Library Search: Make-up: Specialist Resources

Specialist Resources

The Library can provide you with access to a wide range of textual and audiovisual resources, useful for the creative process and professional development.

Instructional Resources

LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
LinkedIn Learning offers training videos that cover a wide range of software, business and creative skills, from 3D animation to web development. Content is added on a weekly basis so that the videos covering the latest version of the software are available. You can choose to watch short videos to provide a quick solution or follow an entire course. There are currently over 1,500 courses and over 85,000 individual tutorials. Tutorials are presented by top professionals with an ability to share their knowledge and industry experience.
Hairdressing Training This link opens in a new window
Helping to develop skills, Hairdressing Training provides exemplary step-by-step guidance videos from JISC, relating to hairdressing styles and techniques. Click on the comment section to discover all the guides.

Neill Gorton DVDs
A useful range of resources for prosthetics and character creation.

Stan Winston School of Character Arts This link opens in a new window
An online collection for learning the art & technology of character creation from award-winning industry professionals. These tutorials will teach you how to create compelling characters using a vast range of skills and techniques, from big budget cinematic approaches to DIY methods.

Contact library@aub.ac.uk from your AUB email account for the username and password.

Featured DVD & Blu Ray Resources

MARK ALFREY'S PROSTHETIC MAKE-UP FOR BEGINNERS.

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Hair Power: Me and My Afro
This taboo-busting documentary tells the story of how hair shapes Black experiences in modern Britain. Academic and writer Emma Dabiri leads the conversation, exploring how afro-textured hair has often been hidden, disguised, plagiarised and stigmatised.
Available on Box of Broadcasts - login using your AUB email address and password.

Performers, Productions & Practitioners

The Library provides access to many recorded performances, interviews with practitioners, and masterclasses.

BAFTA Guru
BAFTA Guru includes interviews with directors and film practitioners, and lectures and masterclasses from industry professionals.

Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Digital Theatre Plus provides documentaries and interviews to give a valuable insight into the play making process. Off-campus access is available. Click on 'Sign In' in the top right, select AUB from the 'Select (Institution)' list and then click on 'Sign in with my Institution'.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 250 twentieth century theatre productions on streaming video, as well as documentaries and interviews with artists, writers, designers and directors. Also included is access to the BBC Shakespeare collection.
Theatre Performance and Design Collection This link opens in a new window
The first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theatre from production and design to performance, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more. Includes full video performances from the National Theatre, BroadwayHD and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Playtexts & Literature

Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides.

JSTOR Understanding Shakespeare
Complete texts of all of Shakespeare's plays, with each line linked to scholarly articles from the JSTOR archive that quote it, to enable research and close reading.

Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Project Gutenberg offers for free the full text of over 50,000 eBooks which are out of copyright, such as the complete works of Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and allows you to read them online or download them in a range of formats.

Screenplays & Scripts

The Library collection of scripts and screenplays is found at 791.437
Theory and techniques of screenplays and script writing is found at 791.432
You can also find material on writing and narrative at 808.02

ProQuest Screen Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in all the ProQuest film databases (the American Film Institute Catalog, FIAF and Film Index International) using a single search.

The following websites contain links to various scripts and screenplays, although some are simply transcribed from the films themselves.

BBC Writers Room

Internet Archive

Internet Movie Script Database