What training and experience do you have?
Alana completed her diploma of
specialist make-up services in 2010 and since then has undertaken many
industry educational opportunities and placements. In 2014 Alana completed her certificate three in hairdressing. Ed has trained with
a number of currently practicing special make-up effects professionals: has traveled
to the UK and completed Neill Gorton's world class prosthetics and
animatronics course in 2012 and trained with Emmy Award winner Brian
Sipe. Recently Ed has worked with Steve Boyle FX on a sci-fi thriller
feature shot out of the Docklands Studios in Melbourne. In 2014 Ed worked on a telemovie for the Sy-Fy network as a creature creator then and an eight part war TV mini-series for channel 9.
Where are you based?
We
are currently based in Melbourne Australia, but can operate worldwide, within Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe. Ed has
dual citizenship for Australia and the UK and Alana holds a five year
work visa for the UK.
How much pre-production time is required?
How much do you charge?
This
depends on the project. Please feel free to get in touch with us for a
quote. However, before we can quote for your project we'll need a full brief and/or copy
of the script or storyboards and as much additional information as possible about the
special effects, prosthetics and make-up requirements that will be needed to
tell your story as well as the overall total budget for your film, tv series or advertisement.
The following diagram is a useful way of thinking about a project.
Most prosthetic character make-ups designed to fit an actor require adequate pre-production time and adequate access to an actor before commencing shooting. This pre-production time can be broken into seven steps: 1. design and planning, 2. life-casting, 3. master moulding the lifecasts, 4. sculpting, 5. mould-making, 6. fabrication and then any 7. finishing work. Designs incorporating animatronics or puppetry also need further time again for mechanization. There is also significant work involved in clean up in between processes, communications, managing logistics alongside planning and purchasing. Depending on the complexity this work can take anywhere between 4-12 weeks pre-production time.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for reading.
