Design
Design
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For three days we went to the Maroney Theater and talked with Bradley Moore, the executive director of Piedmont Players, and Janet Pyatt, the proprietor & Seamstress of Backcountry Peddler A Living History Mercantile, we worked on acting out a play and thinking of the theme and personality of the character in that play first to get a feel of how the personality and date of the play make a huge impact on the costume. We continued to talk and brainstorm some ideas of how we would make costumes for that play that matched the time setting and overall general theme. After many failed attempts at costumes and redoing them to perfection the class picked out the fabrics we would use with our costumes and presented our ideas to the rest.
My progression
My progression
As a dancer, I thought there wasn't much more I could learn about costumes but after meeting Janet Pyatt and Bradley Moore and going to the theater I was surprised. Mrs. Pyatt explained what colors look good on stage and what designs don't look good anywhere. I learned that costumes must go with the character's personality or it won't match but the year of the clothing and the color related to everyone else mattered.
The class started with designing a costume by ourselves. After finishing the front and back of the costume we picked out fabrics and colors that would suit the character's personality and nature but also embody the period it's set to be in. This was made into a presentation we performed for each other and Mr. Moore.
We created many costumes and explored different fabrics and techniques for making the costumes you see in movies. It was a fun experience that aimed to help us think creatively and also learn to connect colors and textures with periods and personalities.
FINAL PRODUCT
At the end of the experience, I had a dress for a princess made with hot red meshed flowers as a top layer over the light pink tool underneath and a red and magenta waistband and top. The fabrics and designs connect to the princess's fiery attitude but with a soft touch that shows her royalty.
Life Skills
Life Skills
Costume designing takes a lot of patience and requires a creative problem solver to overcome artists' challenges and continue even when the piece doesn't look great. It takes a lot of knowledge and research to make multiple or just one costume for a certain character in a certain period that has the colors go with the colors of the other's costume colors.
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