Special Effects Course
:Diplomas
International diploma
:Target audience
Makeup artists
:Duration of the course
5.5 months
22 lessons
What will you learn in the course?
This course is one of the most fascinating specialties among the Yarin Shahaf courses. In the SFX course, you will learn unique makeup techniques for TV, fantasy and stage. A makeup artist who joins this course with experience in beauty makeup will enter a new world of makeup and discover this profession has unlimited place for imagination. The most comprehensive curriculum in Israel relating to special effects includes lessons such as basics of sketching and sculpting, face drawing, drag makeup, stage and theater makeup, sculpting and additions from different materials including wax, latex, silicone and gelatin, ageing, wounds, burns, work with hair to create beards and mustaches, making molds, various techniques of tooth sculpting, life casting, etc.
Who teaches the course?
The course is instructed and accompanied by the leading teachers, first-class makeup artists who specialize in teaching. The staff combines professionalism with warm personal approach for every student. Yarin Shahaf strictly selects the teaching staff and teaches the drag lessons in the course.
What prior knowledge is required for the course?
Specialization studies in this course are designed for makeup artists who have graduated from any makeup school, holding a professional makeup studies diploma (beauty, brides and stills photography). This is the ideal makeup course for artists wishing to specialize in a particularly fascinating area and expand their employment opportunities. Studies in this course do not require prior knowledge of painting or any other artistic background.
Do students in this course receive a kit of products?
At the beginning of the course, you will receive a kit containing makeup products and accessories required for practice in the classroom and of course for home practice too. The products in this kit complement the professional makeup course products and provide means of practicing all the special effects studied in the course.
What employment opportunities await graduates of the course?
This course provides makeup artists with specialization in extremely sought-after areas, such as movies, TV, theater, shows and others. A beauty makeup artist alone cannot provide the needs of productions that require this type of makeup. Furthermore, this type of makeup is entering everyday life. In the current age of concept weddings, makeup stands in birthdays and private productions in clubs, the borders are fading and any large or medium production provides potential employment in body and fantasy makeup. The world of imagination now belongs to everyone!
What sets Yarin Shahaf apart from other schools?
The school is not a makeup company and the curriculum includes works with all large and leading makeup companies.
Beyond the SFX course makeup curriculum, students and graduates enjoy additional service:
Unlimited practical workshops, both during and after the course, that improve technique and professional confidence, free of charge.
The school believes in voluntary work and assistance and from 2001 leads the Yarin Shahaf for the Community project in which graduates and students volunteer to work with needy populations.
What tools does the school provide to leverage a career in makeup?
- The course includes a photography day during which a professional fashion photographer documents the students' works applied to the faces of models. Picture after picture accumulate into a perfect portfolio, a mandatory condition for being part of the makeup market.
What diplomas does the school provide?
Graduates of this course are awarded an international diploma for movie, stage and theater makeup specialists.
