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Costume Design Essentials: Setting the Stage for Character Communication

Explore the importance of setting, tone, functionality, status, occasion, and relationships in costume design. Learn how to research time periods, settings, and social situations to create costumes that effectively convey mood and style.

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Costume Design Essentials: Setting the Stage for Character Communication

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  1. Clothes can communicate all of these • Setting (time and place) • Tone • Functionality (movement) • Status / Occupation • Occasion • Relationships between characters

  2. The Designer's Objective: Setting • Before you begin to design costumes, you must first research the time period, the setting, and any relevant social situations. • Good sources include: paintings, books, photos, illustrations from the time period as well as costume design books.

  3. The Designer's Objective: Setting

  4. The Designer's Objective: Setting the mood, tone and style Mood and tone are all about the feel of the play. • Eloquent • Fancy • Funny • Whimsical • Serious • Dramatic

  5. The Designer's Objective: Setting the mood, tone and style

  6. The Designer's Objective:Functionality • Where movement and costume switches meet

  7. The Designer's Objective:Functionality

  8. The Designer's Objective: Status / Social Class / Occupation

  9. What social classes do we have in the United States? • Upper Class • Middle Class • Upper middle • Middle middle • Lower middle • Working class • Lower class / unemployed

  10. The Designer's Objective: Occasion (combined with time period)

  11. The Designer's Objective: Establish relationships

  12. Functionality and Establishing Relationships

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