The Costume Designer's Toolkit: The Process of Creating Effective Design

ISBN-13: 9780367858278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str.

Holly Poe Durbin

Opis

The Costume Designer’s Toolkit explores the wide-ranging skills required to design costumes for live performance in theatre, dance, opera, and themed entertainment.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Designer’s Tools  1. What the Costume Designer Brings to a Production  2. Collaborative Creativity  3. Design Elements Create a Picture  4. Color Creates Emotions  5. Design Principles Create Meaning  6. Fabrics Create Definition  Part 2: A Designer Prepares  7. Getting Paid: All that Glitters...  8. Script, Plot, and Story  9. The Mechanics of a Script  10. Characters Engage the Audience  11. The Story Unfolds on a Stage  Part 3: A Designer Explores 12. Generating Ideas  13. Adding Authenticity with Research  Part 4: Concept Development  14. The Design Approach  15. Designing the Character Costume  16. Communicating the Costume Design  Part 5: Feasibility  17. Defining the Scope of a Show  18. Budgeting Creative Projects  19. Leading Teamwork  Part 6: Production  20. Pull it Together: Sourcing and Organizing Costumes  21. Styling Menswear  22. Meet Your Maker: Made-to-Order Costumes  23. Accessories and Costume Props  24. Hair and Makeup Design  Part 7: Evaluate  25. Preparing for Fittings  26. Fitting Garments  27. The Rehearsal Period  Part 8: Refine the Vision  28. Dress Rehearsals  Part 9: Opening and Epilogue 29. Design Documentation   30. Growing Your Art Appendix – Sample Resume

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Holly Poe Durbin is an award-winning costume designer for theater, opera, independent film, and themed entertainment. She has collaborated with notable actors such as Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, William Shatner, Martin Short, and Tessa Thompson to create engaging characters. She has worked internationally, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in regional theaters around the US including the South Coast Repertory, the Old Globe Theatres, Mark Taper Forum, St. Louis Repertory, Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Shakespeare Center LA, and Playmakers Repertory in North Carolina. She was the costume director for the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles and is the head of costume design studies at the University of California Irvine.