Posted on February 21, 2010.
What are the most common types of special effects / makeup injury / Fantasy you had to do onstage? I am a makeup artist and I'll be teaching only one class of one hour stage makeup this weekend for teachers of drama and want to present the most relevant information to assist with special effects / makeup injury Fantasy / school for the stage. What do you think I teach? (I'll also try to answer any specific questions you have for me too.)
I do not know if you call Spirit Gum makeup, but I used to keep a mask on my face when I played the Phantom of the Opera production of my school. It worked great, but it takes about 20-30 minutes to delete it from your face lol.
Old age is the most common requirement for the theater. After that, I'd say that bruises and scars. Not much call for wild prosthetic makeup.
I am a costume designer, and my most recent show I had a character that has been slowly hemmorhaging to death if we do thick streams of blood from its eyes, nose and mouth using a combination of Ben Nye thick blood, and Ben Nye pungent mint.
Another study in the same show (a festival of short plays), which was designed by a friend of mine had a wife who was killed by a bash in the head. My friend has used a technique of strengthening the wax to make it look like his skull was fractured, and I think she has even managed to get the effect of pieces of brain.
