I took up the opportunity to earn a quick buck and learn how a film is actually done. How?

Aries asked me to fill in for her as make-up artist (note: professional one) for a 1-day filming assignment due to school. I am supposed to be a professional make-up artist in the crew's eyes, not a cosplayer that happens to know make-up and styling. I had to say it was not a bad experience and i'm lucky enough that the actors did not need a lot of make-up. Lunch was even provided~ What scared me was the cameraman, who was the person that Aries liaised with to contact me, began to dig into my relationship with Aries. Asking how we met and what we worked together on before. Then came the "i have another opportunity for you." thing, i did not know if it's alright to say i have a day job...

The wig that had to be worn strangled the inner cosplayer in me. It was a rented wig! All worn out and loose! I was informed it's supposed to be for a crazy scientist but it was flattened due to storage when i laid eyes upon it. Being a rental, i'm not allowed to use any wax or hair spray to style it. HOW TO ROUGHEN IT UP? I spent 10 minutes thrashing the limp wig in an attempt to loosen the cheap fibres and fluff it up.... Wig is done!

Make-up... What make-up? The mad scientist is a Caucasian, foundation is gonna cover up his redness and stubble, making him look less of a caucasian and mad scientist, so we skipped that. The 2nd actor, who is an uncle playing as a uncle, also did not need make-up. Wear and conceal his wrinkles meh? I only needed to stick on his prosthetics (already prepared by Aries ahead of time), which is a huge disgusting hairy mole and a long yellowed pinky fingernail. Make-up done! \o/

The rest of the 6 hours duration was spent being on stand by in case anything screwed up. Watching the filming is kind of boring, the advertisement storyboard made absolutely no sense nor logic. And i thought the storyboard is supposed to be already finalized on filming? Not improvise as it progresses? I do not sense the logic of this mentos advertisement... It's like for some filming school project with the DSLR video recorder.

- Scientist has formula for new mentos flavor.
- Said scientist has been captured and locked in a "torture" chamber, which is a room that's like a small music studio.
- He is sitting in a chair waiting for his tormentor. (note: he was not tied up)
- I did not understand why his chest hair was involved... -___-
- Uncle enters room.
- Uncle proceeds to "torture" scientist. With bad karaoke singing, his smelly feet, icky fingernail and mole hair.
- Scientist gave up and reveals secret formula.

WHO THE FUCK WROTE THIS SHIT!?

The scriptwriter happened to be on set. I never knew you can infuse China and American accent together. I got a headache hearing that... Crazy woman as well.

"Can you roughen the nail edges? It's too smooth."
"Can you make the mole less perfect? The pores are too even."
"Are you able to make the hair blacker? They don't look black."
(At 3+pm) "The wig style looks different. Are you able to style it back to how it was like this morning?"
"That was a good take. Can we try 1 more shot?"
"I think the first take was good. Can we do it again? And make it more dramatic."



* my S H A T T E R E D dreams_ 12:33 AM