TRAINING COURSES & IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAMMS
Film employers are always looking for the best trained artists, immediately operational. A good training, as complete as possible, is therefore what will make you looked after by producers and make-up department heads on actual shootings.
I can offer a practical intensive hands-on training, initial or improvement, to a small number of students (6 to 12 by session) so as to insure each one the best possible attention and care.
I am indeed also available to teach any topic about film make-up on request from any school who would wish so anywhere in the world. Don't hesitate to ask for more infos…
INFORMATIONS AND REGISTRATION
For more information and my miniformations and registrastion, please send me an e-mail here and write in the object the programm(s) you are interested in.
WOUNDS
The very minimum how-to to get you out of most situations.
Module ≠ 1 (simple but still useful)
• Many useful " out-of-the-kit " technics, and not only for wounds, provided that the kit is supplied for in advance. (2 days)
Module ≠ 2 (basic)
• How to design and create prosthetic latex pieces out of simple flat plaster moulds. Application, make up and removal. (2 days)
Module ≠ 3 (medium)
• How to design and create prosthetic pieces out of simple flat silicone moulds in Pros-Aid. Application, make up and specific removal. (2 days)
Module ≠ 4 (advanced)
• How to design and create prosthetic encapsulated gel filled appliances out of silicone moulds. Application, make up and specific removal. (2 days)
FACIAL HAIR
you could not be regarded as a full film makeup artist if you don't do that properly on an international standard
Module # 1 : Le "Hand laying-on" (70 hours = 2 weeks)
• Designing and creating a facial hair piece (beard, moustache, sideburns, eyebrows, etc,…) hand-laid Starting with wool crepe then with real hair. During this course, you'll also learn the "Floated off" technique.
• Those bases will serve you all along your career and will be a strong soil to grow your own experience from.
• Besides, you'll earn all the pieces you'll have made with the floated-off technique, which will be a good saving for you on your next stage show or film shooting and pay you back the session.
Module # 2 : Ventilating (or "knotting" or "tying") (70 hours = 2 weeks)
• Designing and taking cast to have a ventilated piece on net ; make, prepare, style, care those pieces ; cleaning and storage ; tests.
• You'll make at least one of each possible piece, whiskers, mutton chops, chin pieces, beards and eyebrows.
Module # 3 : Application and care of ventilated pieces ; different stubble and unshaved effects. (70 hours = 2 weeks)
• Different ways to apply ventilated pieces with or without overlay ; Care of the recovered pieces and re-styling ;
• Different ways to make a convincing unshaven look or a short beard.
For more infos : alain.folgoas @ free.fr
Not forgetting
FUNDAMENTALS OF FILM MAKE-UP
without them, you could not do anything good.
• The characteristics of your characters according to their period, age and environment. (5 days)
Reminder of basic techniques
• Natural make-ups for ladies and gentlemen on stage, film or TV screen. (2 days)
Highlights and shadows
• From beauty to ageing ; capillary shades. (3 days)
• Latex and plastics ; makings, applications, make-up and removal. (5 days)
• The proper way to use in a realistic way and its limitations.
• Applications, different make-ups, possible facial hair to complete a character, and removal. The hands. (5 days)
ON REQUEST
Other trainings (facial casting, making a nose or an ageing, etc…) are being prepared, and it is always possible to consider making one as per your special request, individual or school.
Please, contact me below for more informations and registration.
SOME REFERENCES OF MY TRAINING-SESSIONS
In 2012 et 2013, I was invited by Métamorphoses, the famous make-up school in Strasbourg (France), to give mini training sessions at laid on facial hair.
In April 2011, I was invited in La Réunion Island by L'institut du Ruisseau, famous local beautician training center, to train in three days some beautician students to do some basic wounds for a film Première. They never saw anything alike before. In spite of so little studying time before the event, they did an awesome job. Congratulations.
See also some chronicles I published (in french).