Main Project - idea

          My main project is focused on costume design as a fragment of performances which are much or less financially restricted. The research question is:
 How could the budget restrictions of a performance to develop the costume designer’s imagination?
Subject of study:

       The main focus of this project is the creative side of the costume design profession, and how it could be developed and restricted in the terms of the production’s budget. The research will explore live musical and dance performances and discuss various different ways to achieve a similar effect using a restricted budget The practical work will include a recreation of costumes for a classic musical production with a very limited budget. 

Research aim(s):

To analyze the psychological influence of stage costume on the audience’s perception.

To research the ways for different stage costumes to communicate with the observers.

To show different strategies to improve the effect of costumes.

To present the current organizational problems of a production, which may appear in terms of the size and allocation of budget.

The overall aim is to determine whether the low budget is serving as a limitation or a stimulation of costume designer’s creativity

Research objectives(s):

To complete 3 case studies of dance productions in Nottingham, including questionnaires in order to collect, explore, discover and test a broad variety of costume techniques, materials and ways to apply to my practical work .

To discuss and test “Do it Yourself” techniques shown on internet sources such as websites, blogs and youtube.

To look at the relationship between costume techniques used and the budget given and to conduct interviews with 2 designers.

I shall utilize the skills from my backstage experience as an assistant in “Embody” and my work experience as a dance performer in “Brain Bug” in order to build reflective analysis and conclusions.

I shall also try to become involved with the costume design in Brain Bug or another production during the project.

To recreate 2 costumes from a classical musical production with minimum amount of budget and test their impact by 1 questionnaire and interview with the same designers.