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    This document provides an overview of key concepts for costume design based on script, character, and directorial concept. It discusses how the costume interpretation draws from both the written material and the director's vision for the production. Designers are advised to understand each character's emotional arc, physical requirements, and how costumes can evolve to reflect a character's changes over the course of the story. Location and season are also important script elements to consider for accurate and appropriate costume design. The document stresses the importance of clear communication and collaboration between all parties to achieve a unified artistic vision.

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    21M.732 Beginning Costume Design and Construction


    Fall 2008

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    Script, Character, and Concept


    1. Concept
    a. Director establishes the major focus of the interpretation. Some
    questions to ask: Why do you want to direct this show? Here?
    Now? In this venue?
    b. Performing art is a collaboration. Production suffers if everyone
    is not working towards a common goal. Everyone should be
    aware of what everyone else is doing.
    c. Unity through: knowledge, understanding, communication
    d. Costume interpretation draws from both written material and
    directorial approach.
    2. Character
    a. Scripts emotional tone
    i. How the plot flows, important moments, which
    characters hold primary focus, which are minor but have
    major input, which characters merely fill out the scene,
    what/who changes as story progresses
    ii. Example: Star costume/decorative costume vs. costume
    that grows out of interpretation of the drama
    b. Physical requirements
    i. Character costume develops out of what characters say
    and do and what others say about them. May or may not
    have anything to do with stage directions.
    ii. Sometimes 2D character: Superman, etc. Or clichd, like
    villains
    iii. Costumes can progress to show change in production
    and/or character

    c. DO NOT ANTICIPATE AN ACTION! (Regina, boy and girl


    in powder blue)
    d. Ask:
    i. When do the crucial moments occur in the production,
    and how should they be staged?
    ii. What kind of line, texture, color will best express these
    moments?
    iii. What is the motivation of each character?
    iv. How does each character fit the framework of the entire
    production?
    v. Does the character go through changes as the action
    progresses, and if so how should this evolution be
    expressed?
    vi. What did the character do before the action begins, and
    what will they do after the action ends?
    3. Script
    a. Geography
    i. At times a specific country is not as important as a
    feeling for a general area: Middle East, American West,
    etc. Other times, need to be more specific (Cabaret,
    Streetcar)
    ii. Chekhov Russia, but fashions from France and England
    with a Russian feel.
    iii. Sometimes must be locale NON-specific
    b. Season do they need coats?

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