Costume Design!
So, I've mainly just been doing stuff for the Silent Caller, though I'm taking far too much time just hanging out/playing cards/watching movies/going shopping for fabric with Sienna/playing or watching Ben's Wii. I made a handbag a couple of days ago, which was great... I need to find a bunch more sewing projects, though. I have some random fabrics and patterns, but I need to figure out what to do with things. I'm going to make Eliz a skirt as soon as she picks a pattern and a fabric, though. And maybe a few more handbags -- good uses for fairly small pieces of fabric. I also started crocheting a scarf (having gotten two little things of yarn while I was at the fabric store) but ran out of yarn. I'll have to get more this weekend.
And now, by Audrey's request, the details of what-the-heck it means to design something for a show here! (Audrey, have you taken Materials of Theater yet? You really have to take it... and not just in the "yes, that would be required for the major" sense, but in the "may reveal that you actually love designing/crafting things" sense.)
So, how did I get "qualified"? I took Materials of Theater sophomore year, then Costume Design last semester (because I wanted to take an intermediate design course and that was what was offered). I ended up really liking costume design, so when it turned out they were looking for people to design the couple of shows this semester that just have to be "shopped" (nothing gets created from scratch, you just get to go out and do a lot of shopping for things), my name got on that list. First thing I heard about it: Michael's email saying, "So, Elly, Linda says you've been assigned to do costumes for the Silent Caller..." My reaction: Really?
then, the process starts with doing a ton of research about all the various aspects of the show, like where it's set, what time of year it is, ages of the characters, and what all the characters do for a living (or at least how much money they earn/would spend on clothing). This then becomes about researching what kind of clothing is appropriate for each particular character's situation (answering questions like, what do upper-middle-class 16 year old girls in Connecticut wear, anyway? How about female patent attorneys in their late 40's?). So that's what I've been doing for the last couple of weeks -- looking at pictures in magazines and about a billion pictures online. On Monday my "designs" are due -- since it's a shopped show, that's going to be probably pictures of what my ideal costumes would look like (probably like, "she'd be wearing the shirt from this picture, and the skirt from this other picture, and the necklace in this picture...") I don't think I have to really do drawings for this one.
And then, once the general look and the designs are approved, we start shopping, trying to find things that look like my "ideal" articles of clothing, but for a fraction of the price. And then... I don't know what else! Unfortunately, I don't really have any great set of guidelines for exactly how the process works. I'm kind of having to figure a lot of it out as I go along. Then again, apparently I'm in good shape so far... I also have to be enrolled in Design Studio to do/get credit for this, which throws a small bit of a monkey wrench into my already crazy schedule. Yay.
Less than a week and a half of interterm left... makes me sad. I'm liking taking way too much free time, and doing absolutely none of the internship planing stuff I was intending to do. There are better things in life right now, I think.
And now, by Audrey's request, the details of what-the-heck it means to design something for a show here! (Audrey, have you taken Materials of Theater yet? You really have to take it... and not just in the "yes, that would be required for the major" sense, but in the "may reveal that you actually love designing/crafting things" sense.)
So, how did I get "qualified"? I took Materials of Theater sophomore year, then Costume Design last semester (because I wanted to take an intermediate design course and that was what was offered). I ended up really liking costume design, so when it turned out they were looking for people to design the couple of shows this semester that just have to be "shopped" (nothing gets created from scratch, you just get to go out and do a lot of shopping for things), my name got on that list. First thing I heard about it: Michael's email saying, "So, Elly, Linda says you've been assigned to do costumes for the Silent Caller..." My reaction: Really?
then, the process starts with doing a ton of research about all the various aspects of the show, like where it's set, what time of year it is, ages of the characters, and what all the characters do for a living (or at least how much money they earn/would spend on clothing). This then becomes about researching what kind of clothing is appropriate for each particular character's situation (answering questions like, what do upper-middle-class 16 year old girls in Connecticut wear, anyway? How about female patent attorneys in their late 40's?). So that's what I've been doing for the last couple of weeks -- looking at pictures in magazines and about a billion pictures online. On Monday my "designs" are due -- since it's a shopped show, that's going to be probably pictures of what my ideal costumes would look like (probably like, "she'd be wearing the shirt from this picture, and the skirt from this other picture, and the necklace in this picture...") I don't think I have to really do drawings for this one.
And then, once the general look and the designs are approved, we start shopping, trying to find things that look like my "ideal" articles of clothing, but for a fraction of the price. And then... I don't know what else! Unfortunately, I don't really have any great set of guidelines for exactly how the process works. I'm kind of having to figure a lot of it out as I go along. Then again, apparently I'm in good shape so far... I also have to be enrolled in Design Studio to do/get credit for this, which throws a small bit of a monkey wrench into my already crazy schedule. Yay.
Less than a week and a half of interterm left... makes me sad. I'm liking taking way too much free time, and doing absolutely none of the internship planing stuff I was intending to do. There are better things in life right now, I think.