Welcome to the Christine Blundell Make-up Academy
The CHRISTINE BLUNDELL MAKE-UP ACADEMY is pleased to announce a special series of "Tea Time" events for students and selected guests at the academy in Camden Town.
Over the coming months, the academy will invite top professionals- directors, producers, Director's of Photography, production designers, assistant directors, and more - to visit the academy to talk to students about their work and, in particular, how it relates to the craft make-up within the overall structure of film making.
To have such people come to the Academy gives our students the opportunity to gain fist hand insight from our most seasoned professionals on the different aspects of a movie production.
Our second guest is Dick Pope, B.S.C
Dick Pope, BSC became interested in photography as a young boy, when his father gave him a box brownie camera and he began making portraits of his family and neighbors in Kent, England. A few years later, an uncle suggested a career as a cameraman.
Pope began as a trainee at the Pathé Film Laboratory in London and then started crewing on movies before moving across to 16mm factual documentaries, first working as an assistant and then cameraman, for many companies including the BBC.
He traveled the world, often to remote and inaccessible places including war zones, and also specialized in films about the planet’s threatened and disappearing indigenous tribes. Eventually he moved into drama via these documentaries and many music promos/concerts.
In 1990 he was asked by director Mike Leigh to photograph Life is Sweet, beginning a collaboration that has produced films including Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake. Pope has twice won the top prize, the Golden Frog, at Camerimage, The International Festival of the Art of Cinematography, for Vera Drake and Secrets & Lies, and in 2006 was honored with the Silver Frog at the same festival for The Illusionist. In the same year he photographed Man of the Year for director Barry Levinson and Honeydripper for director John Sayles. He has just wrapped on his eighth film with Mike Leigh. In 2007 Dick Pope earned both an Oscar and American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Award nomination for The Illusionist. His other cinema credits include: The Reflecting Skin, The Way of the Gun, Swept from the Sea, 13 Conversations About One Thing and Nicholas Nickleby.
Like other professionals, Dick is staunch enthusiast of this new school created by Oscar and Bafta winning make-up and hair designer CHRISTINE BLUNDELL and the work she is doing to enhance the crafts and creative skills of our industry.
As well as leading the academy, Christine is consistently active within the industry, currently working on Richard Curtis' "the boat that rocks", and recently on "Happy Go Lucky" and "Casino Royale".
All who teach at teacher at the academy are active within the profession. The academy approach is unique in attempting to change teaching methods and techniques in make-up design and in advising and assisting graduates after the completion of their course.
We are pleased, as ever to invite 5 GUESTS from outside the academy who are considering a career in make-up design to attend this special Dick Pope, afternoon tea.
To participate, please e-mail us stating your interests and reasons for wishing to attend. From your entries we will select five people and welcome you at the academy as our guests.
