Great episode, Luke! Would love to see Jenny in action with the air-brush. Maybe next time... It's very cool to see all of the extra details you add to the background. Your high degree of skill/experience is always evident. Thanks for sharing.
During the big break in work because of Covid when productions shut down I found this channel. Having a visual medium to learn from has helped me absolutely. If I may make a recommendation add a little more content about the coercion of a crew like you did today.
One thing I've always done when interfacing with make-up is to be on alert as to the COLOR TEMPERATURE and purity of the light they are using to make up the talent. They often bring some dodgy old mirror light with funky fluro tubes, or beg a grip to set up an instrument that often winds up being a tungsten unit when you're shooting outdoors, or vise-versa. Then the director is puzzled when the make-up looks "wrong".
Yup, always good practice to give them a light that balances to your on-set temp. Love people who bring their own gear and don’t expect you to furnish everything like the grip truck was a hardware store, but like you say, it can lead to mishaps as well.
This is a super important point - if you have time it's also worth taking some test shots to see if the colour of makeup needs to be tweaked for the camera and it's colour response (even if its looking good to the human eye under the same lighting).
It's actually really surprising how a tungsten fresnel can make skin look even in colour and texture even though it is such a hard light. With makeup, I have also noticed that soft light from LED can actually be less forgiving. Thanks for bringing the makeup atist on, she was great!
Look like lights for gaffer are like claps for woodworker ... you can never have too much :D.
Great episode, Luke! Would love to see Jenny in action with the air-brush. Maybe next time...
It's very cool to see all of the extra details you add to the background. Your high degree of skill/experience is always evident.
Thanks for sharing.
During the big break in work because of Covid when productions shut down I found this channel. Having a visual medium to learn from has helped me absolutely. If I may make a recommendation add a little more content about the coercion of a crew like you did today.
Wonderful and informative.
We still need to do your episode!
One thing I've always done when interfacing with make-up is to be on alert as to the COLOR TEMPERATURE and purity of the light they are using to make up the talent. They often bring some dodgy old mirror light with funky fluro tubes, or beg a grip to set up an instrument that often winds up being a tungsten unit when you're shooting outdoors, or vise-versa. Then the director is puzzled when the make-up looks "wrong".
Yup, always good practice to give them a light that balances to your on-set temp. Love people who bring their own gear and don’t expect you to furnish everything like the grip truck was a hardware store, but like you say, it can lead to mishaps as well.
This is a super important point - if you have time it's also worth taking some test shots to see if the colour of makeup needs to be tweaked for the camera and it's colour response (even if its looking good to the human eye under the same lighting).
It's actually really surprising how a tungsten fresnel can make skin look even in colour and texture even though it is such a hard light. With makeup, I have also noticed that soft light from LED can actually be less forgiving. Thanks for bringing the makeup atist on, she was great!
The best thing I have watched today
The good folks at TRP!