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Heather Oosthuizen

Heather Oosthuizen

Freelance make-up artist (TV & Magazines)

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Content Classifier, Programme Acceptance, Media Operations, Multichoice

  • Education

    • Unisa

      2000 - 2005
      Law

      Media LawLaw of ContractFoundations of Private LawLaw of PersonsFamily LawEnglish for Law Introduction to Law Origins of S.A LawComparative Religious StudyCommunication

    • BBC courses held at M-Net

      1999 - 2000
      Television production & broadcasting

      [BBC - Taste of Television] - this course gave practical experience of various live studio functions like camera operating, vision mixing, graphics, VT operating, autocue, etc.[BBC - Audio] - this was a thorough course on the complexities of television audio.[BBC - Essentials of Television] - this course explored the technical side of television, the capabilities of broadcasting equipment, satellites, etc.

    • SA Beauty & Make-up Design School

      1993 - 1994
      Film & Television Make-up and Special Effects

      Won prize for best studentWon 2nd prize in professional division of Body Painting competition a year after graduation

    • AAA School of Advertising

      1991 - 1992
      General Advertising and Marketing

  • Experience

    • AboutFACE

      Jan 1992 - Sept 2019
      Freelance make-up artist (TV & Magazines)

      I did make-up on commercials, corporate video's, and magazines on a freelance basis for over 20 years while working in broadcasting. Website: https://aboutface.co.za/I left make-up behind when I came home to a full time job as a Content Classifier at Multichoice in September 2019.So grateful to have been able to experience the excitement and creativity of this part of my career and the people who I miss like crazy, my wonderful freelance tv family.

    • Foghound Studios

      Jan 1995 - Jan 1998
      Art Department

      Make-up, props and wardrobe

    • MultiChoice Group

      Apr 1998 - now

      Produced terrestrial and mobile channels in a time where we created and ran television channels from start to finish in an older broadcasting environment which had more human involvement and less automation than broadcasting today. Created tops and tails for programmes to include channel branding, worked on the daily line-ups, re-wrote presenter scripts to adapt to last minute content changes, added and removed items to time out the programming to the hour, especially around live events, chose where the ad breaks would be in programmes, checked audio and video quality of programming before it went to air. I loved this job, it taught me EVERYTHING about television. Show less

      • Content Classifier

        Sept 2019 - now

      • Content Classification Consultant

        Jan 2005 - Sept 2019

      • Freelance Transmission Producer

        Apr 1998 - Dec 2004

    • Funeral Guide

      Dec 2007 - Oct 2021
      Website Author

      I created a website called Funeral Guide which I ran for 14 years until I sold it in 2021. In its best years it attracted over 73 000 users per month. Funeral Guide offered free tools and information to help people prepare for, and deal with death and funerals, for example: free will templates, living will templates, poetry, songs for funerals and South African estate administration Information.Funeral Guide was the first website of its kind in the world. Later many copied the concept, and some even copied the name, customizing its features for various countries around the world. Show less

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