COSTUME DESIGN

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COSTUME DESIGN
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Costume Design

• How important are the clothes you wear to you?
• What is your favorite or coolest outfit or item
  of clothing that you have worn in your entire
  life? Why?

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Clothes can immediately communicate

• Position and status
• Gender
• Occupation
• Occasion
• A bit about personality (is the person
  flamboyant? Modest? Independent? A conformist?
  Etc)

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WHAT ARE COSTUMES?

• The term costume can refer to wardrobe and
  dress in general, or to the distinctive style of
  dress of a particular people, time, class, social
  status, or age.

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WHAT ARE COSTUMES?

• They are more than just the clothes that actors
  wear in a play.
• They help portray the character.
• Help the audience understand the time and place
  of the story.

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WHAT REQUIREMENTS MUST A DESIGNER MEET?

• The costumes of the designer must readily reveal
  to the audience the characters personality.
• The first impression of a character is
  almost always visual.
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• 55 Appearance
• 38 Voice
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• Costume designs are many times the most memorable
  part of a character.

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WHAT REQUIREMENTS MUST A DESIGNER MEET?

• The costumes must reveal the characters
• AGE
• OCCUPATION
• WEALTH
• SOCIAL POSITION

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WHAT REQUIREMENTS MUST A DESIGNER MEET?

• 3. The costumes must reflect the setting, tone,
  and style of the play, and indicate both time and
  place.

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The Costume Designer's Objectives

• They also set Tone and Style

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DIY - Costume
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There are 4 things to consider when planning a
costume.

• Just as the elements of a painting work together
  to create a harmonious image, costumes must work
  with the lighting and sets to create the stage
  image.
• Color, shape, line, and texture are all
  considered when designing costumes.

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1. Consider the color.

• Proper choice of color will help establish the
  plays mood and the personality of the character.
  
• Blues and greens are restful
• Red coveys danger or anger
• Black denotes tragedy
• Purple suggest royalty
• White is associated with purity
• and innocence

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Blade Runner

• A dismal, oppressive future world, such as the
  one depicted in the film Blade Runner (1982),
  used cool, dark shades to evoke a bleak mood.

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Little Miss Sunshine

• The costume designer used different colors to
  subtly indicate the personality of each member of
  the dysfunctional family in Little Miss
  Sunshine (2006).

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While the costumes colors may go unnoticed by
the audience, they subconsciously affect viewers
perceptions of the characters.
Costumes are also used to focus attention on the
major actors and the important action in a scene.
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Costume designer for Erin Brockovich (2000),
dressed the secondary characters in colors that
would not detract attention from star Julia
Roberts

• The sandy earth tones of their costumes echoed
  the films desert setting and provided a neutral
  background against which Robertss bright and
  provocative outfits stood out.

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Gary JonesCostume Designer
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• Shape
• Line
• Texture