By Itsuka Yamasaki (Producer)It's ideal if you have at least one hair and make-up artist on set, but realistically your budget does not always allow for that. With Ambleton Delight, we had a professional (Louise Hart) who was on-set during key days of the shoot (especially scenes involving blood and scars etc -refer to photos below) but did the rest of it ourselves.
We have a basic make-up kit for shoots and below is a list of what we find useful. This kit is mainly used for male actors (if you don’t have access to a professional artist it's often better and safer to ask female actors to do their own make-up) and for contemporary drama films that don’t involve zombies, blood, scars or explosions!
- Translucent powder (soften skin tones)
- Brush (for the powder)
- Facial redness remedy cream
- Concealer or liquid-type foundation (in case someone has a pimple etc)
- Petroleum jelly
- Pocket tissue
- Make-up wipes
- Comb
- Gel or wax (for hair)
- A bag to keep everything together
Before you go ahead and buy the make-up goods, it may pay to ask friends who are into make-up. I have a friend who is a beautician, and when I told her about make-up for film shoots, she gave me lots of goodies, like sample make-up in small bottles, which are ideal for filming.
Above: Actor Jos Lawton having specialised make-upapplied to his hand by make-up artist Louise Hart
on the set of Ambleton Delight.
