Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics for Stage and Screen BA Welcome Pack

Welcome to Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics for Stage and Screen BA 2023.

The Hair, Make-Up and Prosthetics for Stage and Screen BA (Hons) is specifically designed to provide you with a varied practical skills-set to prepare you for a career within the make-up and special effects sector of the ever-growing creative industries. With a placement opportunity and a focus on the etiquettes of industry environments, the course has a strong employability focus.

Alongside practical and employability skills, the programme provides historical and cultural academic contextualisation of hair, make-up and prosthetics across a range of stage and screen contexts.

Course teaching, both practical and theoretical will be supplemented with guest speakers and special events which will give you key insights into the industries which you will be working in. Overall, this helps to provide students with industry relevant opportunities within their wider university experience and environment.

Your Programme Leader

A photo of Dr I-Chun Hsiao, Senior Lecturer in Hair, Make Up and Prosthetics for Stage and Screen

I-Chun Hsiao

Lecturer in Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics for Stage and Screen
I-Chun.hsiao@northampton.ac.uk

Welcome and Induction Sessions

We would like to invite you to join members of your subject and programme team, and other students joining you on Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics for Stage and Screen BA (Hons) at the University of Northampton this year for an online welcome and induction experience in the weeks leading up to the start of term. The details of your programme specific experience are as follows:

  • Monday 11 September

    Friday 15 September

  • Monday 18 September 

    • Session: Welcome to Hair, Makeup & Prosthetics for Stage & Screen with the full programme team
    • Time: 10am-12.30pm
    • Location: Creative Hub, Room CH305

     

    • Session: Getting to Know You – Meeting Your Personal Academic Tutor
    • Time: 1.30pm-4.30pm
    • Location: Creative Hub, Room CH305/6

    Please bring note taking equipment to both the above sessions.

    Tuesday 19 September

    • Session: Studio Orientation, Kit and Locker Allocation With our Technician Team
    • Time: 10am-11.30am
    • Location: Creative Hub, Room CH305

    Label makers will be provided for you to add to your kit, however, please feel free to bring alternative methods to personalise and label your professional makeup kit.

     

    • Title: Health & Safety Induction with our Technician Team
    • Time: 1.30pm-4.30pm
    • Location: Creative Hub, Room CH305/306

    Please bring note taking equipment to this session.

    Wednesday 20 September

    • Students’ Union activities will be running across the campus. Please see the Students’ Union website. It will be updated in advance of Welcome Week with further information.

    Thursday 21 September

    • Students’ Union activities will be running across the campus. Please see the Students’ Union website. It will be updated in advance of Welcome Week with further information.

    Friday 22 September

    • Session: Social Event – Getting to Know Yours Peers
    • Time: 12pm-1.30pm
    • Location: to be confirmed

Equipment

You will be required to contribute towards a make-up kit – resulting in a total of £350. We will send you information about how to do this through our online shop before you arrive and during your first week.

 

Enhancing skills, building networks and engaging in the wider University community

​​Throughout your academic year there are a variety of extra-curricular opportunities for self-initiated networking. These provide you with an opportunity to engage in professional work practice, build your portfolio and expand your creative network.

​As a course team, we actively work alongside complimentary degree courses such as Photography, Fashion Design, Acting & Drama, Journalism, Creative Film, Nursing and Paramedics to simulate real world scenarios for our students to engage in, this is fundamental to fostering a collaborative culture.

​In addition to this, we are often contacted by local and national companies and our students have contributed to several events across the last academic year. All of the events enable students to build their technical and transferable skills and some of our involvements include BBC Northampton, Pride Northampton, Born To Perform Performing Arts Group, STEAM Northants, Change Maker Awards and the Royal & Derngate Summer shows.

​Educational trips and guest speakers are core to our teaching and learning strategy on the program as they enable students to engage in the wider makeup community and inspire their learning journey. Key trips have included Banbury Postiche and The Prosthetic Event.

​Notable guest speakers who have contributed to the curriculum are: Ve Neill (Award winning Hair and Makeup Designer) , Donald Mowat (Award winning Hair and Makeup Designer), Bridgette Ellwood (TV Makeup artist), Caroline Bell (Afro textured hair specialist), Mitch Work  (Barber and Hairdresser) and James Campbell (Avant Garde Hair).

 

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