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Costume Design

This document defines costume design and the role of the costume designer. It explains that costume design involves creating clothing for characters based on analysis, research, and collaboration. Costumes are designed to establish time, place, social status and personality of characters while meeting performers' practical needs. Well-designed costumes are important as they immediately provide key information to audiences and help actors embody their roles.

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Costume Design

This document defines costume design and the role of the costume designer. It explains that costume design involves creating clothing for characters based on analysis, research, and collaboration. Costumes are designed to establish time, place, social status and personality of characters while meeting performers' practical needs. Well-designed costumes are important as they immediately provide key information to audiences and help actors embody their roles.

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COSTUME

DESIGN
COSTUME DESIGN
The fabrication of
clothing for the overall
appearance of a
character or performer.
COSTUME DESIGNER
Fashion Designer
Visual Artist
Tailor
Seamstress
Social and Cultural Historian
Art Historian
DESIGN PROCESS
Analysis
Design Collaboration
Costume Research
Preliminary Sketching and Color
Layout
Final Sketches
COSTUMES (Definition)
A set of clothes worn by an actor or other performer for a
particular role. -Oxford Dictionary
An outfit worn to create the appearance characteristic of
a particular period, person, place, or thing. -Merriam
Webster
The clothes that are worn by someone such as an actor
who is trying to look like a different person.
The clothing worn during a play by an actor to help show
the audience that the actor is playing a role.



COSTUMES (FUNCTION)
Establish the Style of the Production
- The costumes should help the audience understand what type of
show theyre seeing.
Indicate Time and Place
- Costume design can help the audience figure out in which
historical period a play is set as well as the locale in which it occurs.
Indicate the Nature of Characters Personalities, Occupations, Station,
etc.
- Are they flamboyant or modest? Rich or poor? Old or young?
COSTUMES (FUNCTIONS)
Show Relationships Among Characters
Meet the Needs of Performers
- Actors have to be able to move freely in a costume. If
there is stage combat, they need to have clothing that
will help them stay safe.
Costumes need to fit in with the overall cohesive picture.
COSTUMES (FUNCTIONS)
Helps create the mood.
Establishes the theme.
Helps the actor portray his character.
Enhances or disguises the actor.
Reflect a characters psychology



WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
immediately supports the characters in the story being told. It
helps an actor find his/her character
will give the audience key information about a character at
first sight
a chief indicator of the time and place of a play
helps create a theatrical experience that is richly enjoyable
from a visual standpoint as well as a dramatic one
can separate major from minor characters, contrast one
group from another, etc.


EXAMPLES

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