I've seen quite a few credits for such things as Prosthetic Makeup Designed by, Prosthetic Makeup Created by, Prosthetic Makeup Artist and others similar credits.


Would any of these be credited and if so, which category? Makeup or Makeup Effects?

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I've seen quite a few credits for such things as Prosthetic Makeup Designed by, Prosthetic Makeup Created by, Prosthetic Makeup Artist and others similar credits.


Would any of these be credited and if so, which category? Makeup or Makeup Effects?

They are not in the crew roles list of the rule, so they must not be contributed.

I, mostly, agree with Martin.  Where I differ is with the 'Prosthetic Make-up Artist'...I would enter them as they are responsible for making sure the prosthetics look good.  They do for the prosthetics what a regular make-up artist does for an actor.

I'm of the opinion that prosthetic make-up is nearly the definiton of make-up effects, and am noticing as I audit more horror movies that it's also quite a common term, which should probably be added to the wording of the rules as acceptable.
Make-up effects is creating an effect that something is there that isn't. Prosthetics  do the same thing!

I hope Ken will add these jobs to the chart so there is no controversy over including them in the make-up credits. Their role is, after all, as important to the horror film as a "regular" make-up person is to all films.

Martin,

I don't necessarily have a problem with your approach, but since we have a category for Make Up Artist wouldn't that include ALL M-U artists and not just the principal ones? Unless someone is identified as "supervisory" or "chief" or "principal" how do we know where to draw the line? (Unless someone is identified in the opening credits and the rest in the end credits, which doesn't happen very often for the make-up crew)  And if that is true, how could we restrict the Prosthetic M-U to just the principals?

Having said this, I can see that adding this group could open the door to a large number of different categories of M-U people, so on one hand I'm against crediting them -- and on the other hand I'm for doing so.

I think the biggest problem is that we are shoving everybody into only one credit and therefore losing any distinction between the roles.
Ideally Effects should have been given it's own category with a list of credit types like Sound. Instead everybody gets one credit, regardless of what job they actually did. 

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