“If the audience didn’t believe in the tattoos, we were dead before we even began,” says director Guy Nattiv of “Skin,” a reality-based drama about white supremacist Bryon Widner, who renounced those beliefs and his body-covering markings.
So Nattiv tapped Emmy-winning makeup maestro Stephen Bettles for the job — a massive project that Bettles says required 14 face and 39 body tattoos just for actor Jamie Bell, who stars as Widner. Working on an indie budget, Bettles created 175 hand-drawn designs that often had to be reapplied daily on a cast that included Bell, 12 other principals and up to 165 additional characters.
“I got the original script and did a breakdown of 51 pages of makeup and tattoo-related notes,” says the British-born, L.A.-based Bettles. “That’s about five times the amount you’d normally see. Saying this was the most extensive job I’ve ever had — that’s putting it mildly.”
Bettles, who...
So Nattiv tapped Emmy-winning makeup maestro Stephen Bettles for the job — a massive project that Bettles says required 14 face and 39 body tattoos just for actor Jamie Bell, who stars as Widner. Working on an indie budget, Bettles created 175 hand-drawn designs that often had to be reapplied daily on a cast that included Bell, 12 other principals and up to 165 additional characters.
“I got the original script and did a breakdown of 51 pages of makeup and tattoo-related notes,” says the British-born, L.A.-based Bettles. “That’s about five times the amount you’d normally see. Saying this was the most extensive job I’ve ever had — that’s putting it mildly.”
Bettles, who...
- 7/24/2019
- by Randee Dawn
- Variety Film + TV
Composer Rupert Gregson-Williams wanted to capture “the sounds of the streets” in “The Alienist.” This TNT limited series focuses on a pioneering criminal psychologist (Daniel Brühl) who tracks down a serial killer in late-19th-century New York. And since the city at that time was a melting pot of immigrants from all over the world, the music veteran wanted to play upon “the cultural diversity at that time” in his score. Watch our exclusive video interview with Gregson-Williams above.
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Blending music from around the globe could create a messy hodgepodge, but Gregson-Williams found “some common denominators as far as instruments go in all those countries,” such as early guitars and percussion. He sampled sounds from Italian, Jewish, and Eastern European styles, but he predominately focused on Irish folk music since the Irish “are a big part...
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Blending music from around the globe could create a messy hodgepodge, but Gregson-Williams found “some common denominators as far as instruments go in all those countries,” such as early guitars and percussion. He sampled sounds from Italian, Jewish, and Eastern European styles, but he predominately focused on Irish folk music since the Irish “are a big part...
- 6/20/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
If you've always marveled at the wonders of cinema and wished you too could create compelling stories, do mark mid-October in your calendar right away. The 15th Mumbai Film Festival in association with Equinox Europe is conducting a two-day workshop on October 14 and 15, at the conference room of Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri.
On the agenda are pitching, screen writing and script development, i.e. skills to take your budding film career forward. The workshop will be conducted by the Chair of the Melbourne International Film Festival and eminent script advisor Claire Dobbin along with James Hart, producer and screen-writer having worked with some of the top studios of the world.
Dobbin, who is conducting the first day's activities has been at the heart of script writing workshops in Australia & New Zealand and has been a guest lecturer at the Abu Dhabi Film festival. As the Senior Script Executive at...
On the agenda are pitching, screen writing and script development, i.e. skills to take your budding film career forward. The workshop will be conducted by the Chair of the Melbourne International Film Festival and eminent script advisor Claire Dobbin along with James Hart, producer and screen-writer having worked with some of the top studios of the world.
Dobbin, who is conducting the first day's activities has been at the heart of script writing workshops in Australia & New Zealand and has been a guest lecturer at the Abu Dhabi Film festival. As the Senior Script Executive at...
- 10/7/2013
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
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