Hobo Clown research

The hobo clown is not the traditional sort of stereotypical clown the audience expect.
He has a sad face and the dull and dark colours used on his face dont give him much happiness.

The hobo clown is a North American creation.
James McIntyre and Tom Heath are credited with the creation of the tramp clown characterization in 1874.
The idea of this clown comes from the homeless people who rode the trains across the country looking for jobs.
During the World War I the hobo clown became more and more popular being featured in many shows.

Face appearance:
The male version of this character has a beard that covers a neck and jaw area. The up or down shape of the eyebrows will determine if this is a sad hobo or a happy hobo.
He has quite a dirty face due to the lifestyle he leads.
His nose is red, this still keeps him similar to the other clowns so he isn't completely different.


Heres a list of some famous Hobo clowns

• Nat Wills "The Happy Tramp" (1873-1917)
• Vitaly Lazarenko (-)
• W.C. Fields “Great Tramp Juggler” (1880-1946)
• "Little Tramp" Charlie Chaplain (1889-1977)
• Otto Griebling (1896-1972)
• Emmett "Weary Willie" Kelly, Sr.(1898-1979)
• "Happy" Harold Kellems (1905-1987)
• Red "Freddie the Freeloader" Skelton (1913-1997)
• Mark "Mark Anthony" Galkowski (1915-1990)
• Irvin "Ricky the Clown" Romig (1920-2010)
• Emmett "Weary Willie" Kelly, Jr.(1923-2006)
• "Homer" Don Burda (1935-2008)
• Arthur "Vercoe" Pedlar (1932-present)
• Jim Howle (1939-present)
• W.D. "Curly" Robbins
• "Charlie the Juggling Clown" Bruce Johnson
• Kevin "Sneakers McSilly" Andrews (1964-present)

Here is some images to show examples of hobo clown makeup.

DFTA evaluation

Don't Feed The Animals Evaluation

The area I focused on was makeup.

There was 3 of us who specialised in makeup and we each chose a clown to focus on. The clown I specialised in was the hobo clown. I did research into this character and from this I realised there was a design that seemed very common so I followed this plan. I created my design several times to ensure I was confident how to do it.

Plans changed as when we got to the theatre we lost some time because of the journey which meant there wasn't much time for the cast to get ready. The tech and dress rehearsals were both done with no makeup. And for the actual performance all the actors who were supposed to have makeup decided not to have it as hasn't rehearsed with it and they felt unconfident with it.

There was one character willing to have makeup, Josh who was the first character on stage was playing a drunk clown who has a heart attack. Once he does his opening section and dies he comes off stage and has just minutes to change clothes to
a school boy. Because the decision was made for him to have makeup it meant me and Lindsey, who were working backstage on set changes, were given the job of being ready with makeup wipes to remove it as quickly as possible.

I had to make a quick decision of what makeup to do on him as hadn't planned on doing this.
I chose to make it very simple as the small amount of time to get it off.
I decided on using bright colours as these are eye catching and more clown like.                                                    This was the final look.

 

Thursday 31st January 2013

In this lesson we spent both hours of our lesson working on the tech side of Grease. Me and Jess who both are working on make up discussed together what would be the most effective way of progressing with our make up. We decided that we should start experimenting with make up. It was hard to find someone willing to have face paint put on their face at college but we did find a volunteer, Lindsey. We were very thankful of her as neither me or Jess wanted to have to walk around college with clown make up on. Jess went first and did her design on Lindsey. These are the evidence pictures of what she did.

This is the lips and base
colour of the clown Jess
was woking on. This was
created using face paint.

                              


                              

                                                      These are the eye brows designed by  Jess
                                                          which are created using face paint. They
                                                      add colour to the face and draws attention
                                                                              to the eye.

This is the final outcome of Jess' creation
 as seen on Lindsey. This design is very
 eye catching a colourful, just like a clown.
 We didnt have all the correct resources
 so when we do the real thing we will be using
different and better facepaint.

And then I tried my designs on Lindsey, we were running out of time so I decided to not do the make up fully.  Here is my evidence and some notes describing what I did.

This is the eye section of the makeup. When doing the real version the whole forehead will be white, not just around the eye. I used black face paint to draw on the eye brows, I took quite a while to get the shape. I put the white face paint on using a sponge.

 The next section I worked on was the nose. I had to use a orange shade colour for this as it was the only colour available but on the real version I would use red. This simply adds colour to the face and is a sterotypical thing for a clown to have a red nose so keeps in with tradition.

 The next section was the bottom half of the face. I used black face paint for the lower cheek, under the mouth and under the nose. This black colour represents facial hair. Because this clown is meant to be homeless he needs a rough look and I think this gives it.

Then finally I did the mouth. I chose to try the colour white for this but now I feel this isnt the colour to use and looks strange using the same colour for the head as the lips. I think I will try use red when I next do this. I chose to make the mouth look sad as he is not a happy clown.

Thursday 10th January 2012

This is my information of the production manager:

The production management team (consisting of a production manager and any number of assistants) is responsible for realizing the visions of the producer and the directoror choreographerwithin constraints of technical possibility. This involves coordinating the operations of various production sub-disciplines (scenic, wardrobe,lighting,sound,projection,automation,video,pyrotechnics,stage management, etc.) of the presentation.

In addition to management and financial skills, a production manager must have detailed knowledge of all production disciplines including a thorough understanding of the interaction of these disciplines during the production process.
This may involve dealing with matters ranging from the procurement of staff, materials and services, to freight, customs coordination, telecommunications, labor relations, logistics,information technology, government liaison, venue booking, scheduling, operations management, mending delay problems and workplace safety.

http://www.creative-choices.co.uk/industry-insight/article/theatre-production-manager