FLIX INSTITUTE: Why use Royalty Free photos?
Mon, 25 Feb 2008, 06:13 pmWARNING28 posts in thread
FLIX INSTITUTE: Why use Royalty Free photos?
Mon, 25 Feb 2008, 06:13 pmA good friend of mine was once a student at a Brisbane Makeup School called Flix Institute of Makeup. After seeing my friend being taken for a ride by this place and left not happy with the quality of this school, I decided to do something that not many people have done before and RESEARCHED this place!
I feel that it is important to reveal to anyone wanting to learn this craft what I have found and what this unprofessional place falsely displays to promote themselves.
Firstly Flix Institute is a Makeup Training School which is run by a lady named Angela Waugh that also runs a business called Angel IFX that supplies makeup and hair services for weddings. The one thing that I would firstly like to bring up is that photos on the Flix Institute web site and the photos on the Angel IFX web site are "ROYALTY FREE IMAGES" this means that the photos of makeup that are obviously displayed to showcase what they can do are not and have not been created by Angela Waugh, any trainer or any artist or student! All these photos have been bought. This is a major red light to start with. On the Angel IFX website the following is said:
"Over the last six years, Angel IFX have grown to become one of Australia’s largest hair and makeup Bridal Agencies. Our fully Qualified and experienced makeup artists and Hairstylists have all been trained by leading academies world wide, and have been called upon by such magazines as CLEO, Ralph and Black and White magazine to name but a few. Angel IFX consists of award winning and Internationally renowned Artists whose work has also features in such productions as Lord Of the Rings, Harry Potter, Anaconda II and House of Wax, and have also been requested personally by Paris Hilton and Kate Hudson, among others, for various red Carpet Events".
If this place has been running for 6 years and has "INTERNATIONAL" artists, why is this site full of royalty free images? I would think that they should have enough photos of there own work to show case there skills??
With Flix Institute, the last place I would want to learn from is a place that displays only 10 photos of students work and the rest Royalty Free??
Below are the links to the royalty free photos used on Flix Institute and Angel IFX web sites.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/3747159_the_beautiful_young_blonde.php?id=3747159
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/relationships/weddings/brides/3084425_the_bride.php?id=3084425
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/3977047_bride_and_groom.php?id=3977047
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/gender/female/women/3428801_pearls.php?id=3428801
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/4021853_bride_in_the_limousine.php?id=4021853
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=4366561
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Tue, 26 Feb 2008, 08:33 pmWalter Plinge
It all sounds very interesting.
I am a trainer at FLIX institute of Makeup; and I have actually worked on some of the publications they use as part of there credits; including Ralph and Cleo. And have also completed work for Angel IFX over the last 6 months.
I don't know about all of the photo's that are used to advertise on their websites; however know that some of them I have worked with conjointly with different photographers and have given full permission for both companies to use the photo's for advertising purposes on the sites. I know most of the other trainers, and many of the students that have come through over the last 6 months and know that they have all done the same. There are over 15 trainers at FLIX now, Angela not being one of them currently, and if you visit the institute and walk around much of the work that the trainers and students have completed are show cased.
I am currently training three different courses, and over 30 students; all of which are extremely excited about the courses they are doing and have nothing but positive feedback on what they are doing, and the work and experience the team at FLIX are getting them. So everyone must realise that Angela (who it seems everyone seems to focus on in these posts); is just one of the managers of Flix, she is currently not training, and has brought together a large group of experienced trainers from all over the world to train the interested students of Brisbane. There is nothing dodgy what so ever about FLIX, and from a makeup artists point of view, I think they are doing really well in training for the industry, and personally recommend them to everyone.
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