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?
In commercial theatre, these people provide the money for the production and have the power to approve/disapprove anything.
What is a Producer?
This is the most vital aspect of any collaboration. It can be visual, verbal, or written.
What is communication?
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?
This person creates the overall artistic vision for a production.
Who is the Director?
The person manages all areas of production: Costumes, Lighting, Scenic, Sound, and Media.
What is the Production Manager?
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?
This event allows a performer to try on costume pieces, which gives information to the designer and technicians alike.
What is a fitting?
This person is in charge of the production during the performances. They make sure actors are where they are supposed to be and call all cues.
Who is the Stage Manager?
What is a note?
The revelation of important background information in a script.
What is exposition?
This step is used to explore historical, social, psychological, demographic, and geographic information related to the play you are designing.
What is Research?
This costume document is essential to organization. It is typically a large binder (or several) with all the information regarding costumes.
What is a bible?
These theatre artists develop the visual and aural world of a play, according to the director's concept.
Who are Designers?
This is the correct response to a stage manager saying, "five minutes to places!"
What is, "Thank you, five!"
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?
These folks work backstage and make sure set pieces and props are where they need to be.
Who is the Run Crew
The three core resources that drive a production are time, labor, and this third thing.
What is MONEY?
This is the event that sets the action in motion.
What is inciting incident?
This is the week of rehearsal when all design elements are combined in reality for the first time.
What is Tech?