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DESCRIPTION: Advanced exploration into the costume
design process, including:
researching techniques--library and the Web, script analysis, the costume
designer's role
though out the production process. Design exercises which will
explore the elements and
principles of design and their relationship to costumes. Rendering
projects will cover all the
major costume periods from Egyptian to Renaissance.
ART MATERIALS: 9" x 12" or 11"
x 14" drawing paper
Tracing paper--9" x 12” or 11" x 14"
Drawing pencils: HB, B, 2B, Ebony, etc.
Color pencils/markers/pastels
Basic set of Watercolors or gouache
Watercolor paper--140 lb.
Watercolor brushes--size 5, 7 round tip Sableline and a
small flat tip brush
Watercolor palette or tray, water jar, etc.
TEXT: The
Costume Designer's Handbook Ingham and Covey (the 1992 edition)
Heinemann Educational Books
SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT:
Fashion Sketchbook Bina Abling (second edition) Fairchild Publishers
SCRIPTS: The Bacchae by Euripides
Ancrocles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw
King Lear by Wm. Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
WEB SIGHTS:
http://member.aol.com/nebula5/
The Costume Page
This page
will link you to numerous resource pages including costume books on line
and
museums.
http://www.costumes.org
CLASS FORMAT:
1. Classes exploring the design elements and principles, and how
they
relate to the costume designer, including analysis of costume design
work and projects.
2. Dicusssion classes exploring the production process, including:
Script analysis, researching and library techniques, budgets, organizational
skills,
communication skills, working with the shop staff, fittings, dress
rehearsals, resumes and
portfolios.
3. Project oriented classes including: design project presentations.
4. Rendering technique labs.
PRODUCTIONS: All students will be required to attend
all FSU School of Theatre
productions: Pippen, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
and Doll’s House.
GRADING AND PROJECTS:
The Egyptian Project
10%
The Bacchae
10%
Ancrocles and the Lion
10%
King Lear
20%
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
20%
Papeer on Professional Costume Designer
10%
Design Exercise Projects
10%
Rendering and Discussion Participation
10%
A 90-100% B 80-89% C 70-79% D 60-69% F 0-58%
All work is to be finished on day of critique. Work handed in
more than one week late
will be dropped by one half grade. Any exception to this must
be discussed with me
prior to the due date.
ABSENCES: Only TWO unexcused absences will be allowed.
For each additional
absence, the final grade will be lowered by one/third--for example:
an A becomes and A-,
A- becomes a B+, etc. Students are expected to arrive promptly.
Excessive tardiness will
be considered as an absence.
ADA: Anyone with a disability needs to report to the Student
Disability Resource Center for
proper documentation.
FSU HONOR CODE: Students are expected to uphold the
Academic Honor code
published in The Florida State University Bulletin and Student Handbook.
Each student
has the responsibility:
1. to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity
in the student's own work,
2. to refuse to tolerate violations of academic integrity
in the University
community,
3. to foster a high sense of integrity and social responsibility
on the part of the
University community.
Violations of this code in any assignment, test, paper, or attendance
sign-in will receive a
minimum penalty of a grade of zero for the assignment in question and/or
may receive an
"F" for the course at the option of the instructor.
CALENDAR:
Aug. 25 Introduction to class--Design
elements and design principles
27
Continuation of elements and principles and their relation to costume design.
Design Excercises: Line and Shape
1
Script Analysis--Costume Design Research (Research Scavenger Hunt)
Sept. 3 Project # 1--Egyptian--Research,
preliminary sketches and swatches.
Directors and concepts; communication with other designers.
8
Design Project: Line and Shape; design excercises: balance
and scale.
10
Project # 1--Egyptian--Final sketches and swatches.
The production period--charts, plots, swatch sheets and budget.
15
Design Project: Balance and scale; design excercises:
texture.
17
Project # 2--The Bacchae-- Research, prelimiary sketches and swatches.
The actor and fittings.
22
Design Project: Texture; design excercises: value.
24
DESIGN PROJECT # 2--The Bacchae--Final sketches and swatches.
Production meetings, rehearsals, and stage management.
29
Rendering--The Figure--poses.
Oct. 1 Rendering--The Figure--faces.
Buying and renting--sources.
6
Design project: Value; design excercises: Color schemes--Monochromatic
and Analogous.
8
Project # 3--Ancroclies and the Lion-- Research, prelimiary sketches
and
swatches. Pulling and buying clothing.
13
Rendering--The Figure--hands and feet.
15
DESIGN PROJECT # 3--Ancroclies and the Lion--Final sketches and
swatches.
20
Rendering--Drapery
22
Project # 4--King Lear--Research, prelimiary sketches and swatches.
First dress, wardrobe and strike.
27
Rendering--Clothing.
29
Design project: Color Schemes--Monochromatic and Analagous;
design
excercises: color schemes--complimentary and triadic.
Nov. 3 Rendering--Textiles and Accessories.
5
DESIGN PROJECT # 4--King Lear--Final sketches and swatches.
10
Design project: Color Schemes--Complimentary and Triadic; design
excercises: Split complimentary.
12
Research Paper: Professional Costume Designers.
17
Rendering--Media Techniques: Watercolor
19
Project # 5--Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead--Research, prelimiary
sketches and swatches.
24
Design project: Color schemes--Split complimentary
Portfolios, resumes, job sources, contracts.
Dec. 1 Rendering--Work on Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead and any other
portfolio projects.
3
DESIGN PROJECT # 5--Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
and discussion of FSU Costume Designs and Design/Technology Exhibit.