[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC. If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need for your classes].
Welcome Letter in Screen Reader Format
Welcome to Drama 112 Introduction to Stage Makeup!
Salutations!
I am your teacher Tara Maginnis. I am also normally the Costume Designer for the faculty directed plays we usually do at DVC Links to an external site.each year, as well as the teacher of DR113 Beginning Costume Design each Spring. You can see all the fun stuff I get up to at DVC as well as the weird research projects I do at home at my personal website https://TaraMaginnis.comLinks to an external site.
If you need extra help or information at any point in the semester you can contact me at:
- Cell Phone/Text: XXX-XXX-XXXX (11am-11pm except while driving or during meetings where I will call/text back when I’m able.)
- email: Email@email.edu (or from your Canvas inbox)
- Email response time 24 hrs on weekdays, 48 hrs on weekends, the exception to this is tech weeks of our shows when normally I am at DVC for absurdly long hours and things may go slower than usual weekdays. (I too need to sleep occasionally).
Welcome!
I am pleased to welcome you to Drama 112 Introduction to Stage Makeup This class is not anything like a regular cosmetic makeup class where you primarily learn how to “fix” things wrong with people’s faces. While we have one lesson on “corrective” makeup (because it is in the catalog, so we have to), I personally believe that “THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR FACE!” In my class you will instead learn how to make yourself look older, angrier, happy & sad, how to look like a person of another gender, how to look like an animal, a gothic horror, a person with a funky nose, or scraggly beard, a crime victim, a kabuki actor, a drag diva, and ultimately a mythical creature. We are not here to learn to “fix” your face, we are here to play with your face so we can help you, (or the people you make up) become a character.
Dates
Our course will meet face to face in the bowels of the PAC on Mondays and Wednesdays starting August 22 and ending December 7 . To get there, find the PAC and follow the brightly colored signs I will post on the first day to find the splendid “Costume Dungeon” level of the building where PA-3 is located. However, besides meeting face to face you may also access the class Canvas page from the time DVC chooses to let the class come online on and until your DVC Insite/Canvas login credential dies. Since Covid ran amok, most everything for doing the class remotely is also there, so if you have to stay home with quarantine( or a hangover), you can catch up online! We are “High-Flex” so you can Face to Face or do stuff asynchronously as life demands.
This is not an online course, but you may use the online interface Canvas on your hours, at your pace if life interferes. You should also check out the Canvas site because it has a wealth of good extra info like videos for different ages, genders and skin tones, and more detailed information than can be put in an 18-page syllabus, and (lots of fun silly animations and links.)
Individual Needs
Information from the DVC Website:
Students who require alternative formats for course materials or adaptive equipment because of a specific disability can request them through the Disability Support Services https://www.dvc.edu/student-services/disability-support-services/ office.
If you are struggling with basic needs such as food, housing, medical https://www.dvc.edu/basic-needs/health.html or mental health services https://www.dvc.edu/enrollment/counseling/wellness.html, money for textbooks, etc, check out DVC’s Basic Needs Page https://www.dvc.edu/basic-needs/index.htmlLinks to an external site. to access our many resources for your well-being ranging from telehealth services https://www.dvc.edu/basic-needs/timelymd.htmlLinks to an external site., food pantry https://www.dvc.edu/basic-needs/food.htmlLinks to an external site. and money for textbooks and school supplies https://www.dvc.edu/basic-needs/covid-19-emergency-grant.html (like a makeup kit)!
DVC also recognizes that students may have technology needs. Students in need of assistance can check out assorted tech items by going to the Technology Loan Page https://www.dvc.edu/online-education/technology-loans.htmlLinks to an external site. to fill out a form for requesting the equipment. If you have questions, please contact Kristina Gomez.
Course Expectations
Show up, do your makeup research, renderings and makeup and have me take your photos. If you do stuff at home, take your own photos. In either case post your photos online so we have a record of them and I can give you grade points.
Required Course Materials
- A Full-size deluxe crème (oil-based) student theatrical make-up kit [needed by Week 3, and available at the DVC bookstore or online]
- Examples:
- https://stagemakeuponline.com/collections/ben-nye/products/ben-nye-theatrical-creme-makeup-kit?variant=32011359060099Links to an external site.
- https://www.mehron.com/creamblend-all-pro-makeup-kit/Links to an external site. (great kits for dark skin tones)
- https://www.graftobian.com/product/student-theatrical-makeup-kit-deluxe/Links to an external site. (sold at DVC Bookstore)
- https://us.kryolan.com/product/supracolor-kitLinks to an external site.
- A multicolored face paint palette with bright colors is highly desirable, but not required if you do all your makeup projects at DVC (where we have loaner face paints).
- 4 or more flat nylon/takelon angled or straight “shader” brushes about ¼-½” wide [needed by Week 4]
- Examples:
- 2 or more packages of makeup remover towelettes [needed by Week 3]*
- A jar of cold cream [needed by Week 3]*
- Wash cloth or ripped up towel piece [needed by Week 3]*
- A bar of soap [needed by Week 3]*
- *Any of these you don’t already own can be had for $1 at any 99c Only store.
- Mirror
- Textbook: Links to an external site. A Guide for Makeup by Robin and Stuart Carlson, 1982 ( https://archive.org/details/guideformakeup00cars With a free PDF) Why, you may wonder, do I have this kind of simple PDF text? Because I must assign a text, yet there is no really good general theatrical makeup textbook available that does not have 90% of the content geared to white people. Ditto for crummy textbooks. I can’t reasonably be telling you to spend $40-80 on a textbook that may be 90% useless for many of you, so I’m assigning a free one, which does have some good basic info, even if it too is geared to white people. Please when you go off and become a great makeup artist, WRITE A BOOK that is properly inclusive. (I’m just a costume designer, or I’d have done it already.)
- If you wonder why there is very little information for people of color in stage makeup books, it has to do with legacy systemic racism in theatre. During the era when stage makeup books began to be written (in the late 19th Century) almost all stage roles in Western theatre were performed by white actors. Much of the early history of Western stage makeup books is all about how to makeup white people as people of other races. If this historical topic interests you, you can see scans of many of these early makeup books, whose influence is still felt in the present day on my site at http://taramaginnis.com/theatrical-makeup-history/Links to an external site. Be warned, there are a lot of disturbing images in these books!
- Examples: