There are generally three methods of face changing - face wiping, face blowing, and face pulling.
Apply the paint on a specific part of the face, and then apply it on the face with your hands to change it into another color. If you want to change the whole face, apply the oil paint on the forehead or eyebrows. If you want to change only the lower half of the face, the oil paint can be applied on the face or nose.
Face blowing: It is only suitable for powdered cosmetics, such as gold powder, toner powder, silver powder, etc. Some people put a small box on the floor of the stage with powder inside, and the actor will do a squat on the ground. Using dance moves, he took the opportunity to put his face close to the box and blow on it. The powder hit his face and it immediately turned into a face of another color.
Face-changing: a relatively complicated method of changing faces. It involves drawing facial makeup on pieces of silk beforehand, cutting them, and tying a silk thread to each mask. Then stick them on the face one by one, and tie the silk thread to a convenient and unobtrusive place on the clothes. According to the needs of the performance, under the cover of dance movements, they are pulled off one by one. .
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Secrets of changing faces:
One or eight facial masks, all of which are full faces. Generally, "face changes" are mostly half-faces, somewhat similar to the movie "Zorro", with the mouth exposed; Wangdaozheng is a full face, and solves the problems of exhalation, inhalation and vocalization, and it looks like it is directly sketched on Net angle facial makeup;
2. Two-way face changing. First, the facial makeup of green, blue, yellow, brown, black and other colors shows its true face, and then it turns into a golden face. In other words, Wang Daozheng first pulled off the facial makeup one by one to reveal his "true face in Lushan", and finally covered his face with a golden face to hide his true body;
3. Closely integrate the development of the plot to express the inner feelings of the characters. The purple and gold cymbals changed several times, and the fourth brown face of "Magpie making trouble with plum blossoms" appeared. He thought he had succeeded and subdued the white lady. He was as happy as a child, clapping his hands and jumping his feet. When he uncovered his yin and yang magic weapon, he screamed: "Hey, he ran away!" Suddenly his face turned blue with anger and his whole body was on fire. Here, Wang Daozheng created a black face with stars in his eyes, lights on his head, chest and back, making the image lifelike.
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