Costume Design: Renderings
Mar. 20th, 2010 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseSo, i'm smack in the middle of tech for I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me By a Young Lady From Rwanda by Sonja Linden, but i'm on my dinner break right now and figured i'd munch my sandwich over a quick post about costuming the characters.
Recall a few days ago i talked about the color palette for this show. Because the production is entirely pulled/purchased, I started out exploring costumes through character collages: for Simon, images of men dressed as i imagined him, and for Juliette, images of young contemporary upper-middle-class Rwandan women.
Simon's collage
Juliette's collage
Normally, the only folks who see these kinds of things are really the director and the rest of the creative team, and sometimes they get posted in the fitting room for the actors to see as well. They're visual communication tools, kind of like mood boards and trend research boards for fashion designers. They give me a guideline for finding clothing for the characters--not that we're looking for anything exactly the same, but more of a general feel. Once the show has its photo call, i'll show you pictures of the costumes that I settled on. I think, by looking at these, you can imagine pretty clearly how each character's closet probably looks, so to speak.
In the case of this show, I did a couple of renderings after-the-fact though, for the design blog A Sketch A Day. For the curious, here's Simon, and here's Juliette. Each post has commentary on the character and the costume. These were done purely as a sketching exercise, since the process on this show was so fast and fluid that renderings didn't figure into the development. (I've been doing them by flashlight while waiting for time to pass in tech!)
Recall a few days ago i talked about the color palette for this show. Because the production is entirely pulled/purchased, I started out exploring costumes through character collages: for Simon, images of men dressed as i imagined him, and for Juliette, images of young contemporary upper-middle-class Rwandan women.
Simon's collage
Juliette's collage
Normally, the only folks who see these kinds of things are really the director and the rest of the creative team, and sometimes they get posted in the fitting room for the actors to see as well. They're visual communication tools, kind of like mood boards and trend research boards for fashion designers. They give me a guideline for finding clothing for the characters--not that we're looking for anything exactly the same, but more of a general feel. Once the show has its photo call, i'll show you pictures of the costumes that I settled on. I think, by looking at these, you can imagine pretty clearly how each character's closet probably looks, so to speak.
In the case of this show, I did a couple of renderings after-the-fact though, for the design blog A Sketch A Day. For the curious, here's Simon, and here's Juliette. Each post has commentary on the character and the costume. These were done purely as a sketching exercise, since the process on this show was so fast and fluid that renderings didn't figure into the development. (I've been doing them by flashlight while waiting for time to pass in tech!)
