Edexcel GCSE Drama: Designing Drama

STEP 4 Confirming your costume designs For your designs to be agreed at the final design meeting, they need to be at final design stage themselves. This means that you need to produce quality designs that are your best work. You don’t need to be a great artist, but you do need to take time and care. Rehearsals will be well underway now. You should take your final design ideas into the rehearsal room and check if there are any new developments that affect you. For example, a character might need an additional garment such as a cloak to hide something under. Can you include this in your design? 1 If you have a number of designs that you like, try to bring it down to two. Just one is ideal. Completing the table below should help you to decide which costume is the most effective. Remember that your design needs to contribute to meeting the artistic intentions of the whole group. Check with the other designers that colour palettes work together and that the costumes will suit the proposed set and lighting. Extract: Period, mood, style and genre? Compatible with other design elements? Suits social and economic background? Suits personality/ character? Suitable for the space and actor’s comfort and safety? Approximate costings, including accessories and make-up Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N 2 Annotate your chosen sketch to help explain colour, fabric texture and finish. 3 Even if you will not be making your garment from scratch, it is useful to apply swatches to the design. These will help your fellow group members to see the ‘look’ you are aiming for. ASSESSMENT CHECK In reviewing and selecting your designs, you are working towards AO4: ‘Analyse and evaluate your own work.’ DESIGN TIP AO4 is tested in the written exam, but this step will give you excellent practice in the key skills of analysis and evaluation. LOOK HERE Pages 72–81 will help you to create and document your costume design. THE WITCH MOTHER Chapter 6 Component 2: Designing for the Performance from Text 188