Welcome, Hollywood!
I don't think you have to worry about the clown name unless there
is already a "Hollywood" in your area where you would be directly
competing.
I would also avoid the big-name obvious ones like "Ronald McDonald"
or "Bozo" -- those would get you in trouble for sure.
But I'm sure there are many clown names that are duplicated across
the country and around the world. Just be sensitive to established
clowns in your marketing area.
And the same goes with makeup -- don't copy another clowns face.
Odds are, it wouldn't work for you anyway. Instead, use YOUR face
as the canvas and use makeup to emphasize YOUR expressions and
facial features.
I've said this in other threads - remember that makeup isn't a mask
to hide behind, but was traditionally (and still is!) used to help convey
expression to the back of the room before there were microphones and
sound systems and such.
Clowns are just "live-action" puppets in a lot of ways. Or, my friend likes
to say that we're live cartoon characters. Use a lot of motion -- animate,
animate, animate!
Be sure to look at and use the books that Scruffy recommends - you may
even find them in your local library.
And feel free to post questions here - there's a lot of help to be found.
Ashes
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