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Posts of makeup
Products, pinceals, palettes, hygiene, light and quick access to the artist's face. The post must remain organized for several hours without invading the general circulation.
HMC • Make-up • Hair • Cinema • Series
The HMC Multi-Post Makeup, hairstyle, artists, a real mobile workshop.
When several artists have to be ready at the same time, the problem is no longer simply having a mirror and a capture. Production has to create a real preparation chain: makeup positions, hairstyle, talent circulation, electricity, connections, storage and fast connection with the plateau. This is exactly the logic of a multi-post HMC logue.
Makeup and mobile coffers
The HMC is not a logue with A few mirrors.
On a professional stage, the HMC makeup and coatings It must allow several professions to prepare artists, manage the connections, keep the organized material and follow the rhythm of the work plan without transforming every morning a piece of the decor into an improvised hair salon.
The term HMC, commonly used in audiovisual productions, includes the functions of clothing, makeup and hairstyle. In the real organization of a plateau, these professions are yet different enough so that spaces must be thought with accuracy. Makeup works with its products, its pinceals, its palettes, its lightings and its protocols. Hairstyle uses other equipment, often electric, with its brushes, hair dryers, ferries, products and accessories. Clothing, he, works more with portants, shoes, clothes and volume.
Therefore, a multi-post HMC logging should be understood as a space specialized primarily in makeup and hair making preparation, eventually supplemented by certain functions according to the available arrangement. The exact number of usable positions should never be invented on a commercial page. It depends on the unit actually mobilized, its interior implantation and how production wants to work.
The real question is not: “How many actors do we have?”
The real question is:
How many actors should be prepared at the same time?
This data allows to properly reflect on the number of HMC positions, the calling times and the necessary capacity.
Take a simple example. A series can include twelve actors in the service sheet. However, the calls can be distributed: two artists at six hours, one at seven hours, three people at eight hours, and then several arrived in the morning. In this case, the twelve talents never ask for HMC at the same time.
A advertisement, on the contrary, can only gather four artists. But if the customer wants the four in front of the camera at nine hours, the four preparations must be done in a very short period. The total number of artists is lower, but the pressure on the HMC is much greater.
This is the phenomenon that production must anticipate. A badly-dimensional HMC logue can become a strangling gout from the beginning of the day. The actors wait. The assistants wait. The plateau can be technically ready, but the first artist is not finished. Every delay then affects the rest of the planning.
On the contrary, a well-dimensional organization allows to work parallelly. While one talent is make-up, another can be hairy. While the first person performs a last check, the next post already welcomes the next artist. The preparation becomes a fluid chain, without giving the impression of a factory.
A team can be great, but if the technicians have to constantly rise to let another professional pass, if each cable passes through circulation, if the products are struck because of lack of storage or if the artists cross in a too narrow passage, the team’s performance is mechanically reduced.
The interest of a HMC logue is therefore to create a predictable environment. Professionals arrive, install their equipment, find the drawings, organize their products and can start the day. They don't spend the first hour looking for a prolongation, moving a table, protecting a furniture or negotiating with the owner of the decor to know which room can eventually be used.
This separation also protects the place of shooting. A house, a villa, a hotel, an apartment, a castle, a restaurant, an office or a property are often chosen for their aesthetics. Transforming a beautiful room into temporary HMC means installing dozens of products, heating equipment, bags, towels, cables and a permanent circulation.
The mobile logging prevents this competition between the decor and preparation. The filmed place remains available for the camera. The HMC works in its space. The artists pass from one to another according to a scheduled circuit.
This logic is strong on outdoor shoots, in private properties or on sites where no suitable location exists. A road, a beach, a field, a campsite, a parking, an industrial site or a place can offer an excellent decor while being completely without backgrounds. The vehicle then brings the HMC function to the nearest of production.
Thinking about work posts
A number of artists. A number of preparations in parallel.
A multi-post organization does not consist of aligning chairs. Each post must allow a professional to work without blocking the one who is next to it.
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Posts of hair
Hairdressers, hair dryers, ferries, accessories and products. The hairdresser must be able to use its equipment without disturbing makeup or saturating the electricity supply.
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Post of connection
A preparation does not stop at the first plateau departure. The artists return for rebounds, checks and adjustments throughout the day.
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Zone of circulation
The best post is nothing if no one can pass. entrance, exit, artists, assistants and technicians must be able to circulate without dismantling the neighboring post.
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Implants
Access is part of logistics.
The HMC Planning
Number of posts is calculated With a clock.
How to build a multi-post HMC logue?
The dimensioning of a HMC should start with planning, not the total number of names on the service sheet. This is probably the most important point in the entire organization.
Let’s take a production with eight artists. At first glance, we might think that we need to provide a significant capacity. But if the calls are spaced, the same team can prepare several people successively on the same positions.
On the contrary, a three-talent filming can be very demanding if the three have to start their preparations at the same time and if each preparation lasts a long time.
Start with the “Platto Loan” time
A good method consists of the time at which the artist must be fully ready. Suppose that a comedian must be on the plateau at eight hours. It is necessary to remove the time of journey between the HMC and the decor. Then the time of clothing. Then the time planned for hairstyle. Then the time of makeup.
This rise allows to determine the real time of calling and the time when the HMC post should be available. Then the same calculation is made for all the artists. It is at that moment that collisions appear.
If three preparations are between six and seven hours thirty, the production must have teams and positions capable of absorbing this pic.
The post is not just a chair.
To make a job truly usable, the technician must be able to work around the artist. There is room for his products, for his tools and for professional gestures.
Adding a fourth chair to a room where three seats already occupy the whole space does not create a fourth place. This creates an additional chair in a already saturated circulation.
The concept of multi-posts should therefore always be linked to real ergonomy. Every professional must be able to stay in place, work and maintain his organization without moving the neighbor's affairs.
Makeup and hairstyle in parallel
Depending on the team’s habits, makeup and hairstyle can be bound or partially function parallel. This organization has a direct effect on the capacity of the lounge.
If an artist successively takes a makeup post and then a hairstyle post, production can create a flow. While the first passes in hairstyle, the second begins his makeup. When the circuit is well prepared, several talents progress simultaneously.
Do not forget the backing of the platoes.
A planning that only looks at the morning preparation is incomplete. As soon as the first drawings begin, artists can return for connections. The heat, cold, wind, sweating, costume changes, physical scenes or simply continuity may require retouchings.
These returns temporarily occupy positions while other artists are still in initial preparation. HMC must therefore retain a certain capacity to absorb the unpredictable.
Figures and Silhouettes
Some productions also include silhouettes or figurants that require a preparation. The treatment may be faster than that of a main role, but the volume may be much greater.
A dozen minutes of preparations can create a strong pressure if all have to be completed in the same thread. It may then be necessary to separate the circuits or to provide a specific organization.
The head of office must be able to monitor
A well-organized logging should not only allow every technician to work. It must also allow a general vision. Who is finished? Who is waiting? Who artists must leave in five minutes? Who comes back for a connection?
The more the number of posts increases, the more this coordination becomes important. Therefore, the multi-post is both a matter of information circulation and furniture.
The Circuit of an Artist
From arrival to the plateau without losing time.
Calling
The artist arrives according to the time calculated from his plateau passage.
makeup
Installation on the post, preparation, continuity and validation of the result.
Coveted
The talent passes to the next post without blocking the makeup of the next artist.
Clothing
The costumes take the relay in their own area if the project requires it.
Plateau
The artist joins the camera and then returns to HMC for his connections.
The dish does not always have HMC.
A bastide can be beautiful in front of the camera. Not necessarily ideal for six hours of makeup.
A property, a villa, a field, a street, a beach, a road or a natural land can be chosen for their image without having real backgrounds. The mobile HMC logue allows to preserve the filmed place while installing the preparation nearby.
Electricity and equipment
Several posts mean multiple consumption.
Preparing the power supply of a HMC logue
A makeup-coating team works with equipment that can demand electricity significantly, especially when several devices work simultaneously.
Production should therefore not consider electricity as a problem to be solved after parking. It must be part of the vehicle preparation and its location.
The hairstyles
Hairdressing equipment can include hair dryers, ferries and other devices according to the work required. One device does not pose the same question as several postures working together.
The power needed should therefore be determined according to the configuration actually used. production should avoid reasoning with an approximate estimate of the type "a take will be enough".
Climate or Heating
The logging itself can also have the needs of thermal comfort. In summer, a HMC can receive several artists, several technicians and devices that produce heat. Without properly tempered environment, working conditions deteriorate quickly.
In winter, heating is equally important. An artist who comes from an outdoor decor must be able to be prepared in a stable environment. The teams sometimes work more than ten hours in the same unit. Comfort is therefore an element of operation, not just an aesthetic advantage.
Distance to the source
Even when a proper power is available on the site, its distance from the logge should be taken into account. A very long cable can complicate the installation. It must be positioned and properly protected.
It should not pass without protection the main circulation of artists or technicians. The location of the vehicle should therefore be chosen by looking at both the plateau, the artists' journey and the technical needs.
Avoid improvisations at 6 a.m.
HMC calls are often part of the first activities of the day. It is therefore punishable to discover at the time when make-up workers install their positions that the planned food is not exploitable.
The vehicle should be ideally installed and operational before the first calls. The day should start with ready-made positions, not with a search for a technical solution.
Range and work surfaces
The multi-post also increases the amount of material present in the lounge. Each professional comes with his own products, pinceals, brushes, tools, consumables and accessories.
If no storage logic is observed, the surfaces fill very quickly. A product temporarily placed on the neighboring post becomes the beginning of a disorganisation that expands over the day.
A post must be assigned.
When possible, it is useful that each professional keeps his position and its storage logic. Change of place between each artist obliges to move the material and increases the risk of forgetting or mixing products.
The position stability is appreciable on a series or production that remains several days. The team can then create a real work organization.
Hygiene and cleaning
Makeup is also a profession where organization and hygiene are important. The post should allow to distinguish the material used, the consumables and the areas that must remain clean.
The more the volume of artists is important, the easier this organization should be to maintain. A lounge saturated with material and people naturally makes this work harder.
Where is the Multi-Posting useful?
Cinema, series, advertising and fashion. Four very different rhythms.
The same HMC logue can be used in very different ways depending on the nature of production.
A number of roles on a large amplitude
A long film can start its preparations very early and keep a HMC activity throughout the day. The first actors go to the plateau while the next roles arrive. Connections are performed. Costumes change. New artists are called. A multi-post HMC then allows to maintain several operations in parallel without interrupting the main stream.
Repeat creates efficiency
On a series, teams can work several weeks with the same actors. The stability of the HMC logue then becomes a considerable advantage. Each technician returns to his job. Products are organized according to the roles. Preparation times are better known. The assistants know how much time to predict before each placement. The logue gradually becomes a real work base.
Little talent, but all at the same time.
Advertising is the perfect example of a production where the total number of people can be misleading. Four talents can require a very effective HMC if the four must be ready in the same thread. Customer, agency and production wait for validations. Changes in looks can be many. Multi-posts allows to reduce the time between two configurations and keep the decor dedicated to viewing.
The connection becomes a transformation.
In a shooting, the HMC does not just maintain continuity. It can completely transform the look between two series. A hairstyle can evolve. Makeup can change. The clothes are replaced. The photographer sometimes wants to link the images with very little dead time. Several posts allow to prepare a model while another is still in front of the target.
Many Universes in a single day
A clip can multiply transformations. The main artist changes hairstyle, makeup, clothing and sometimes visual character several times. Dancers or guests can add. The HMC logue becomes a central workshop where all these universes are prepared while the plateau builds the next decor.
Many people in a short time
A sequence with multiple figurants may require lighter but numerous preparations. The difficulty then comes from the flow. Each person must be treated, controlled and then sent to the next circuit. Production must distinguish the needs of the main roles from those of the figuration to avoid saturating the same positions.
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A beautiful interior is not useful. If the truck does not arrive.
Preparing access to a mobile HMC logue
The PROD 19 black truck that is seen on this page reminds us of a essential reality: a mobile logue remains a vehicle with a gabarit, a length and maneuver needs.
A production should therefore never wait the morning of the installation to discover the last kilometre of access.
GPS address is not enough.
The GPS can perfectly drive to a property without indicating that a portal is too narrow, a turn is very narrow or a road has low branches.
It can lead to a street where the location seems available but where the necessary maneuver is impossible. It can also indicate the center of a field while the technical entrance is located at another address.
This is why the photos and videos of the final trip are useful.
Photographing the entrance
A good series of photos can start before the portal. Show the street in both directions. Show the width of the entrance. Photograph the portal completely open. Show the first maneuver zone.
Then photograph the curves and the final parking area. This information allows you to understand the field much faster.
The stairs and entrance must be free.
The side photo of the PROD 19 truck shows very clearly the access zone of the vehicle. This area cannot be attached to a wall, a hole or another truck if users then have to enter and out all day.
It is necessary to keep a real space before the entrance. In a HMC, this passage can be very common. Comedians, make-up, hairdresser, assistants and managers can enter successively for several hours.
Positioning the entrance on the right side
The truck orientation should ideally allow the entrance to go to the back-stage zone and not to the main traffic.
If each artist has to cross a path where technical vehicles circulate to reach the HMC, the implantation is not optimal.
If the entrance opens to a pedestrian area connected with comedian lounges and costumes, the traffic becomes much more natural.
The HMC is close to the actors.
A makeup-coat team works with the artists all day. Therefore it is logical to bring the HMC closer to the acting lounges when the field allows it.
This prevents an artist from passing through the entire parking area for each connection. The base can form a small artistic area: lounges, HMC, costumes and eventually VIP.
Not necessarily against the camera.
HMC is a space where people talk, where doors open, where devices work and where people circulate.
Production therefore must find the right compromise between the proximity and tranquility of the plateau. A area located a little in retreat can be much more functional if it remains easily accessible by foot.
Preview the departure
A HMC logge may have to stay until the end of the filming, as connections may be needed until the last take. It may also, in some work plans, have to join another decor.
If a departure is planned before the rest of the technique, the truck must not be parked in such a way that depends on the movement of ten other vehicles.
The installation order should therefore take into account the likely starting order.
Heat and cold – long days
The HMC is working When everyone is out.
HMC during the heat
Summer can make the makeup and hairstyle conditions much more demanding. The lounge brings together several people, lighting, devices and a permanent activity. Therefore, the interior temperature must be controlled according to the equipment of the unit used.
A too hot environment can be uncomfortable for technicians and artists. It can also complicate the preparation of a comedian who then has to go on an outdoor decor under the sun.
Connections increase with heat
Swelling, movements and physical scenes can generate more retouches. The artist returns to the HMC more often. The number of passages in the lounge increases.
A implantation near the plateau then becomes even more interesting. It is not necessary to transform each two-minute connection into a 10-minute move.
HMC in winter
A artist can come from the outside with a skin and hairstyle affected by weather conditions. The lounge offers a more stable environment for preparation and attachments.
HMC teams sometimes spend most of their day in the logging room. thermal comfort is a full-time working condition.
Wind and Outdoor Screenshots
On an outdoor shooting, an artist can get out of the lounge perfectly prepared and need a connection a few minutes later.
The mobile HMC allows to keep a protected space near the decor. The team can work in more constant conditions than on a table installed under an open tent.
Night Tour
HMC often starts before the night and ends after the last take. The actual amplitude should therefore be calculated from the first call to the last connection.
An announced recording from twenty hours to two hours in the morning may require the logging at sixteen or seventeen hours depending on preparations.
On the contrary, the HMC team may still need the vehicle after the last take, time to manage the artists and to store the equipment.
Production for several weeks
On a series or long-touch, the HMC logue becomes a real daily workplace. The small organizational faults then take much more importance.
A slightly narrow circulation, a bad storage or a too long journey to the actors can be tolerable for a day. Repeated for thirty days, they become a real loss of efficiency.
Improving the implantation after the first days
After a few days, the team knows where artists are waiting, what moments of saturation are, which door is most used and at what time the connections accumulate.
When the site allows, small settings of implantation can then improve the operation for the entire sequence of the filming.
A professional HMC must be thought as a workshop
Four points to lock Before the artists arrived.
Electricity
Evaluate the configuration, the devices used simultaneously, air conditioning or heating and the available source.
Simultaneity
Not just count the artists. count those who must be prepared at the same time.
circulation
Entrance, exit, passing between the positions, connections and journey to the plateau.
Planning
Start with the “plate loan” time and go back to the call of each artist.
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FAQ HMC Multi-Posts
Before the first pinch, Let’s prepare the plateau.
What is a HMC multi-post logue?
A multi-post HMC logging is a mobile unit designed to organize several makeup and hair making preparations in the same work space. The exact number of posts depends on the configuration of the vehicle available.
How many HMC positions are required for a recording?
The most important criterion is the number of people to be prepared simultaneously and the average duration of each preparation.
Is a HMC logue different from a comedy logue?
A comedy logue is above all a space of waiting, rest and confidentiality. A HMC logue is a work space for makeup and hairstyle teams.
Can we make up and makeup in the same room?
Depending on the available configuration and the number of professionals, both functions can be organized in the same unit. However, functional positions and proper circulation must be preserved.
Can we also wear clothes in a HMC logue?
A momentum preparation can be possible according to the arrangement. But a major costume department with several wearers, clothes, shoes and accessories usually gains to have its own space.
Why do you want to have a number of jobs rather than one?
This can become essential when the “plate loan” hours are close or when a advertising calls several talents at the same time.
Can I use a HMC logue for a TV series?
A series can benefit from a stable HMC as the same teams and actors find the same organization for several days or weeks.
Is a HMC logue useful for a photo shooting?
Fashion, advertising or brand shootings may require many makeup and hairstyles transformations during the day.
Can the logue be used for a musical clip?
Yes. A clip can multiply looks, artists, dancers and changes. The HMC allows you to centralize the preparation in a space that remains out of the decor.
Should we have to check the electricity before arrival?
The needs must be studied according to the vehicle configuration, air conditioning or heating and the devices used simultaneously by the teams.
Can we connect several hair dryers at the same time?
This question must be validated based on the available electricity installation, the vehicle and the total consumption.
Is air conditioning important in a HMC logue?
It can become very important during hot seasons, especially when several people and several equipment work in the same space.
How do you position HMC compared to the acting logos?
When the field allows, it is interesting to create an artistic area that brings together HMC, comedian logos and costumes with short and clearly identified trails.
Should the HMC be attached to the plateau?
It must be close enough to facilitate the connections, but its location should not disturb the camera axes, technical traffic or silence needs.
How do I know if the truck can enter the site?
You need to check the width, height, curves, port, curve, obstacles, field and maneuver area. Photos or a video of the last kilometre are useful.
Should we leave the place before the entrance of the truck?
Access must remain open to allow artists and technicians to enter and out without danger or trouble.
Can a HMC logue stay several days on the site?
A prolonged installation can be studied if parking, connections, security and site conditions allow it.
Can I move the HMC logue to another decor?
Yes when the move is planned in the work plan. It is necessary to include the removal, the journey, the new maneuver and the re-functioning.
Can I use the HMC logue on a night shooting?
So, the actual amplitude must be taken into account from the first call to the last connection, as well as the travel and food.
How to prepare a HMC Debit Application?
Enter dates, city, address, schedules, number of artists, the number of simultaneous preparations, makeup-coating needs and if possible access photos.
Why to specify the call hours?
Because two productions with the same number of artists may require very different capabilities if the preparations are distributed or, on the contrary, all concentrated at the same time.
Does PROD 19 only enter in Provence?
Applications can be considered according to dates, destination, duration and logistical feasibility.
More artists.
A HMC that keeps the rhythm.
Cinema, TV series, advertising, shooting, clip or major production: send us the call schedules, the number of artists, the place and makeup-coating needs. We will study the most consistent configuration with your work plan.
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