Getting ready for the prom

Note: Anyone looking for sketch crawl pics... dont worry. I'll have them up by FRIDAY.

As I may or may not have previously mentioned, roommate Sophia is taking movie special fx classes. This encompasses many many things, the main emphasis being on MONSTER MAKEUP.

"Monster Makeup?" You say, "What's that?"

Well, my naive reader, monster makeup, aptly put, is the makeup that is done behind the scenes to make "monsters" look convincible in front of the camera. It can consist of the smallest cuts and bruises to full-fledge head and body prosthetics. And this process, specifically if you want it to look believable (which most, if not all, filmmakers do), can only be done by a select group of people.

Enter the FX team.

Suffice it to say that no good FX team is fresh out of the batch. Nope... each and every player must go through years and years of practice until they can even be CONSIDERED good enough to be part of this complex cast. Sophia (and her classmates), must do the same. And what else are roommates for, if not for practice?

:)

So last Thursday and Friday Me, Chris, and Louie went to help out (Louie for only thursday). For 6-7 hours (8am to 2pm-ish) each day we sat in little actor chairs while they polished they trade. AND THEY DID AN AWESOME JOB! Ignore all of the above, I think we got some pros up in this house!


We brave few


Meesey and Louie lost their hair!


Maybe I should have washed my face better?...


Prosthetics. Beautiful. Who needs plastic surgery?


L to R: Luis the dead punk zombie, Meesey the jolly young st. nick, and Me the leper


Leprecy rocks!


Chris and Louie, and pumpkin head...


End of Day #1... Summer tired...


Me on Day #2... and some new molds


Sophia GLUES the skin cap on me. That's right: GLUE


5 of the maybe 12 prosthetics used


Final blow: Fire Victim. How disgustingly delicious!


Taking it off... Sophia looks tired, because this one took almost 8 hours.


Me, free, and happy.

Cool huh? If you notice, each pile of monster mash took from 6-8 hours. Puts a new light on those actors who have to do a full day's worth of acting/action AFTER going through all that, huh? Mucho respect.

And yes, of course I kept it. But then I threw it away, cuz it started to smell :)