The production designer as a part of the team

           A scheme of the team of positions collaborated in theater which is also valid for most performing arts. The image is taken from Costume and Make-up (Holt, M.,1988). In smaller production a costume designer is also charged with the creation of set design.

“Designers, more than any other members of the production team, need to discover the largest amount of possibilities in every  script and find many visual statements that are true to the play so they can absorb  and assimilate all the ideas the director, actors, and other designer have about the play” (Ingham, R., 1992 )
   

           In order to develop these options, costume designers should attend a certain amount of meetings and establish certain amounts of relations with other professionals within the field, some of which are part of the working team, other - not. Here's a rough rough summary of the communications and there incomes which the costume designer should maintain during each stage of the production process. 

Pre-production Period:

• Participate in the earliest stages of discussions with the director and the other designers in the production (if there are other designers). Clear some initial base on which the designer continue his work alone
• Contact a manufacture team which is chosen by him(cutters, sewers, ect.) or a company which could provide a manufacture team.
• Select and correspondent a company to buy the materials and borrow some additions (wigs, accessories, etc.)for the garment from;

Production Period:

• Communicate with the actors to present the clothes
• Attend every activity during the production (rehearsals) because because some changes (also in the costumes)often need to be made.
• Maintain constant communication with every member of the team

Post-production Period:

• Dry cleaning agencies to clean the costumes

References:
Holt, M. 1988. Costume and Make-Up. Oxford: Phaidon