Over analyzing
No one is harder on me than myself.
A constant comment from faculty and friends.
That and I think to much and need to react more.
Mostly this refers to Country Wife, though as some people know this has been in issue in life outside of school as well.
We're only two weeks into the design process, with at least three more meetings with the director before she heads out of the country. Considering that, I am in perfect shape for the meeting this coming Wednesday. I have a set of rough sketches--more completely done than everything I've had done by this stage on any other project, realized or other. After my experience on Audrey with a director who could only see squiggles on a page when I showed him the first draft. Frustrating, but not everyone is visual.
I'm not happy with my work thus far on this project. It hasn't progressed as far as I would like. This weekend I got to the point where I just needed to put something, anything down on the page. Writers block of the costume designer. I'm stuck in the confines of the time period and having trouble breaking out of it. The characters that resulted on the page are just that--they are fairly developed individuals...but within the limits of the 1690's. I'm having trouble applying a greater scope or depth to the piece. Inspiration is lacking more than anything else.
The faculty has been great. In class and in private meetings, I showed my roughs to others. Both were very positive (though classmates are staying respectfully distance, as period shows are not something they are comfortably talking through). One suggested color and fabrics may be the element missing--the key to the style or concept that is still developing. The other professor essentially told me to calm the fuck down and ease up--not in those exact words mind you. He's right. It's still early in the design process and I am where I should be. I have something on the page for the director to react to.
Actors may bear themselves on the stage. We bear ourselves on paper.
A constant comment from faculty and friends.
That and I think to much and need to react more.
Mostly this refers to Country Wife, though as some people know this has been in issue in life outside of school as well.
We're only two weeks into the design process, with at least three more meetings with the director before she heads out of the country. Considering that, I am in perfect shape for the meeting this coming Wednesday. I have a set of rough sketches--more completely done than everything I've had done by this stage on any other project, realized or other. After my experience on Audrey with a director who could only see squiggles on a page when I showed him the first draft. Frustrating, but not everyone is visual.
I'm not happy with my work thus far on this project. It hasn't progressed as far as I would like. This weekend I got to the point where I just needed to put something, anything down on the page. Writers block of the costume designer. I'm stuck in the confines of the time period and having trouble breaking out of it. The characters that resulted on the page are just that--they are fairly developed individuals...but within the limits of the 1690's. I'm having trouble applying a greater scope or depth to the piece. Inspiration is lacking more than anything else.
The faculty has been great. In class and in private meetings, I showed my roughs to others. Both were very positive (though classmates are staying respectfully distance, as period shows are not something they are comfortably talking through). One suggested color and fabrics may be the element missing--the key to the style or concept that is still developing. The other professor essentially told me to calm the fuck down and ease up--not in those exact words mind you. He's right. It's still early in the design process and I am where I should be. I have something on the page for the director to react to.
Actors may bear themselves on the stage. We bear ourselves on paper.
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6:46 PM
1 Comments:
Having just finished working on this in a studio class, I would be interested if you would share your design ideas on these characters. I know that I found that it was quite hard to move past the icon of each of them as they were written in the period. Good luck
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