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COSTUME DESIGN

CREATIVE RESPONSE YEAR 11 TERTIARY ENGLISH. COSTUME DESIGN. What is the Setting of your play?. Town vs country? Nationality? Historical period? Are you going to change the setting compared to the original as part of being creative?. Character and Themes.

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COSTUME DESIGN

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  1. CREATIVE RESPONSE YEAR 11 TERTIARY ENGLISH COSTUME DESIGN

  2. What is the Setting of your play? • Town vs country? • Nationality? • Historical period? • Are you going to change the setting compared to the original as part of being creative?

  3. Character and Themes • Who is your character – aspects of personality, mood, ability to relate, reputation? • How can you make their clothing symbolic of this? • What message needs to be sent by their appearance? • How can you make the costume reflect themes also?

  4. Historical Dress • What was expected – standards, cultural norms? • What was popular, fashionable? • Social status reflected in clothing? • What is practical? • Does age make a difference? • Does race make a difference? • Does climate make a difference? • Does gender make a difference? • Occupation?

  5. Fashion runs in cycles • Where are you in the cycle compared to where you want to be?? • Research this if you don’t know about how fashion works

  6. Shape of garments • What outline sends which message? • What sort of body shape does your character have? • Also consider lines within the garment – will you have panels, pieces, do they all need to be the same as one another? • Are there patterns printed on the fabric and what do they represent? • Eg . A simple shift dress cut in a single panel sends a different message to a multifaceted skirt

  7. What colours will you choose? • Colours have meaning – if you don’t know you need to find out!!

  8. Symbols • How can you add layers of meaning beyond the literal eg. She is wearing a dress because she is a girl (literal) • How can the following symbols be interpreted?

  9. Texture • Is your fabric flat and woven or something else? • How can you choose texture that represents character symbolically? • What is suggested by the following fabrics typically? How can you be creative?

  10. Fabric Content • Usually chosen for practical reasons but you are also supposed to be symbolic • Is fabric content linked to social status? • Climate? • Historical period? • Aspects of characterisation? • Themes? • The ties are woven silk – meaning?

  11. Purpose • Are there different garments for different occasions or scenes? • Do the costumes need to be practical, related to employment? • Or is overall impression more important? • EVERYTHING is possible in a drawing compared to real life!! Be creative!

  12. Costume is more than just clothes... • Consider accessories and personal items that can be carried around – props • Footwear • Headwear, hats, hair accessories • They should be designed deliberately also • What is suggested by the following personal items?

  13. Consider Hair-style & Make-up • Need to match characterisation • Themes • Historical period • Practical considerations or otherwise

  14. Need fresh original designs... • Not just something that a personal shopper would put together for a ‘what’s hot’ spread in a blog or magazine...

  15. How should I present my designs? • Can be hand drawn with detailed descriptions • It is better to use actual fabric samples or on a paper doll outline or an actual doll – not Barbie unless you really want to send the ‘porn star’ message... • Actual sewn miniature garment or garments would be more impressive again • Use a scrapbook approach? • Remember to acknowledge all your influences and decisions in your rationale as well as using textual evidence to analyse themes from your play – more on the rationale from the class teacher!

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