The Hair & Makeup Plot

The Plot view of the Hair & Makeup tab is the department's running document: a grid with one row per character and one column per scene in running order, each cell saying which look is on and how the actor gets into it. It is the hair-and-wig counterpart of the costume plot, and it is what gets pinned up at the wig station.

  • Fill a cell: Click any cell to add or edit its entry. Pick the look (from the looks assigned to that character), give it a look number (1st look, 2nd look…), and add a description if the look needs a scene-specific tweak
  • The change: Record how the actor gets from the previous look to this one — Preset Standard or Quick change; where it happens ( Stage left Stage right Dressing room Makeup station Wig room); and how many seconds a quick change has
  • Crew notes: What the person at the station needs to know — which pins come out first, the wig cap stays on, the blood is applied after the sweat
  • Empty cells stay empty: A scene with no entry means the previous look carries, so you only fill the cells where something changes or is first worn
  • Where it also shows: each character's plot rows appear on the By Character view, each linking to the scene

Printing the plot

  • Hair & Makeup Plot (PDF): a landscape grid — one row per character (with the actor's name), one column per scene, each cell the look number ( L2, with a for a quick change, a dash where the character is in the scene with no entry) — followed by a Hair & Makeup Details page per character listing every plotted scene with the look's name, the change, the description and the crew notes the grid has no room for. Download it from the Plot view or from the Reports tab
  • Hair & Makeup Plot (spreadsheet): the same plot as CSV rows — Character, Actor, Act, Scene, Scene Title, Look #, Look, Change Type, Location, Seconds, Description, Crew Notes — for sorting, filtering, or sending to a wig shop or a freelance stylist
  • Same data, both ways: the screen, the PDF and the spreadsheet all read the same plot rows, so the paper can never disagree with the tab

Both documents are available to anyone who can see the cast list, since a row is a character and the actor playing them. Deleting a look leaves its plot entries in place with the look blank, so a renamed or rebuilt look never erases a change the crew has rehearsed.

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