Description of Characters and their costumes

Fairy costume designs.

Titania’s costume
The costume has plenty of decoration added with a range of colours such as pink, lilac purple and yellow satin pieces. The materials used for the multi-coloured pieces have been ripped in long thing strips which are separate; these have each been tacked loosely onto the netting of the skirt around the waist lines. There are lots of individual different coloured roses which have each been attached to the neckline which helps add detail to the costume. Each of the leaves are different shades of green such as olive colours; these add more colour and detail to help compliment the different colours on the shirt, also there will be coloured jewels which will be put on the bodice to match the head dress. After this, the bodice may be sprayed one it has had more progress. The head dress will be made so it’s very decorated and pretty. She will be wearing some simple ballet shoes and tights which will be dyed to match the shades on the skirt part of the costume. The make up for Titania will be designed by the make-up team and it will fit to the colour scheme on the costume. The costume will be made sure that it will be sewn securely so the wearer of the costume is confident in it on stage. 

Pease Blossom
This costume will be decorated with leaves around the neckline and roses the colours of purples and lilac. There will also be a larger rose in the middle of all the rest of them. The costume will be made sure it will be sewn very tightly together so the person wearing it will feel comfortable and safe in it. Pease Blossom will also have coloured tights so match some of the roses on her costume. The make-up will be sparkly and pretty which will be designed by the team. The shirt of the costume is made from netting which flares out from the waist.

Mustard Seed
For this costume there will be a particular colour scheme of Gold, Mustard and Lemon; these will all be seen by looking at the roses. The idea of having this scheme of colours is that it fits to the name and idea of the fairy ‘Mustard Seed’. She will be wearing gold tights to go with the rose colours and will wear some ballet shoes when performing to add to the costume and the fairy idea. The makeup for this fairy with also be gold and glittery which will stand out just like the costume.

Cobweb
Her costume will be dark colours so it fits with the name ‘Cobweb’ and the idea of spiders. The base of the costume will be the colour white and there are black, white and silver strands on the netting bit of the skirt. The neckline of the bodice will have small bits of black netting from one end to the other. The fairy will wear black tights with Gothic makeup which will be designed by the makeup team; she will also wear black ballet shoes. The whole idea of this fairies costume is to be dark and gloomy.

Pictures will be added of each costume!

Step to step on how to construct a leaf!

At first I used a template to help me with the shape. I then used the leave shape that I drew to cut out each shape separately by using the material scissors. I made sure that I did not use these when cutting out my paper shape as this would make them blunt for when I needed to cut the materials out. Next I had started to sew around each leaf shape whilst making sure that I had left a gap so I would be able to turn it inside out for my next step of constructing. Once I had done this, I then hand sewn the gap together at the top of each leaf to make it much more secure and give the leaf its look of completion. 

Step to step on how to construct a rose!

Firstly, by using the material scissors, I cut out a long strip of fabric of either the colour of yellow, pink or purple. I then folded this in half, length ways, and then started to hand sew a running stich all the way along the bottom edge of the strip of material. Once I had done this, I then step by step folded a small bit of material and then sewn at the bottom of this a few times to hold it in place. I kept doing this slowly and carefully until the material had all been folded right up to the end. The finish product should look like a well-made rose and should be obvious that when someone looks at it that they know what it’s supposed to be.

Pictures will be added!

Costume Construction Evaluation

Throughout a number of weeks we have all been working on a costume of our own to be used in the production of Midsummer Nights Dream. These costumes will be worn in a specific scene in our schools Rock Challenge which is showing in February as well as June or July. The costumes that we are making are for the little fairies that dance and act however there are also four main fairies called Titania, Mustardseed, Peaseblossom and Cobweb, the costumes for these are in process of making.


I got given a netted skirt with elastic around the waste line and was the colour of pink. However I added another skirt underneath to make it look more plumpy, eye catching and attractive. I then chose three different coloured materials of Light pink, Hot pink and Pale yellow.Once I had chosen the colours I then cut little snips into the edge and ripped downwards in a thin straight line. This causes a more ragged and fairy effect to the skirt. To attach these pieces I folded a couple of them in half, each a different colour, and sewed over and over a few times onto the elastic waistband until I was certain that all pieces were sewn on tightly and securely. I repeated this all the way around the skirt. I then got given a Green leotard and purple tights which contrast as well as match with the colours on my skirt. For extra decoration I added some leaves and a couple of roses onto the edge of the skirt which helped for the skirt to stand out more. For a finished effect to my skirt, on every piece of thin material, I cut the bottom edges onto a pointed smooth shape so its more fairy like. 
My next step was to add a bit of decoration on to my leotard so I gathered a few dark green and light green leaves and sewed them onto the top of the leotard and also added a purple rose on top of the leaves so this matched my skirt nicely. 
When making the costumes, we had to be sure that they wouldn't be as eye catching as the other four main fairies, especially Titania's costume. 
Here is a picture of my finished skirt...more are going to be added soon! 

The Christmas Concert

In the evening on the 7th of December our performing arts class performed a dance at the Christmas concert. We didn't have much time to rehearse for the concert as it was quite short notice that we were told we would be performing therefore we chose to do the same dance and singing piece that we performed at the MSH charity talent event. We decided to do this because we knew it very well as hadn't been long since we last performed it, also it is a very upbeat dance therefore it will be very enjoyable for the audience to watch. Kelly, Chloe and Katie and Laura-Anne were the four singers, Laura-Anne sang in the middle of the song whilst dancing and the rest all sang at the very beginning before everyone else came on stage dancing. Some of the dancers found it harder to move around the stage as it was smaller than the one that we performed on originally however we did manage.


The rehearsals for this didn't take too long as we did not have to choreograph because we knew it already so when it finally got the the evening of the concert we felt very confident with it all. Each of us all arrived at the school about half an hour before the show started and went to the drama studio to have a quick run through of the performance and to get us ready for the performance. We didn't have to worry about doing our hair and make-up there as we had already done this at home so it gave us more time to practice the dance and for the singers to go through their lyrics. It eventually came to our turn on stage as we were the last group on before the interval where all the audience could get their refreshments and stand up for a while, this was good for us as we had enough time to prepare ourselves before hand. As we all went behind the curtains on the stage, we could hear us being introduced and i felt very nervous however it was quite exciting too. The singers then started singing and we all came on all jumpy and upbeat, each of us had to make sure that we had very high energy levels and were smiling throughout. When it came to the end we all the bowed to the audience and ran of stage very pleased with ourselves. Personally I think that I performed the dance better this time rather than the first time at the talent concert.