Costume Production
The Costume Shop technician who uses muslin over a dress form to create the shapes needed to build a costume.
What is a cutter/draper?
What theatre job is at the top of the hierarchy? They provide the money for the production and have the power to approve/disapprove anything.
Producer
This is a smaller division of an act of a play, according to setting.
What is a scene?
The first step in the design process.
What is reading the script?
A sample created out of inexpensive material like muslin to check fit, function, or proof of concept.
What is a mock-up?
What theatre job is in charge of creating the vision for the play? They give the actors their blocking and make sure all designers are on the same page.
Director
The person ultimately in charge of guiding a production’s concept.
What is the director?
What each designer must fully understand to successfully design a play. Who, What, When, Where, Why?
A quick drawing, not necessarily to scale, showing a designer’s initial ideas.
What is a sketch?
A costume call to test of the actor wearing costume pieces in various stages of assembly for the costumer to tailor them to that actor.
What is a fitting?
Who is in charge of the production during the performances? They make sure actors are where they are supposed to be and call all cues.
Stage manager
The revelation of important background information in a script.
What is exposition?
This step is used to explore your resources by writing down as much historical, social, psychological, demographic, and geographic information as possible to understand the culture of your design.
What is Research?
This costume document is a large binder (or several) with all information regarding costumes, where they were purchased, what materials they are being made of, where they are rented from, and what they should look like.
What is a bible?
Who is in charge of creating the technical components such as costumes, lights, set, sound, etc.
Designers
This is the central idea of a play. It is often the lesson or moral the audience should take away.
An artistic drawing, in color, revealing many details about the design.
What is a rendering?
Changing an actor from one costume to another backstage in a relatively short period of time.
What is a quick change?
Who is in charge of making sure set pieces and props are taken on and off the stage for each scene?
Run crew
This is the event that sets the action in motion.
What is inciting incident?