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Costume Design

Photo Caption: Richard III Costume Design

COSTUME DESIGN

  • visually, performer and costume are perceived as one
  • costumes add…
  • color
  • shape
  • texture
  • symbolism to the overall effect

Photo Caption: Singin’ in the Rain Costume Design

  • clothes suggest:
  • position and status
  • gender
  • occupation
  • flamboyance or modesty
  • independence or regimentation
  • occasion—work or leisure, a routing or special event

Photo Caption: Wit Costume Design

  • the costume designer…
  • is responsible for creating costumes for performers
  • reading text to research to creation
  • develops visual ideas with the director
  • must determine how costumes will actually look on performers in front of an audience

Photo Caption: Costume Design Sketches

  • the costume designer’s objectives
  • help establish the tone and style of a production
  • indicate the historical period of a play and the locale in which it is set ; time and place
  • indicate the nature of individual characters or groups in a play: their stations in life, their occupations, their personalities; their essence
  • tells the story

Photo Caption: You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown Costume Design

  • show relationships among characters: separate major characters from minor ones, contrast one group with another

  • meet the needs of individual performers: make it possible for an actor or actress to move freely in a costume; allow a performer to dance or engage in a sword fight, for instance; when necessary, allow performers to change quickly from one costume to another; practicality

  • be consistent with the production as a whole, especially with other visual elements

Photo Caption: Take Me Out Costume Design

  • composition = space, focus, proportion, rhythm, harmony
  • elements of costume design
  • line, shape, and silhouette
  • color
  • fabric, texture, pattern
  • ornaments and accessories

Photo Caption: Oklahoma! Costume Design

  • the costume designer’s collaborators
  • costume shop supervisor
  • cutter-draper
  • first hand, or lead stitcher
  • design assistants or costume crafts specialists
  • wardrobe supervisor
  • dressers

Photo Caption: Hair Costume Design

  • related elements of costume design
  • makeup
  • the application of paints, powders, rouges to the face and body
  • helps the performer personify and
    embody a character

Photo Caption: Kabuki Theatre Stage Makeup

  • hairstyles and wigs
  • for women, denote
    period and social class
  • for men, they are
    sometimes symbolic

Photo Caption: Example of Stage Costumes-Wigs/Hair

  • masks
  • an extension of the performer
  • remind us that we are in a
    theatre
  • allow a face to be frozen in
    one expression
  • make a face larger than life

Photo Caption: Example of Stage Costumes-Masks

  • millinery, accessories, and crafts
  • include: hats, walking sticks, jewelry, purses, parasols, and royal staffs
  • items instantly refer to historical periods
  • make visual statements about character and locale

Photo Caption: Example of Stage Costumes-Millinery