Costume Making for Film and TV for 15 - 17 Year Olds - Nottingham Trent University

Description

Explore the full journey of a costume: from script to screen. This intensive one-week course offers a hands-on introduction to the costume department in film and television. It’s ideal if you’re interested in finding out what it’s like to work behind the scenes on a TV or film project to bring characters to life. It’s also useful if you are considering further studies and wish to start your portfolio with a unique and creative project. Topics include historical pattern cutting, costume breakdown, bloodwork, script analysis, on-set tools and techniques and industry training pathways, to create an inspired garment tailored to a character. On this course you’ll design and create a character, producing a piece for a costume that could be used in a scene on screen. You’ll create a costume for your character whether it’s for a sailor, a medieval knight or a gun slinging cowboy, considering the costume breakdown realism of the piece, giving it a history and aiding in the character development. Working from an industry style brief, you’ll design a character to create your pieces for and provide them with a backstory. Observing professional costume maker’s work, you'll learn about the process they go through in the development of a character, from initial sketches to a finished piece. During the course you will: • Learn how to pattern cut and make a historical garment. • Understand how to use different textile manipulations and styling techniques to bring a costume to life. • Experience different techniques used to breakdown and age a costume. • Understand bloodwork and have hands on experience creating an industry standard wound on a costume. • Gain an understanding of how to create a costume from a sketch. • Build your knowledge of what a costume department looks like in film and tv and all the job roles within. • Add to your portfolio a complete with an aged historical piece, textile manipulations and bloodwork. • Understand the avenues to follow to pursue a career in film and tv. • Consider how to create a believable costume or prop, whether based in reality or fantasy. By the end of the course, you will have created and aged a historically inspired garment tailored to a character, gained insight into costume workflows and received one-on-one guidance on your own design concept. You’ll also leave with experience of working with various industry materials using a variety of different tools and techniques, with lots of images to add to your portfolio.

What's included in the price?

This course will be delivered in person on Nottingham Trent University city campus. Your course fees cover the cost of studies and include great benefits such as the use of our modern library and free use of the IT equipment and software on the campus during your course. You will also need to bring with you: • A note pad and pen. • A sketchbook (A4 or A3). • A mobile phone or camera for taking photos - useful but not essential. • Old clothing to wear on the breakdown and bloodwork days, as you will get messy. • Optional: you can bring any sewing supplies or accessories to include anything you’d like to work with. On successful completion of the course you will receive a certificate of attendance, which will further enhance your CV.

Cancellation policy

Medium - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 4 weeks before the course starts

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