Local 706 - The Artisan

20 • THE ARTISAN FALL 2021 department together on 13 projects and it has been one of the best working relationships I have ever had. We collaborate on everything between make-up and hair. Each decision is made together regarding the characters' looks, how we run the departments, and who we bring in as crew. It is vital to have a crew that is on board with us and works well together. We always begin a show with a crew meeting stating the most important thing is to have fun, as the work is one thing; but having a good time together is essential, knowing the reality of spending more time together than we will with our own families during production. We had all just completed working on Space Jam: A New Legacy, so it was an easy transition regarding the crew, once hired. I brought in Jennifer Zide Essex as my key, Akiko Matsumoto as my third, and asked Todd McIntosh and Melanie Tooker to be part of the main crew. We all loved working together on the previous show and wanted to stay as one team for as long as possible. We began filming October of 2019 in California cities Pomona and Pacoima, with 10 episodes ahead of us, with dozens of main cast, and at times, several hundred BG actors. We assembled great 706 crews with skilled and talented people such as Jamie Kelman, Jeni Novak, Patricia Messina, Erin LaBre, Kim Fiallo to name a few. Everyone was poised and ready to emerge themselves into 1953 and the terror within. We needed to come up with many looks for our lead actors; Deborah Ayorinde (Lucky Emory) and Ashley Thomas (Henry Emory) who played the parents and their two children Shahadi Wright Joseph and Melody Hurd. Their journey starts in North Carolina, a little more relaxed and happier. As tragedy strikes, we see the wear and tear in their looks as they travel to Los Angeles to begin a new chapter in their lives. Jennifer Zide Essex handled Deborah's day-to-day looks. She co-designed the stages, along with the actress as I wanted her to make this her own. Deborah, being naturally beautiful and attractive, we wanted to keep her looks, but we also wanted to show what she had been through, and she allowed Jennifer to go the distance and bring her down several notches to make her make-up believable as she begins to crack and then regain her strength toward the end of the series. I handled Ashley's looks ranging from a clean-cut manicured look to a man on the edge, to a severe casualty look at the end of the show. I accomplished this with facial hair changes, including a custom-tied beard and mustache with hand-laid overlay hair. The prosthetics for the last two episodes were produced by KNB EFX under the watchful eye of Local 706 make-up artist and KNB shop supervisor Carey Jones. Under Johnny's supervision, Nick Castellanos established Ashley's hair and then DaMarr Ward came in to followed it through the remainder of the shoot. Uplifting story about DaMarr. We had hired him to work background. Mid-day, we discovered he was not in the union, a mistake on my part, so always check with dispatch when hiring. We were very shy of barbers, so I called Randy Sayer at the 706 Jamie Kelman with Christopher Heyerdahl as The Black Hat Man Jennifer Zide with Deborah Ayorinde as Lucky Emory

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