In the last few years, the cinematic makeup appears in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which we notice the opening and developing in the different fields such as, cinematic industry. Which that becomes a Saudi film industry that participates in local and Arabic festival even reached international.
Cinematic makeup Cinema in Saudi Arabia as present, absent, regardless of the absence of cinemas, the culture of the cinematic industry still exists in the minds. The emergence of these initiatives and the Saudi film industry has created several golden opportunities in different kinds of art that have allowed many creative people to show their talents in this multi-opportunities field.
One of these fields is the art of cinematic makeup or cinematic effects, which may most of you doesn’t know a lot about it, and what are the most prominent names that have presented and continue to present their most beautiful creations in it and reached its excellence and professionalism.
What is cinematic makeup:
We may see a horror movie that draws our attention, like the movies of the living dead or films about space creatures or strange objects of the planets and other movies that are not related to the reality but undergo to certain cinematic effects to appear in a successful picture to convince the viewer.
These effects are a kind of a lot of cinematic tricks that fall into what is known as a makeup or SFX – the abbreviation Special Effects, an art of cinematic makeup that is divided into three sections:
-Covering the face and skin imperfections, and giving freshness to appear on the screen.
-The makeup of the character, where the actor moves from Character to another as the emergence of a larger age.
-Special makeup effects, using masks and mechanical parts such as blood, often to turn a character into something imaginary like a space creature, animal, or monster.
The tools of cinematic makeup:
-Cinematic makeup used natural tools, such as flour, Vaseline in addition to industrial tools.
-Also, Silicon, Latex(rubber), Wax, Industrial blood , Gelatin, and off curs color is the important tool. These tricks and effects used in films, serials, plays, festivals and some awareness activities such as women’s violence and firefighter.
Now we will review the most seven famous Saudi figures in this field:
Sarah Alwadani:
Sarah was born in Al-hasa mastered the art of make-up cinematography. she became one of the first and most famous artists in this field, by her efforts and perseverance by working to develop herself continuously.
Her study doesn’t relate to her work, she is a graduate of King Saud University in Riyadh, specializing in psychology. But with a personal effort at first, she learned graphic art, even though her family opposition to her about the rejection of government job and prevent her of expense, but her belief in her ability to succeed led her to persuade them, encourage and standing with her.
And she achieved excellence and progress not only aspiring to what she began to learn, but she became the face of media and specializes in cinematic makeup, also organizes courses to teach the cinematic make-up.
Sarah has become an advertising face for many products. In addition, she is used as a model to beauty experts. And follow her on Instagram more than a million followers, she loves colors and finds herself in them, according to this she called a queen of colors. She is a spontaneous character who likes to focus on what she does and she hates to have a music sound while she works to enjoy the quiet.
She has been known for her encouragement of talented and creative and all the emerging projects. The last of its activities was the participation of the SW-talent competition, where she will be one of the judges.This competition for who has the talent to master the cinematic make-up of all ages and nationalities.
She participated in a number of different works at the Colors Carnival, the Art and Fashion Show, the Saudi Comedy Festival in addition to her participation in many festivals, events, and exhibitions.
Alsadeem:
She is still a student and despite her young age, her passion for this art began at the age of twelve from the fog city of London, where she began her experience when she went to a training course at the makeup artist and used the cinematic makeup, since that moment she discovered herself and love this new and strange art.
She continues to take the first steps towards this art and aspires to many achievements, she collaborated with some companies and photographers. She expects to hold the future with many opportunities for the fans of cinematic effects. In addition to her mastery of cinematic make-up, she is a talented artist.
She participated in several art exhibitions, including the “Colors and Vision of Art” carnival, the latest exhibition was “Z”, a cultural art exhibition with the participation of writer Nouveh Al Harouil. The exhibition includes various arts, including literature, poetry, sculpture and all crafts. Sadeem mentions that the channels of social media make her famous and absolutely support her.
Faris Almuaily
One of the advantages of the cinematic makeup is that it unleashes the imagination, a number of Saudi women expert in this field, but it is not only that, also many Saudi men love this art too, Fares al-Mu’aili loved to go into this unique art. He was the first Saudi young man specialized in the field of cinematic effects. In the absence of specialized educational institutions, Fares began to discover his talent by learning his own way to turn from the beginner filmmaker to a professional. And in a period of three years began in the last year full-time to practice his hobby and learning about 9 hours daily between learning from different sources and apply what he learns.
Persistence in learning and development is always the result of success and achievement of the goals, and one of his wishes, be a teacher of this art and that there are specialized institutes in the education of the art of cinematic effects containing equipment and tools . Especially that the lovers and creators of make-up cinematographers suffer from lack of availability in the Saudi market and the difficulty of getting most of the requirements for this field just on online order.
Sarah Alzamil:
Sarah is one of the first to love and learn the art of cinematic effects. From the very beginning of her career, she started to hang on to its until she decided to study outside the Kingdom at the Delimar Academy of Dramatic Makeup in London in 2012.Sarah also specialized in makeup, theater, and beauty, in addition to Hollywood’s simple makeup, which is based on facial features, skin beautification, and increased freshness.
Like her colleagues, Sarah has relied on diligence and perseverance in learning and mastering the tricks of cinematic make-up so as to raise her level to her future aspirations in participating in international films.
Nada Khouja
Neda Samir Khouja studied the art of makeup through several intensive courses in Lebanon and her experience over the past thirteen years, followed by more than fifty thousand followers on Instagram. Nada works in the media as a makeup artist performing cinematic makeup for series, films, and media make-up.
She doesn’t still on the love of cinematic effects, she developed her skills to participate in media coverage, as well as being a social activist in all women’s affairs and beauty and also offering beauty courses.
She has participated in many projects and media coverage, including the implementation of make-up work in some programs in (MBC), and the channel (OSN) of the university program, also participated in the implementation of some commercials and many other participations distinctive to her.
Eman Obaidi:
She is one of the most famous cinematic makeup artists, she has more than 116,000 followers on Instagram. Over the ten years, she has developed her talent in the art of cinematic effects and has mastered the art of cosmetic make-up.
Through her account in Instagram we can see her talent and mastery in showing horror in a wonderful way, you may be surprised and feel the contradiction when looking at the images of the make-up normal, which is done with all his skill and without exaggerating by highlighting the features of the face in a nice and beautiful.
Marwa Fadili
She started from the world of make-up at a very early age. She is one of the smallest artists in the cinema, and through much support and encouragement from her parents, friends, and school, she began to practice her hobby by learning and implementing it on her younger brothers. Marwa aspires to sharpen her talent and professional make-up film and participate in drama and movies.
Many lovers of this exciting and frightening field at the same time, which depends on his love first and then on the imagination so that he can create fictional characters, whether dramatic or cinematic and not only this but is also used in the medical fields to teach students and awareness and has several other areas.
The main advantage of arts is the different nations in the huge world know about us, It has been said that if you want to know the extent of the advance of a nation and their progress, see their art and culture . we have a lot of creative and talented people at all levels who are eagerly waiting for the opportunity to discharge their energies and serve themselves and their country.
