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.
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