Beauty and the Beast Costumes

For my colleges production of Beauty and the Beast this year, I designed the costumes for the main characters of Lumiere, Cogsworth and Babette. I also constructed the textiles elements mainly from upcycling old garments, and with an extremely tight budget...

Costume Design Board:

 Babette:

For Babette, the feather duster's costume, I merged the idea of traditional Victorian maid and modern French romance/attraction, so the garment included tempting cuts and hemlines but with traditional trims of frills and inclusion of an apron, etc... As she is quite a sexual, seductive character, I used quite a provocative pleather fabric for the skirt with a thigh-high slit. As the enchanted objects have to transform back to their original human state, I created a Velcroed waist belt of feather boas which sat of her hip as this is where the actresses main movement came from in characterisation.

Lumiere:

After designing Lumiere's costume for the suave man he is, I was able to create the god suit-like garment, one of my favourite aspects being that the actor would be able to use their hands still as a lot of other costume designs for this character don't allow. I created flame ruffles in the cuffs but decided to have the main frame of the candelabra going across the shoulders. However, there were a lot  technical difficulties rigging this up and I ended up deciding to have it lower down on the back. The transformable parts of this costume were the candles.

Cogsworth:

 Originally, I was set to play Cogsworth in this production but I had to pull out, so I initially started designing a costume for myself and my characterisation of the enchanted object. But when someone else took over my role, I had to rethink aspects of the design. Without using a sandwich-board-like structure, I tried to create the shape of a clock, using a grandfather clock as inspiration with the pendulum the length of the body and face as the actual clock. In the transformation, the entire bodice comes off, head pieces and key for back... This was a more quirky costumes with elements such as clock handles as a moustache.

Tiny Sculptures

Some AMAZING sculpture work from http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/02/takahiro-iwasaki/ ...truly remarkable and extremely intricate! I absolutely love these pieces, the concentration and skill that went into creating these must have been immense!

Chicago Lighting Illustration

This is a section of my 3D final design illustration for my Chicago and Tom Kirk themed/inspired lighting installation. The image to the left is just the outline, but the image on the right is the full colour version within which I used many different mediums. Including Letraset pens and water colour paints.

Chistery - Flying Monkey Puppet Design Illustration

 Pencil sketch, fine liner and water colour. My design illustration for Chistery the flying monkey puppet

AS Level 3D Design 'Chistery' puppet :D

My final prototype product for 3D Desgin AS course. I had the brief of 'intricate structures' and used handspring puppet company's work as inspiration ( http://www.handspringpuppet.co.za/ ) to create a puppet version of the monkey character 'Chistery' in Wicked the musical (my own interpretation) ( http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Chistery ) :)

'The Gut Girls'

Prop aspects for AS level drama performance of 'The Gut Girls' by Sarah Daniels. Bloody table cloths on blocks to resemble the Deptford gutting sheds and chop-able meat joint (made from foam with Velcro between chops for a meat-cutting sound (also binding the joint)).