Goals

• establish tone and style
• establish time period and location
• give information on characters and groups of characters
• aid the performer
• coordinate with director's concept and other designers' work

• silhouette = line+mass
• composition
• space
• color
• texture - 2D and 3D
• movement - from fabric and cut

• fabrics, leathers, metals, plastics
• sewing machine, hot glue gun
• accessories
• actors themselves

• Text analysis - look for characters, their groupings, how they change, their actions
• Production meetings with director and other designers
• Thumbnail sketches
• Renderings with swatches, descriptions, alternate views
• Fittings
• Costume parade
• Dress Rehearsals

• Pre-19th century: actors found own costumes
• Companies owned stock of costumes
• 19th century: job of costume designer evolves as historical specialist
• Publication of books on historical and local costumes make it possible
• Late 19th century: director's job and unity as visual ideal evolve
• Costume designer's role defined as it is today

• make an actor's features visible
• create character
• can aid in communicating time period or location
• corrective make-up
• fantastical characters
• techniques: highlight/shadow, stippling
• prosthetics, plastics for great exaggerations to human form