Tanning & muscle definition
• Day 24
  • Casualty effects (incl. death, stencil & tattoo work, veins and bruising)
• Day 25
  • Casualty effects continued

Week 6 – Period Make-Up

• Grecian
• Roman
• 1820s
• 1840s
• Victorian
• 1910
• 1920s
• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s

Week 7 & 8 – Special FX

• Tools, equipment & materials
• Health and safety
• Bruising (ageing of bruises)
• Black eyes, broken nose & split lip
• Scabs, spots & blisters
• Illness make-up
• Tooth enamel
• Sweat & tears
• Dirt, mud, puss & soot
• Bullet wounds (entry & exit)
• Scratches & grazes
• Burns make-up (1st, 2nd & 3rd degree, different types of burns)
• Slit wrist
• Stitched wound
• Laying on hair & attaching pieces onto bald caps
• Ageing for TV & film
• Death make-up
• Vein work
• Drug addict & track marks
• Stab, puncture wounds & glass injuries
• Script simulation
• Zombie, horror, fantasy & sci-fi make-up
• Pre-made prosthetic application, make-up application, removal & artist care
• Sculpting & mould making of scars & wounds

Week 9 – Fashion Styling

Week 10 – Portfolio Week

2 Week Media Hairdressing Course Overview

This course offers intensive training in all skills relevant to media hairdressing.

Media Hairdressing is not to be confused with salon hairdressing. You will learn how to style and dress hair for the camera.

It is considered to be 50% of your skill base and is an essential skill of all make-up artists. Hair and make-up go hand in hand. Gone are the days when separate make-up and hair artist were employed on jobs. People who train only in make-up will get little or no work, as their skills and abilities are limited.

This course will take you from basic hair techniques, through creative fashion looks, styling and dressing hair for the camera, through to fantasy/futuristic creations to wig work and intricate period styles. You will leave this course with the confidence and skills to achieve any style desired.

Portfolios

Your portfolio is your main and essential tool for gaining work. All areas of media require a professional portfolio. You will work alongside professional modelling agencies, meaning that your make-ups will be done on professional fashion models and photographed by a professional fashion photographer in a real working studio.

School Of Make-Up is the only make-up training school that offer their students this facility to this level. Your portfolio is a crucial part of your career, meaning that when you leave you will be able to search for work immediately, showing each prospective employer your skills. Leaving without a portfolio will mean that you will have to struggle with photographers for test shots in order to develop a portfolio.