Costume Design Basics
When an actor is brought in to try on potential costume items.
What is a costume fitting?
This design element connects emotions to different visuals and has a wheel that helps to categorize various components of the element.
What is color?
This element has to do with the lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
Ms. Wasman's favorite cartoon that is featured in her slides presentation every day.
What is Peanuts?
Red, Blue, and Yellow fall into this category on the color wheel.
What are primary colors?
When a character puts on clothing quickly in the middle of the performance.
What is a quick change?
2D images in a geometric, naturalistic, or abstract pattern.
What is shape.
How much the stage is filled. Either positive or negative.
What is space?
Ms. Wasman's favorite snack.
What is popcorn?
Green, Orange, and Purple all fall into this category on the color wheel.
What are secondary colors?
A collection of costumes stored in a theatre.
What is a costume stock?
The 3D version of shapes. Can be geometric, naturalistic, or abstract. Objects with volume and mass.
What is form?
Designers must study the _______ _______ to ensure that the props that are used for a show are historically accurate.
What is time period?
The popular clothing pattern that Ms. Wasman hates.
What are stripes?
Green, Blue, and Purple. Usually fade into the background and do not stand out.
What are cool colors?
To get this answer correct, name at least one way thing that costumes can reveal about an character.
Job/hobbies
Time period
Socio-Economic Status
Personality
This element of design is the path a point takes; used to create shapes, patterns, or direction. It helps to focus the audience's eyes towards a certain part of the stage. It can be straight, curvy, rigid, etc.
What is line?
New inventions, universe-specific props (think Lightsabers from Star Wars), Who uses the prop, and How the prop is used are all ways in which props and costumes are made to be ____________.
What is memorable / iconic?
Ms. Wasman's birthday.
What is April 20th?
Red, Orange, and Yellow. They stand out against dark backgrounds and are usually used as colors on warning signs.
What are warm colors?
A list of costumes that the designer likes and a breakdown of every costume piece are both things that you would find on a _________ __________.
What is a costume list?
The surface quality of a material (smooth, rough, soft, shiny, etc.).
What is texture?
This candy prop was used in the movie "E.T." and saved it from extinction.
What are Reese's Pieces?
The sport that Ms. Wasman was a part of for 8 years when she was in school.
What is jump rope? (Gold Star to anyone who knows the name of the jump rope team).
Mixing together a primary and secondary color creates this type of color.
What are tertiary colors?