Early Release
Tuesday nights are usually spent in the costume shop until 10pm doing shop hours. Apparently we are so far ahead on the current show that we were released an hour early. Too bad my dance designs have not been approved. The shop could start on those now without interfering with Scapin or Peace Prize. C'est le vie. The production manager from the dance program has yet to send me any budget information, so I can't move much further at the moment.
I am having trouble motivating myself for David's class, as usual. We presented our roughs for the entire musical of Candide (entire is a lie...we had 35 of roughly 70 costumes to design). After critiquing and encouraging he chose two costumes for us to build, one male and one female. This wouldn't be a concern if it weren't for three minor points:
1) These are Georgian garments--18th century panniers and frock coats. These dresses took three weeks for us to mock up in draping last semester.
2) We are building these from found objects, meaning mostly paper. In addition to coming up with the pattern, most of us will be making yardage of material out of products such as newspaper, magazines, jello boxes, etc. I did luck out on one--wallpaper already comes in decent sized pieces; however it will take several hours to prepare the magazines for the dress. Tape spray adhesive or rubber cement?
3) We have two weeks. In addition to full color renderings of all 35 costumes of course.
It is a fabulous project and I look foreword to doing it. I just don't believe David fully thinks out the projects. He himself cannot sew nor drape, which makes me doubt he realizes how time consuming this project will be. I will be keeping an hourly log. At least I have the pannier pattern already from last semester. I'll be sure to post pictures of the muslin from draping next to the magazine concoction from David's class.
I am having trouble motivating myself for David's class, as usual. We presented our roughs for the entire musical of Candide (entire is a lie...we had 35 of roughly 70 costumes to design). After critiquing and encouraging he chose two costumes for us to build, one male and one female. This wouldn't be a concern if it weren't for three minor points:
1) These are Georgian garments--18th century panniers and frock coats. These dresses took three weeks for us to mock up in draping last semester.
2) We are building these from found objects, meaning mostly paper. In addition to coming up with the pattern, most of us will be making yardage of material out of products such as newspaper, magazines, jello boxes, etc. I did luck out on one--wallpaper already comes in decent sized pieces; however it will take several hours to prepare the magazines for the dress. Tape spray adhesive or rubber cement?
3) We have two weeks. In addition to full color renderings of all 35 costumes of course.
It is a fabulous project and I look foreword to doing it. I just don't believe David fully thinks out the projects. He himself cannot sew nor drape, which makes me doubt he realizes how time consuming this project will be. I will be keeping an hourly log. At least I have the pannier pattern already from last semester. I'll be sure to post pictures of the muslin from draping next to the magazine concoction from David's class.
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8:19 PM
1 Comments:
Wow! That does sound like a cool project, and a Sh*t load of work. How dissapointing that your prof doesn't realize how much time it takes! Don't kill yourself, dear. I know you'll do a fabulous job, but try and get some sleep too.
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