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    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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    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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    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

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    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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    The key takeaways are that costume design involves fabricating clothing for a character's appearance, and the roles involved include costume designer, fashion designer, visual artist, tailor, seamstress, social and cultural historian and art historian.

    The different roles involved in costume design mentioned are costume designer, fashion designer, visual artist, tailor, seamstress, social and cultural historian and art historian.

    The main functions of costumes mentioned are to establish the style of production, indicate time and place, indicate nature of characters, show relationships among characters, and meet needs of performers.

    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.


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