From the course: Video Pre-production for Low-Budget Films

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Getting talent ready

Getting talent ready

- The same way we test our cameras, make sure the lenses are clean, test our lighting setups, we need to consider the makeup and wardrobe strategies if we want to call them that. We met with our actress a few days before the shoot, and went through several different outfits that would best fit the story. The same happened with the makeup artist. Our actress was much younger than the character in our story. So, we talked extensively on how could we age the woman without looking fake? - This is a beautiful, beautiful woman, okay? And what we want to do is we want to add years to her life. So, I'm just taking what's, what her natural facial expressions like for instance, like makeup, like smile real hard. See? And all I'm doing is I'm emphasizing where her face... - [Voiceover] Wow. - [Woman] Stretches. - [Voiceover] This is often an overlooked aspect of low budget productions, but a very small investment can truly transform a person into the perfect character. So, all these…

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