CBMA Casualty Course Outline

Day One:

• The use of light and shade for swelling and broken noses
• Creating a ‘sick’ look
• Sweat (using Vaseline and glycerine)
• Drug addiction and alcohol abuse
• Death
• The effect of different skin tones
• Broken veins
• Use of tear sticks, blowers and consideration of safety issues
• Dirtying the face, hands and teeth to create looks from living rough on the street to working in dirty environments such as coal mines

Day Two:

• Cuts and grazes: use of various red tones
• Bruises and black eyes: use of contact lenses, gelatine eye pieces, blending and colouring.  Considerations as to the location of the bruise, the age of the victim, etc
• Acne, boils, cold sores: use of tuplast, gelatine and silicone to create 3D effects
• Concealing tattoos

Day Three:

• Skin break-outs and skin diseases: spots, pit marks, measles, chicken pox, cold sores
• Scars: post operative scars, new scars, self harming and whipping
• Use of various products and methods of application from skin applicator to supracolour, tuplast and coldium

Day Four:

• Burns: sunburn, third degree burns caused by fire and scalding water, use of red skin tones, blistering of the skin, disfigurement of facial and bodily features using tuplast and gelatine

Day Five:

• Knife wounds: slit wrists, slit throats
• Use of wax, tuplast, all types of blood consistencies