Dividing roles in the make-up team.

After our various meetings with Charlie it became apparent that different roles within the project would need to be divided up between myself and Paige in order for us to focus our full attention on certain aspects and to avoid spreading our time too thinly.

We had already divided up the key cast members to each take three characters:
Paige:
- Stanis (Matt Jopling)
- Reigna (Walter Mirkss)
- Halbarad (Jack Boswell)
Myself:
- Roran (Neal Williams)
- Bill (Liam Atton)
- Cadoc (Will Hobby)

Although we had agreed to work on the character of the Hunter Orc (John McDonald) together, we decided to divide this role up further to prevent us both making designs and prototypes when only one would eventually be used. Instead we arranged that I would design and create the facial prosthetics and wig and Paige would take on the task of working on the chest, back, hands and feet. We would also each both take 2-3 Orcs who would not be featured as heavily, however, we hoped that we would be able to get some second year students on board to help with the sculpting of these characters.

As well as the designing and making processes there were also a lot of job roles to be undertaken as a make-up designer and supervisor.

Time scheduling: Myself
- Organising meetings, planning and scheduling making of products, setting deadlines, organising call sheets for shooting dates with producer.
Kit and Budget: Paige
- Ordering products, controlling budgets, storing templates and measurements for actors.
Health and Safety: Both
- Patch testing, health and safety considerations on set; cleaning of equipment and brushes; creating a safe working environment, etc.
Continuity: Both
- Taking photos of all test make-up, creating cohesive and detailed final designs, informing on set assistants of roles in continuity.
Beard maintenance: Paige
- Ensuring that beards are thoroughly cleaned at the end of each filming day, correctly stored and labelled, etc.
Communicating with assistants and makeup team: Myself
Communicating with actors: Paige

Following this discussion a message was sent out to six first year students asking them provisionally if they would be interested in coming on board for the project. Having this many assistants will enable us to have a large enough team to tackle all of the knotting, sculpting and moulding pre-production and for them to rotate roles over the dates of shooting.