Continuity in the Film and TV Industry

Continuity plays a big part in a makeup artist, hair stylist and stylist's role in TV and Film. Without continuity films and TV series and programmes wouldn't make sense! The audience like to see the characters and the production as real life so if the continuity doesn't reflect that, that's where they start to question the quality of not only the film but the make-up artist themselves!

Many people take notes to record continuity and others take photos so they can physically see what they have created and be able to duplicate that look again if and when need be.
Ive created a rough a little chart in my notebook of something handy when it comes to continuity and might actually create my own continuity journal!

So here I would store all of my notes on the make-up that was applied, the hair and also the clothing that was worn with that make-up and hairstyle. The pictures would be a handy thing to have to show me exactly how the makeup was on the day of filming for example. A way to think of it is, if someone were to read your notes and see your pictures of what you created would they be able to recreate it? So the notes need to be pretty thorough as you may be asked to shoot a scene again that you did months ago so you need to look back and be able to understand what was going on at that time!