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Costume Design
and
Makeup
Costumes help us distinguish a
character’s status by adhering to
stereotype notions of what is appropriate
to each individual’s identity
The Functions of Costume Design
The Costume Designer’s Skills
Working Plans and Procedures
Realizing the Designs
The Costume Designer and the Actor
time and place
social and economic status
occupation
lifestyle
metaphor, symbol, or allegorical concept
mood and atmosphere
convention / exaggeration
character relationships
importance of characters
development of the dramatic action
variety and unity
alteration of the actor’s appearance
changes in the 1960’s
The Functions of Costume Design
The Costume Designer’s Skills
Working Plans and Procedures
Realizing the Designs
The Costume Designer and the Actor
Visual artists --to communicate ideas to others through sketches
Tailors and seamsters --to envision the garments
Must be well grounded in
social and cultural history
(including the visual art, dance, and theatre)
Must be able to analyze characters in the same way that
actors do
The Functions of Costume Design
The Costume Designer’s Skills
Working Plans and Procedures
Realizing the Designs
The Costume Designer and the Actor
The Functions of Costume Design
The Costume Designer’s Skills
Working Plans and Procedures
Realizing the Designs
The Costume Designer and the Actor
The Functions of Costume Design
The Costume Designer’s Skills
Working Plans and Procedures
Realizing the Designs
The Costume Designer and the Actor
Catherine Zuber
Born~ 1951, London
Education~ Master of Fine Arts from Yale School of Drama
Broadway~ The Red Shoes, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, London Assurance,
The Sound of Music, Little Women, Doubt
Theatre~ Gordon Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse
Miscellaneous~ American Ballet Theatre, NY City Opera, Houston Grand Opera
Awards~ 4 consecutive Tonys (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
Catherine Zuber
South Pacific
Awake and Sing!
Catherine Zuber
The Coast of Utopia
The Light in the Piazza
Catherine Zuber
Famous for her exhaustive research
Makes precise garments to help characters convey their emotions
Insists on using garments that may be too small in size for the
audience to notice, because she believes that those designs could
help the actors/actresses identify and clarify their characters.
Catherine Zuber
Your task is to examine in close detail what is authentic,
always keeping in mind that truth is stranger than fiction.
(Designing costumes) combines building on what has already
been discovered but being creative and thinking of new ways
to look at the world.
The Cabinet of Dr. Calibari
Buried Child
The Good Woman of Setzuan
• It been considered as the actor’s responsibility.
• As a part of design on stage
• The Function of makeup
• The makeup plot
• Types of makeup
• Makeup materials
• Characterizes
• Aids expressiveness
• Indicate performance style
• The Function of makeup
• The makeup plot
• Types of makeup
• Makeup materials
• Sketches:
includes base color, liners,
eye shadow, powder, special
features
• The Function of makeup
• The makeup plot
• Types of makeup
• Makeup materials
• Painting_
color, highlights, shadows, other parts of the body
• Added plastic_
false noses, beards, wigs
• Prosthetic
• Three-dimensional elements
• The Function of makeup
• The makeup plot
• Types of makeup
• Makeup materials
• 1. Base:
composed of pigment suspended in an oily solution
Face, neck, ears, skin
• 2. Lines, highlights, shadows are applied over the base
• Beards and moustaches
• Hair coloration_
hair whitener, wigs
• Last: powdered
• Four categories:
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age groups
straight or character makeup
racial/ethnic types
special painted effects
• Costume and makeup aid the actor’s transformation
into the character.
References~
1. New York Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2008/10/08/200810-08_frank_langella_is_the_man_for_all_season.html
2. Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Zuber
3. Waveland Press, Inc.:
http://www.waveland.com/Titles/Cunningham-MG.htm
4. IBDB:
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=24742
5. The Metropolitan Opera:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/photos/gallery.aspx?
id=7868
6. LIFE Magazine:
http://cache3.assetcache.net/xc/81583206.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9C
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