For my recent assessment, I was asked as an assessment to perform a theatre production. I was put into a group with 3 of my other classmates and we discussed who wanted what job role. I chose theatrical make up and costumes. Theatrical make up: Theatrical make up is makeup used to assist in creating the appearance that actors/actresses portray during a theatre production. History: During Greek and roman times the actors didn’t wear make up and instead wore various masks so that way they were able to portray a specific age, gender or a completely different likeness. In medieval Europe, actors painted their faces for a completely new look by altering their appearances. During the Renaissance, actors were creative and imaginative when making-over …show more content…
Yellow becomes more orange • Flesh pink compliments most makeup. • Fire red ruins makeup. All but the darker flesh tones essentially disappear. Light and medium rouge fade into the foundation, whereas the dark red rouges turn a reddish brown. Yellow becomes orange, and the cool shading colors become shades of gray and black. • Bastard amber is flattering because it picks up the warm pinks and flesh tones in the makeup. • Amber and orange deepens and yellow most flesh colors. They turn rouges more orange. Cool colors are grayed. • Green grays all flesh tones and rouges in proportion to its intensity. Green will be intensified. Yellow and blue will become greener. • Light blue-green lowers the intensity of the base colors. One should generally use very little rouge under this type of light. • Green-blue washes out pale flesh tones, and will gray medium and deep flesh tones, as well as all reds. • Blues gray most flesh tones and cause them to appear more red or purple. • Violet causes orange, flame, and scarlet to become redder. Rouge appears more intense. • Purple affects makeup like violet lighting, except reds and oranges will be even more intense, and most blues will look
Transformation of Costume Selection and Incorporating Props into the performance of Shakespeare's plays of King Richard, Richard the II and Richard III
The Great Gatsby is full of symbolism, colors, for example. Throughout the book the author uses them to represent different themes of the novel. Some of these colors are white, yellow, grey, green, pink, red and blue. However, I picked white and green for my commentary because I think these colors have a special meaning different from the others. White is mainly used to describe the character’s innocence, fakeness, and corruption. While green represents Gatsby’s hopes, ambitions, and dreams. In addition, sometimes green symbolizes the jealousy of certain characters.
9). Toselli noted that Egyptian women used henna to color their nails (2009). The most notable color used to paint their nails was red. However, the color red was reserved for women of power. One example of such women, is Cleopatra, who “…favored a deep rust red” (Toselli, p.9). Women of lower stations “…were permitted only pale hues” (Toselli, p.9). Pales hues refers to light colors. Over the years different ingredients were utilized to create nail stain, varnish all otherwise known as nail polish. According to Toselli, the mixture of Arabic gum, egg whites, gelatin, and beeswax was used by the Chinese. “They also used a mixture of pulped rose for color, or orchid and impatiens petals combined with alum, which, when applied to mails overnight, left a pinkish, reddish stain” (Toselli, p.9). Eventually, ingredients included: scented red oils, powders and creams. It was by accident that it was discovered that “…boiling nitrocellulose made it soluble in organic
In Euripides’ tragic play, Medea, the playwright creates an undercurrent of chaos in the play upon asserting that, “the world’s great order [is being] reversed.” (Lawall, 651, line 408). The manipulation of the spectators’ emotions, which instills in them a sentiment of drama, is relative to this undertone of disorder, as opposed to being absolute. The central thesis suggests drama in the play as relative to the method of theatrical production. The three concepts of set, costumes, and acting, are tools which accentuate the drama of the play. Respectively, these three notions represent the appearance of drama on political, social, and moral levels. This essay will compare three different productions of Euripides’ melodrama, namely, the play as presented by the Jazzart Dance Theatre¹; the Culver City (California) Public Theatre²; and finally, the original ancient Greek production of the play, as it was scripted by Euripides.
The importance of costume in the theatre cannot be rated too highly, for it is not only an outward and immediately visible medium of expression for the actor himself but it is significant of the dramatic values which he is suppose to portray (Brooke, 1). The colors, texture and shape of a costume can create a feeling of the character that the actor may not be able to portray. There is not any definite information on what exactly the Greeks used for costumes because so much time has elapsed since the original records were taken. Most information is based on the different artifacts that were found, such as paintings and pottery. Sometimes hints of what was worn could be found in the plays themselves.
15). Reasoning from this statement, it is very possible, that to be able to create the believable gender image, actors had to wear some type of makeup ( in more recent performance, ‘the thick, white face-paint was applied on grown men as a clear sign of femininity’)( Carson, Cooper,2008: p. 69). Furthermore, as Cooper remarks in Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama, in Shakespearean times, the use of make-up was a sign of power and authority, and this is because of the reason that the Queen Elizabeth was applying the face paint on herself (2006: p. 34). Additionally, the puritan minister Thomas Tuke, in his A Discourse of Painting and Tincturing, by openly engaging against the painting camouflage controversy , provided also an evidence, that pearl was used in Elizabethan era as a make-up ingredient to add the shimmering effect, and to increase actors visibility in the theatre. ( Tuke,
Colour is what is seen when light waves are reflected off a particular material at various frequencies which is then detected by the human eye, of which, the eye is sensitive to reds blues and greens. Colour is said to comprise hue (the root colour), value (light and dark) and saturation (brightness and dullness). (Work With Colour, 2013)
Prosthetic makeup, also known as “movie makeup” or “special effects makeup” is used in many types of media, including movies, plays, television shows, and musicals. This type of makeup was revolutionized by John Chambers in such films as Planet of the Apes and Dick Smith in Little Big Man. A great musical performance that exemplifies prosthetic makeup is Cats. Without prosthetic makeup usage musicals, television, movies and plays would be rather
In the film Luhrman uses costume and makeup to portray characters’ personalities. Such as Shirley Hastings. Shirley’s costume and makeup shows the audience a great deal about her personality. Shirley always wears pink, puts ‘over the top’ makeup on and wears a lot of jewellery. This tells the audience that she is ‘over the top’ and maybe insecure about herself or her past. Liz Holt is another character whose personality could not have been portrayed if it wasn’t for the costume and makeup used. Liz is a drama queen and exaggerates everything including her costume and makeup. She nearly always wears yellow and also exaggerates her makeup with bright colours even when she’s not dancing. Luhrman also used costume and makeup to show the development of one of the main characters, Fran. At the start of the film, Fran is introduced with acne, glasses and baggy clothes, which shows the audience that she is not comfortable with herself and not confident. But when Fran starts dancing she slowly becomes more confident and her costume and makeup changes. Fr...
In either of these environmental conditions, an effect called the purkinje shift occurs due to the changing region of maximal visual acuity of a person’s eyes. At dusk, greens appear more vibrant and intense because rod vision (which begins to take over as illumination decreases) is mostly receptive at medium (green) wavelengths of light, and cone vision sensitivity shifts toward the medium wavelengths of light as well. In order to determine whether the purkinje shift is responsible, it is necessary to ask those perceiving the brighter colors what colors they are experiencing and what time of the day this normally
Color can hide or accentuate a feature. Creating illusions with hair color can also be known as “special effects haircoloring” Using light colors will draw the eye to that specific area, creating more attention. Adding warm light colors will also create the illusion of more volume. Using darker and cooler colors will give the illusion of little volume, and the area to look like it is receding. Special effects haircoloring can create a lot of dimension in the hair. To add dimension in the hair highlighting and reverse highlighting techniques are used (Milady). Adding warm and cool tones, along with light and dark colors will really add dimension especially in darker hair colors. Not only is hair color great for adding natural looking tones in the hair, it is great for adding bold accent looks. Bold accent looks can range from coloring the tips purple to coloring the entire underneath of the hair bright
A person learns what color the glow stick is shortly after bending them. The color of the glow stick depends on the dye chemical. Red glow sticks have Rhodamind B inside of them. Orange Glow sticks have the chemical 5,12-bis (phenylethynyl) naphthacene or Rhodamine 6G. Green glow sticks use the dye
Mood. Colors affect our mood. It is said that warm colors tend to evoke feelings such as happiness, stimulation, motivation, and even aggression. Meanwhile, cool colors tend to evoke feelings such as sadness, tiredness, relaxation, and calmness. The participants will explain how a color affected their mood (See appendix B).
Since kabuki actors sometimes have to portray a female, dress and cosmetics play an important role in the performances. Costumes used are elaborate, detailed, and show the traditional dress of historical Japan. The primary form of cosmetics is called kumadori. The Asia Society's 1988 Video Letter: Noh and Kabuki translates kumadori as "making shadows" (1).
Livescience. “Red-Green & Blue-Yellow: The Stunning Colors You Can't See.” Livescience.com. 2014. Web. 30 October 2013. .