Bachelor, Cinema Makeup Artist & Special Effects

This training allows students to acquire cinema and TV makeup techniques. They are also trained in special effects makeup techniques and the use of different materials.

To transform people with brushstrokes, to know how to make a prosthesis and place it, to sublimate characters. Skilful techniques require particular and exhaustive mastery.

The Bachelor in Cinema & Special Effects Makeup Artist allows students to acquire these multiple techniques and this unique know-how.

In three years, students acquire the creativity, maturity, methods, and knowledge necessary to enter the film industry.

During the first year of training, students benefit from theoretical and practical instruction. However, in the second year, the training is pushed towards the world of cinema makeup & special effects. The young makeup artists study, among other things, set behaviour, script reading, post-script makeup, cinema, and digital lighting. In the third year, accompanied by their teachers - makeup professionals, students also learn to place prostheses, take impressions and apply them. This last year allows creativity to be enriched and techniques to be mastered.

ITM Paris also teaches English, the language necessary for entering a profession in the entertainment, film, and television industry.

For more than 30 years, ITM Paris has been the benchmark makeup school for cinema, audiovisual, fashion, entertainment, advertising, and beauty professionals.

The teaching is multidisciplinary. It integrates areas related to makeup such as hairdressing, styling, hairpieces, etc. This allows students to understand the professions with which they will be required to collaborate, understand the constraints and requirements, and consider in their own work.

Teaching English, especially the makeup industry's vocabulary, facilitates students' integration into multicultural teams during international film productions or fashion shows.

Script reading and analysis seminars allow students to develop their ability to anticipate and prepare for a shoot.

Our goal is to pass on our precious makeup experience. This is why specialized makeup lessons are given by speakers whose main activity is to practice a professional makeup artist's profession.

More than thirty professional speakers intervene each year. Along with the techniques, they help people discover and practice, they testify to the qualities necessary to do this job well.

The plurality of points of view and methods guarantees the acquisition of students' great adaptability to the diversity of production teams. They are and are the latest news in the profession. The ITM Paris team regularly keeps abreast of innovations, particularly technological ones, affecting the professional makeup sector and adapts its teaching accordingly.