Production Management
Production Management Essay.
I am writing this essay to summarise how the hair and makeup industry has been influenced by the film industry. I will begin by exploring the film makeup artist ‘Max Factor’ as I feel that he made a significant contribution to the makeup industry since its beginning. I will then go on to evaluate the makeup industry within film by discussing my favourite movie ‘The Wizard of Oz’. I will look at the director and his style of direction in film, and also discuss in detail my findings of the hair and makeup contributions.
Max Factor is the father of modern makeup (see fig 1). He was one of ten children, born Maksymilian Faktorowicz in Poland in the 1870s. Having been one of so many children his parents could not afford to give him a formal education, which meant he had to go out and work from a very young age. At the age of eight Factor was placed in an apprenticeship to a pharmacist which is where he gained his first knowledge and fascination in cosmetics. A year later he went on to apprentice for a wigmaker and cosmetician, gaining experience that later landed him a role for top hairstylist and makeup creator, ‘Antons of Berlin’. When he was fourteen, he moved to Moscow where he began to work as a wigmaker and cosmetician to the Imperial Russian Grand Opera, and later, he went on to perform his mandatory service in the Russian Army for four years until the age of twenty two.
Upon leaving the Russian Army, Max Factor opened his own store in a suburb of Moscow selling handmade rouges, creams, fragrances and wigs. A travelling theatrical troupe bought and wore Factor's make-up while performing for Russian nobility, and a new door to fame and fortune opened wide for him. The Russian nobility appointed Factor the official cosmetic expert for the royal family and the Imperial Russian Grand Opera, an honour that had strict control over his life. This led him to his marriage to ‘Esther Rosa’, and father three children in secret.
I am writing this essay to summarise how the hair and makeup industry has been influenced by the film industry. I will begin by exploring the film makeup artist ‘Max Factor’ as I feel that he made a significant contribution to the makeup industry since its beginning. I will then go on to evaluate the makeup industry within film by discussing my favourite movie ‘The Wizard of Oz’. I will look at the director and his style of direction in film, and also discuss in detail my findings of the hair and makeup contributions.
Max Factor is the father of modern makeup (see fig 1). He was one of ten children, born Maksymilian Faktorowicz in Poland in the 1870s. Having been one of so many children his parents could not afford to give him a formal education, which meant he had to go out and work from a very young age. At the age of eight Factor was placed in an apprenticeship to a pharmacist which is where he gained his first knowledge and fascination in cosmetics. A year later he went on to apprentice for a wigmaker and cosmetician, gaining experience that later landed him a role for top hairstylist and makeup creator, ‘Antons of Berlin’. When he was fourteen, he moved to Moscow where he began to work as a wigmaker and cosmetician to the Imperial Russian Grand Opera, and later, he went on to perform his mandatory service in the Russian Army for four years until the age of twenty two.
Upon leaving the Russian Army, Max Factor opened his own store in a suburb of Moscow selling handmade rouges, creams, fragrances and wigs. A travelling theatrical troupe bought and wore Factor's make-up while performing for Russian nobility, and a new door to fame and fortune opened wide for him. The Russian nobility appointed Factor the official cosmetic expert for the royal family and the Imperial Russian Grand Opera, an honour that had strict control over his life. This led him to his marriage to ‘Esther Rosa’, and father three children in secret.