Costume coordination
Costume coordination is a method of dressing actors, employees or a person or group for theatrical productions and any venue requiring a fully realized character.
Sometimes coordinators may have a small budget to augment the existing stock or alter it for production needs.
[citation needed] Many theatres with smaller budgets regularly reuse existing stock, especially older companies with large costume warehouses.
These specific locations are places like, the Red Carpet, Engagement photos, Music Awards, VMA's, Venice Film Festival, and the Grammy's.
A few movies to think about and idealize are, Cinderella where there were much patients and dedication with the amounts of fabric used and the number of designers that worked on the dress.
A few others, Mad Max Fury World, the designer received an Oscar for creating the costume for the character who Imperator Furiosa,; Atonement, where the green dress worn in the film was to illustrate jealousy and temptation.
One other film would be Kill Bill, where the character The Bride played a strong roll and needed an even stronger costume to go with it.
For an example, the film where, Marilyn Monroe wore a white halterneck dress standing over a subway vent and how it became so popular because how beautiful it was or how correctly it was worn.
To go through the list of top designs more, The Matrix where they wore trench coats and shades to build a serious character.
One famous and popular film mentioned would be Cleopatra, where the designer Renle made very creative and unique costumes.
[4] There are many famous designers that are left behind the scene and aren't always recognized for their work but some have significantly made it into the spotlight.
She has her own website that features her designs in films like, Saints and Strangers, Cape Town, The 51st State, Strongbow, The book of Negroes and the list goes on.
This website talks about Carin's designs along with her relationships with directors; this is numerously stated in other research, mentioning the connection between the two.
It also talks about her versatile style with being about to design costumes for commercials and also for period movies that takes research.
Again there is a lot of research costume designers done to make a perfect character; visiting places that are still standing, learning habits of the culture, collecting photos and so on.
She continues after each section of telling what costume designer does along with providing assignments to teachers for students.
This book doesn't just give information and photos about Costumes but also the stage and the setup to help with bringing characters to life.
This book has more pictures than words but it helps to create the understanding of a scene, story, and character.
Before a movie or play is produced, designers read scripts to identify the era in which the piece is taken place, this helps to get started on their first sketch.
