Ugh...warm
Life rolls on, as it does. And the weather here is hitting it's strange fall-ness. Muggy, sunny and gross one day; pouring rain the next. For anyone planning a trip here in the next few months, remember to pack an umbrella.
The number of projects is slowly whittling down. The dogs should be done and handed over this coming Wednesday. That will be a big sigh of relief. The small pile of alterations I was handed by a friend was returned finished yesterday. Both films I'm pretty much no longer pestered with...
Oh the films. My involvement in the feature length was small to begin with...two days shooting as an extra and I'm no longer being consulted on wardrobe as most of the shooting is done. The short on the other hand...well the short was a pain in my ass.
In the beginning it looked as though I was going to be responsible for all wardrobe. That didn't phase me in the slightest considering the size of the cast. We were looking at mostly uniforms...fatigues at that. Two other characters needed street wear, but being a no budget that type of wardrobe usually just requires a few phone conversations or emails with the cast to select things from their own closet. Occasionally there's a trip to Goodwill or Walmart. The fatigues were the tricky part as I had pointed out in the first meeting that the current ACU is not the green camo many us were previously familiar with. To use a BDU would date the film before it was even shot. The director and I emailed a bit back and forth, me sending images of the current fatigues, him agreeing. I thought we were on the same page, so I went forward. I tracked down and ordered two sets of the ACUs for the leads. I emailed the director to see if anything else was needed. Over a week later he emailed back to say they decided to go with the older BDUs after all, because most of his extras already had them. The work I did do was a waste of my time. And to top it off, he still needed one set of BDUs for the lead. So I still wasn't done.
After that email I mentally washed my hands of the project. If they weren't going to pay heed to the details of military costume why should I? Obviously being dated wasn't a major concern to him. Nor do I suspect the level of accuracy regarding emblems, name badges, headwear and the like mattered either. So find the BDUs (easier than the ACUs by far...almost every theatre has a box of out of date uniforms gathering dust) and be done with it. I handed off that box of costumes on Thursday.
Iona's gala costumes are slowly moving forward. I have a bit left on one bodice and two men's costumes to make. The woman in charge at Iona is a bit panicked about finishing in time, but honestly I think that was mostly her being overly ambition from the start. It will get done. It always does.
Two Halloween costumes need be done, but at this point I think that mostly means ordering pieces...I've no time to make a corset for Mrs. Lovette...
And I hope...I hope...I hope I can still manage to make Taylor Gaboda something for the upcoming wedding. Time is slipping fast...
The number of projects is slowly whittling down. The dogs should be done and handed over this coming Wednesday. That will be a big sigh of relief. The small pile of alterations I was handed by a friend was returned finished yesterday. Both films I'm pretty much no longer pestered with...
Oh the films. My involvement in the feature length was small to begin with...two days shooting as an extra and I'm no longer being consulted on wardrobe as most of the shooting is done. The short on the other hand...well the short was a pain in my ass.
In the beginning it looked as though I was going to be responsible for all wardrobe. That didn't phase me in the slightest considering the size of the cast. We were looking at mostly uniforms...fatigues at that. Two other characters needed street wear, but being a no budget that type of wardrobe usually just requires a few phone conversations or emails with the cast to select things from their own closet. Occasionally there's a trip to Goodwill or Walmart. The fatigues were the tricky part as I had pointed out in the first meeting that the current ACU is not the green camo many us were previously familiar with. To use a BDU would date the film before it was even shot. The director and I emailed a bit back and forth, me sending images of the current fatigues, him agreeing. I thought we were on the same page, so I went forward. I tracked down and ordered two sets of the ACUs for the leads. I emailed the director to see if anything else was needed. Over a week later he emailed back to say they decided to go with the older BDUs after all, because most of his extras already had them. The work I did do was a waste of my time. And to top it off, he still needed one set of BDUs for the lead. So I still wasn't done.
After that email I mentally washed my hands of the project. If they weren't going to pay heed to the details of military costume why should I? Obviously being dated wasn't a major concern to him. Nor do I suspect the level of accuracy regarding emblems, name badges, headwear and the like mattered either. So find the BDUs (easier than the ACUs by far...almost every theatre has a box of out of date uniforms gathering dust) and be done with it. I handed off that box of costumes on Thursday.
Iona's gala costumes are slowly moving forward. I have a bit left on one bodice and two men's costumes to make. The woman in charge at Iona is a bit panicked about finishing in time, but honestly I think that was mostly her being overly ambition from the start. It will get done. It always does.
Two Halloween costumes need be done, but at this point I think that mostly means ordering pieces...I've no time to make a corset for Mrs. Lovette...
And I hope...I hope...I hope I can still manage to make Taylor Gaboda something for the upcoming wedding. Time is slipping fast...
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6:48 PM
2 Comments:
Ugh, that is frustrating. It's one thing if you're designing costumes and making choices, another thing if you're doing it because it's easy.
It's too bad the director of this film isn't interested in accuracy or detail. Having watched about a dozen random out-order episodes of Supernatural last night I noticed a lot of minor details and continuities that just gave me so much more respect for the show. The details make the project!
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