A pre-dress parade is where, to do an initial check of the costumes as a group, they are put on manequins and presented, usually, to the 'visual' team (in this case the tutors) to determine if anything needs changing or is obviously wrong that stands out and needs to be altered. This not only saves time at the dress parade and gives more time for any glaring mistakes to be remedied but also means that by the time the dress parade comes around and the actors are wearing there costumes as they are presented there will not only be less alterations to do, but there will be less chance for any extreme last minute changes.
Our pre-dress parade began at ten this morning and it was decided that we would go through the costumes in order of character, starting with the lovers, then going through the Athenians and fairies, and then the mechanicals.
There were a lot of changes to be made, the majority of them minor. The major changes were the wedding suits and Philostrates costume. Thankfully the wedding suit issue was easily resolved as there were two suits that were right that fitted from the costume store - we now have two cream pinstripes for the lovers that were made for previous productions that had not yet been put in the store. The small changes were mainly to things like ties, jewellery and shoes, nothing too drastic.The fairies are now having some of the same moss that is being used in the wigs added to the texture to give them more texture, but on the whole the fairies were very well recieved but the tutors would like them to look a bit more magical.
With that in mind, when we finished one of our second year helpers Melissa approached me about an effect she had used on a precious project in mixing metalic paint with liquid latex and offered to show me it in the hopes that it would be a solution. She brought me down two samples within two minutes and they were perfect, textural and interesting and fitting with the effect that I wanted. We showed them to head of year Rebecca and she immediately approved it. Melissa will now be directly assisting maker Helena with Titania's costume, and she will also be taking over Oberons costume so that maker Danielle will have more time to focus on the wedding dress for Hippolyta.
After this I had a double page of notes on things that need changing. After I met with Jess, Grace, Sarah and Oliver and we made a list of hires, buys and alterations that now need adding to out to do list.
I then spent the afternoon working on the body suits.
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