Given a handout portraying four young women, design outfits for each that suggest a group identity but are not identical. Students learn to manipulate the basic sloper that they have drafted to create a number of different styles. Student spend a session experimenting with mixing colors, first with paint, then with fabrics. Students are assigned a persona, such as Victorian schoolmistress, punk, WASP, etc., and create a wedding dress out of newspaper in a single class session. Transformation of materials is encouraged. Teams of students pick an image of a period costume, and emulate it using thrift store purchases. They then render a character using the same principles of design observed in the food picture. Students were asked to bring in a photo of a food that they find attractive. (Images: Student A, Student B)īegin drafting unit: bodice and hip blockĪds for Vytorin, an anti-cholesterol drug, feature photos of food and people with matching appearances. Students share their renderings of dresses designed with a dominant vertical, horizontal and diagonal line. Watch excerpts of Hamlet by Zeffirelli and discuss idea of concept Students spend a session practicing contour drawing, still lifes from a distance, 2 second impression sketches, and drawing fabric draping and pleats. Look at research for On the Harm of Tobacco 'Teaching Visual Communication: Using Image Cards as a Teaching Tool.' Theatre Design & Technology 39 (Winter 2003): 10-16. The use of cards in this exercise is adapted from Tiala, Crystal. Each student talks aboout why they made their choices and hears feedback from the group. We then try and determine which emotions are represented. Students choose an emotion from a list and them assemble a group of cards of their choice to represent that emotion. Lecture: Script and Character Analysis Research Styles of Costumesĭiscuss On the Harm of Tobacco renderingsĬards are layed out that feature photos of different colors and textures. What is a costume? Why a costume designer?ĭiscuss Little Red Riding Hood versions and the idea of concept

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