Thanks to 'Korean Wave' since the 21^(st), Korea film industry has been very successful, however, the portion of SF movie is relatively weak.
But the good news is that Korea has put its name on the list of 'technology leading countries' and the world ...
Thanks to 'Korean Wave' since the 21^(st), Korea film industry has been very successful, however, the portion of SF movie is relatively weak.
But the good news is that Korea has put its name on the list of 'technology leading countries' and the world started to look at Korea for its state-of-the art technology such as computer graphic, which is a potential sign for Korean film industry.
The state-of-the art computer technology is one of the most important factors to complete a SF movie as it highly impacts on 'special effects" and 'special make-up", which can invite more and more movie investors for future screen industry.
Considering the facts, the importance of the 'special make-up' is ever higher than ever. In other words, filmmakers are struggling into entertaining audiencevisually by very specific works of special make-up.
Special make-up is a creative process that is needed to make a good movie and a process that can be done by analyzing characters and meeting audience's longings.
Also, this process can be classified into sections. 1. Information of state-of-the art materials and technology. 2. Involvement of all the decision making process.
Regardless of all the described importance of special make-up above, it has been considered to be some kind of make-up artists that just offer technique. But now, 'special make-up' contributes to SF movie industry in a creative way.
Therefore this study aims at discuss a general concept of special make-up & build make-up process as a systematic design process. As an example of 'converting special make-up process to a design process', an outstanding SF movie in Korea, 'Natural City' was selected as a model,
Especially the make-up design in the movie had high reputation for representing characteristics& creating our heartstrings in our way, other than going after Hollywood's.
Followings are the summary of 'Special make-up design process'.
First, Special make-up design plays a creative role by creating characters visually, which is based on very specific analysis and close communication between movie directors and actors.
Second, relationship is extremely important for 'Special make-up design process'. Firstly, character of actor should be managed by movie director & production design.
Also discussion & process of special make-up design should be made at the stage of pre-production.
Secondly, after analyzing characteristics, ways to broaden imagination shall be planned. To accomplish that, materials for special make-up and technology shall be analyzed, at the same time, it should go along with production expenses & ways to meet reasonable techniques.
Third, by applying 'special make-up design process' with the movie 'Natural City', identify issues that blocks Korea make-up design development. The followings were identified as issues as special make-up process in 'Natural City'. First, it was hard to find connections between actors' feeling or emotions. Second, 'special make-up design'had to be given up due to production expense.
In sum, there was found the lack of specialists that can control huge SF movies in Korea's movie industry. Therefore, it is expected that this study can be a mild stone for systematiceducation in the future and gives pride to the special make-up designers. It will eventually provide confidence to designers & satisfactory to actors, directors as well as audiences.